- #1 XenoHaven
97% matchVery Positive82% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.1% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Base Building 9.1%, Automation 9%, Open World 8.8%
- #2 Prospector
96% matchMixed70% of 152 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 16.5% ★, Automation 14.1%, Sandbox 9.7%, Base Building 8.3%, Robots 7.9%
- #3 Space Trash Scavenger
96% matchVery Positive83% of 528 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Automation 15.6%, Sandbox 8.6%, Crafting 8%, Space 6.6%
- #4 Sandustry
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Open World Survival Craft 22.4% ★, Automation 16.1%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 8.5%, Base Building 8%
- #5 Nova Lands
94% matchVery Positive89% of 3,544 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 21.2% ★, Automation 17.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Base Building 9.3%, Robots 7.5%
- #6 ASTRONEER
93% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Open World 8.9%, Sandbox 8.8%, Space 8.4%, Base Building 8%
- #7 Cosmorists
92% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Stellar Roots
Windows
You find yourself completely alone on a different yet very familiar looking planet. Explore the planet, craft tools, fight enemies, and build bases! Do science to learn new technologies that will allow interplanetary travel and better tools at your disposal!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 8.4%, Base Building 7.4%
- #8 ForgeCraft
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Luminous Arts
Windows
Explore, craft, fight and develop an automated technological civilization complete with airships and robotic drones!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.8% ★, Steampunk 11.2% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Automation 10.7%, Open World 7.4%
- #9 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
91% matchVery Positive91% of 7,668 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Automation 14.5%, Base Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.6%, Crafting 7.8%
- #10 Eden Crafters
90% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 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: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Automation 17.2%, Sandbox 9.4%, Base Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.4%
- #11 Factory Survival
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Roman Software
Windows
Build and create automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 3D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally