Games Like Asteria

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

Why similar: Sandbox 41.5%, Crafting 23.8%, Adventure 10.7%, Platformer 8%, 2D 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for 2D sandbox mining and crafting, offering a massive amount of content and progression similar to Asteria.

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: Sandbox 44.3%, Crafting 24.6%, Adventure 10.8%, Indie 8.9%, Action 7%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential sci-fi sandbox game that offers deep exploration, mining, and crafting across a vast procedurally generated universe.

Dive into an epic adventure alone or with friends! Explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame fearsome monsters, build and defend your village. Craft powerful weapons, master magical spells, and transform an planet into the cradle of a new civilization!

Why similar: Sandbox 33.1%, Crafting 24.5%, Platformer 17.2%, Indie 9.9%, Adventure 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A deep 2D sandbox game featuring complex crafting, creature capturing, and extensive combat mechanics in a pixel-art world.

Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.

Why similar: Sandbox 36.3%, Crafting 24.5%, Adventure 11.3%, Indie 8.5%, Platformer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival-crafting game that captures the same 2D aesthetic and focus on resource gathering in hostile environments.

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: Sandbox 42.6%, Crafting 32.3%, Indie 7.6%, Action 6.5%, 2D 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game where you must build defenses and mine resources to survive against increasingly difficult alien threats.

Shards of Azuria is an isometric, craft and build RPG. Create a character and a new world, then start your adventure by waking up in town. You are greeted by the locals of Azuria and begin to find your way around.

Why similar: Crafting 29.1%, Sandbox 26.6%, Adventure 19.6%, Indie 11.6%, Action 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: An action-RPG sandbox that blends crafting and combat in a 2D world, offering a similar gameplay loop to Asteria.

SteamWorld Dig is back! Dig deep, gain riches and unearth the terrors of the underworld in this platform mining adventure influenced by classic Metroidvania style games.

Why similar: Platformer 37.7%, Adventure 21.4%, Indie 18.2%, Action 15%, 2D 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A polished mining-focused platformer that emphasizes movement, exploration, and upgrading your gear to reach deeper underground.

WindForge is a side-scrolling block-building game where you explore hostile skies in an ever-changing Steampunk world. Everything you see can be created or destroyed, creating an RPG without barriers that rewards creative problem solving and improvisation.

Why similar: Sandbox 33%, Crafting 22.7%, Indie 15.3%, Platformer 10.5%, Action 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A steampunk-themed sandbox game with destructible environments and a focus on building flying ships for exploration.

Platformines is a unique 2D platformer packed with exploration, RPG and shooter elements, set in a vast 16-bit underground world! Customise your character, master all difficulty levels and literally jump to the top of the leaderboards to prove your skills!

Why similar: Platformer 47.3%, Action 22.1%, Indie 19.8%, 2D 5.8%, Adventure 5%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling platformer that emphasizes exploration, loot collection, and character customization in a dangerous 2D world.

This is a 2D crafting survival sandbox game. You will be able to explore a huge 2D side-view world, building houses, crafting tools, weapons and armour from the resources you collect. There is a day/night cycle and each night many dangerous monsters can be found and defeated.

Why similar: Sandbox 42.4%, Adventure 18.9%, Indie 17.2%, Action 16%, 2D 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox survival game that focuses on crafting, exploration, and combat in a variety of alien biomes.

Masterspace is a game about mining, creating and exploring, featuring fully destructible environments and spaceships that allow you to travel between different planets. Use explosives to mine metal ores or watch your newly constructed home get smashed to pieces by a meteorite impact.

Why similar: Sandbox 34.5%, Crafting 25.4%, Action 20.4%, Indie 19.7%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed sandbox game featuring voxel-based destruction and building, allowing for significant environmental manipulation.

Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.

Why similar: Sandbox 38.8%, Crafting 20%, Indie 10.2%, Platformer 10.2%, Adventure 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi sandbox survival game that focuses heavily on mining, exploration, and building bases on dangerous alien planets.

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: Sandbox 83.9%, 2D 16.1%

Why You'll Like It: A progression-based crafting game that starts with simple survival and expands into space exploration and advanced technology.

Put your mechanical skills to the test in a physics-based sandbox where ingenuity and creativity are the ultimate key to survival. Construct fantastical machines, gather resources, acquire new technologies to battle dangerous enemies and use your imagination to shape your world.

Why similar: Sandbox 34.3%, Crafting 30.4%, Indie 12.8%, Adventure 9.3%, Action 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based building and crafting game that challenges you to create machines to survive in a 2D sandbox world.

SteamWorld Dig is an action-adventure puzzler with strong Metroidvanian influences set in the SteamWorld Universe. You’ll need to dig deep into the earth, gather resources to upgrade your tools and abilities, take on enemies, solve challenging puzzles and uncover the secrets to save a dying town.

Why similar: Platformer 47.8%, Adventure 16.1%, Indie 15.9%, Action 9%, 2D 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: The original mining-focused platformer that shares the core loop of digging, upgrading, and exploring underground caverns.

Crashed and alone on a world mankind tried to leave behind, Darkout challenges players to survive on Illuna, in harsh, procedurally generated biomes, utilizing the game’s sandbox features to build shelters, craft weapons, and research new technologies.You are not alone.

Why similar: Sandbox 38.2%, Crafting 22.8%, Platformer 12.2%, Indie 9.2%, Adventure 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox survival game that features a unique lighting mechanic and a dark, sci-fi atmosphere similar to Asteria.

Momentum-driven old school platformer with modern graphics & physics with a focus on exploration. Offers precision and on later levels a lot of speed. Each world brings new abilities & gameplay

Why similar: Indie 35.8%, Adventure 35.5%, Action 28.7%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric 2D adventure game that combines platforming with sci-fi elements and exploration.

A fast-paced 2D handcrafted metroidvania with strange sci-fi environments. Something is roaming the halls, watching your every move.

Why similar: Platformer 51.5%, Adventure 19.5%, Action 18.3%, 2D 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi metroidvania that emphasizes exploration, platforming, and combat in a detailed 2D pixel-art world.

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: Sandbox 43.3%, Crafting 26%, Adventure 11.9%, Indie 10.4%, Action 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game with voxel-based terrain manipulation that encourages exploration and creative building.

Run fast, soar through the air, and master your landings as you speed through procedural worlds to outrun the end of the universe, by yourself and with friends!

Why similar: Platformer 47.2%, Action 27.4%, Adventure 25.4%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced action game that emphasizes movement and parkour-style platforming.

Experience a fast-paced, single-player adventure mixing fluid motion, split-second decision making, stylized machine-age visuals, and a dynamic soundscape.

Why similar: Platformer 35.5%, Indie 22.2%, Adventure 22.1%, Action 20.3%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based platformer that focuses on unique movement mechanics and environmental puzzles.

A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.

Why similar: Sandbox 30.5%, Crafting 26.3%, Platformer 22.9%, Adventure 10.5%, Action 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: An automation-focused sandbox game that combines crafting and sci-fi progression with a focus on building efficient systems.

Pixelum is a whole world made up entirely from interactive pixels. Explore procedurally generated sandbox with advanced physics. Dig and mine, fight mobs, build bases, craft items, and progress throughout the pixel canvas!

Why similar: Sandbox 34.3%, Adventure 22.7%, Indie 20.6%, Action 17.6%, 2D 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox adventure game that focuses on crafting, exploration, and simulation elements.

Karma Knight is a fast paced 2D side-scrolling platform action game with stylish combat. Find hidden items in the stages, collect different spells, defeat the enemies as you gain more experience and enjoy the overall platform action game style.

Why similar: Indie 42.5%, Action 38%, Platformer 15.5%, 2D 4%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced 2D action platformer that provides the same level of movement intensity found in Asteria.

Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.

Why similar: Sandbox 51%, Crafting 26.9%, Adventure 11.3%, Indie 6.3%, Action 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based sandbox game that offers deep crafting and sci-fi exploration in a large, open environment.

Planet Cube is being invaded! Prepare to run, gun, jump and dash your way through an underwater science complex, collecting fire-power to turn the tables on a mysterious aggressor. This is high-speed adventuring set in a hand-crafted pixel art world, filled with precision platforming and thrills.

Why similar: Platformer 63.7%, Action 21.9%, 2D 14.4%

Why You'll Like It: A precision platformer with a sci-fi aesthetic that focuses on tight controls and challenging side-scrolling action.

Blast through the stars in this high-octane platformer-shooter!

Why similar: Action 42.1%, Crafting 41.4%, Indie 16.5%

A sandbox adventure where every pixel is physically and chemically simulated! Build intricate, fully functional machines from the pixels around you. Harvest, react, and manipulate all 118 elements to craft everything from simple tools to complex systems.

Why similar: Sandbox 45.9%, Crafting 37.6%, Action 5.7%, Adventure 5.4%, 2D 5.4%

Explore an interconnected world full of platforming challenges in this short metroidvania. Reach new areas by swinging from ceilings, throwing bombs, bouncing off spikes, and more. Examine dozens of artifacts, commune with forgotten gods, and piece together what happened to Auridia.

Why similar: Platformer 50%, Adventure 24.4%, Action 19%, 2D 6.5%

Fast paced 3D action platformer.

Why similar: Action 48.1%, Platformer 34.7%, Indie 17.2%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced 3D platformer that captures the high-speed action and movement-focused gameplay of Asteria.

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: Sandbox 42.9%, Crafting 33.8%, Adventure 16.1%, 2D 7.2%

BE FASTER. Take on the role of a corpo scav drone pilot, tasked with tearing through the decaying corpse of a world to salvage the remains of a powerful energy source. Master flight through hostile environments and deadly security measures in 100 precision platforming levels.

Why similar: Platformer 38.8%, Adventure 24.3%, Action 21.9%, Indie 11.7%, 2D 3.3%

Squirrel-based 2D platformer

Why similar: Platformer 34.6%, Indie 19.7%, Adventure 17.8%, Action 15.7%, 2D 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A precision platformer with a retro aesthetic that tests your movement skills in challenging 2D environments.

Enter the doomed world of Astria, a land destroyed by Cataclysm where all living things are dying. Play as Gwen, an Astrian willing to make his last move before everything ends.

Why similar: Platformer 55.6%, Action 18%, Adventure 15.8%, Indie 10.7%

From the creators of the award-winning Hyper Light Drifter comes the high-speed and gravity-bending world of Solar Ash.

Why similar: Sandbox 37.6%, Platformer 31.7%, Adventure 16.3%, Action 14.4%

Explore, craft, and survive in this Multiplayer RPG Platformer with permanent death! Featuring many Rogue-like elements, Magicite randomly generates each underground dungeon for you and your friends to delve deep into.

Why similar: Crafting 26.6%, Platformer 23.7%, Indie 14.9%, Adventure 11.6%, Sandbox 9.4%

Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.

Why similar: Platformer 42.2%, Indie 20.8%, Action 14.4%, Adventure 14.2%, 2D 8.3%

A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.

Why similar: Crafting 40.2%, Sandbox 31.5%, Adventure 15.8%, Action 6.3%, Indie 6.1%

Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.

Why similar: Sandbox 37.6%, Crafting 31.2%, Adventure 12%, Action 9.7%, Indie 9.4%

Classic 2D platforming that blends elements of: Nikola Tesla, puzzles, inventions, 1800's-era undead and a sprinkling of the maniacal Thomas Edison. Throw in a dash of randomly generating level sectors, a zesty squeeze of items and a pinch of indie love... Tasty!

Why similar: Adventure 50.9%, Indie 49.1%

A 2D space mining adventure. Mine exotic resources, unlock powerful equipment, and fend off relentless enemies to build an inter-dimensional portal, the last hope of salvation for your civilization.

Why similar: Crafting 59.5%, Adventure 17%, 2D 12.1%, Indie 8.2%, Action 3.3%

Stray Savior is a 2D action platformer packed full of lethal traps, precise jumps, and powerful bosses. Venture through the dystopian world with weapons and skills, to prove yourself and forge your own path.

Why similar: Platformer 39.7%, Adventure 20.4%, Action 18.6%, Indie 13.5%, 2D 7.8%

A precise momentum-based platformer that emphasizes exploration and navigation puzzles. Run and jump your way through a wide variety of obstacles and challenges as you explore an abandoned derelict freighter. Be careful: getting in is often easier than getting out!

Why similar: Platformer 53.6%, Action 17.7%, Adventure 17.2%, 2D 11.5%

Astronite is a 1bit metroidvania that combines action, exploration, puzzles and platforms. Recover the planet where you and yours lived before it was invaded by strange creatures.

Why similar: Platformer 34.4%, Adventure 22.9%, Indie 21.3%, Action 13.5%, 2D 8%

Stellar 2D is a retro style space arcade game, it's a 2D game in a 3D world. With an addictive, fast paced, casual game-play style.

Why similar: Indie 72.5%, Action 21.8%, 2D 5.7%

Craft your path in this innovative 2D platformer. Master the use of your own platform to explore the Forgotten World of Numbra and save the land and its inhabitants from an imminent threat. Do you have what it takes to survive in perilous Numbra?

Why similar: Indie 35.6%, Adventure 34.9%, Action 29.6%

Capsized is a fast paced 2D platformer focused on intense action and exploration. As a intrepid space traveler, your ship has crash landed on a mysterious alien planet. You must navigate through the perilous environment and fight off blood-thirsty creatures to save your crewmates and escape with your lives!

Why similar: Platformer 47.6%, Action 21.7%, Indie 21.7%, 2D 5.4%, Adventure 3.7%

KR-17 is a 32-bit, story-driven, side-scrolling action puzzle-platformer which follows the story of a military robot on a mission to subdue a rogue agent operating out of an installation on the planet Valiant. It will be the first in a multi-genre series of games centered around the story of Terrius, KR-17's home.

Why similar: Platformer 40%, Indie 21.7%, Action 19.6%, Adventure 18.7%

Just Get Through is a randomly generated platformer with roguelike elements. Featuring a destructible environment, sandbox mode, user-created levels, various gamemodes, hardcore mode, color palettes, deadly traps, explosions and more.

Why similar: Platformer 28%, Sandbox 20.8%, Indie 20.3%, Adventure 14.5%, Action 12.7%

Inspired by 16 and 32-bit classics, Gestalt: Steam & Cinder fuses tight 2D platforming and exhilarating combat with an engrossing, twist-laden narrative in a stunningly handcrafted steampunk world.

Why similar: Platformer 40.8%, Action 17.2%, Indie 17.2%, Adventure 15.1%, 2D 9.6%

A fast, brutal action roguelite with razor-sharp controls and insane build freedom. Fuse embers, magic cards, and gear into wildly overpowered combat styles — and break each run in a world consumed by the Ash Witch.

Why similar: Action 60.6%, Adventure 39.4%

Cosmos Bit is an old school metroidvania that will take you in an extraterrestrial world painted with the legendary Amstrad CPC's colour palette, reworked for modern devices. The game is enjoyable for both veterans and newbies of this genre!

Why similar: Platformer 34.4%, Action 21.7%, Crafting 21.3%, Adventure 12.2%, Indie 7.7%

Slip is a fast paced side scrolling platformer featuring a two color, swap mechanic. Using your two colors flee from Steve and his wretched purple beam through a multitude of obstacles and enemies. Slip combines the elegant simplicity of platforming with a polarity mechanic to create an easy to learn, but extremely difficult to master...

Why similar: Platformer 36.2%, Indie 35.2%, Action 28.6%

Beeftacular is a fast-paced platformer where you have to clean levels from rotten meat chunks as fast as possible. Jump your way through the level and use your attacks to hack all of them into pieces. Compare your speedruns with your friends and the world.

Why similar: Platformer 34.9%, Sandbox 32.1%, Indie 14.7%, Action 13.4%, 2D 4.9%

Loot, level up, and obliterate everything in your path. Astroloot is a sci-fi bullet heaven with deep ARPG systems, featuring a massive skill tree, deterministic crafting, and near-endless build possibilities.

Why similar: Crafting 61.2%, Action 19.7%, Indie 11.8%, 2D 7.3%

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

Why similar: Sandbox 44%, Crafting 27.2%, Adventure 12.3%, Action 11%, 2D 5.4%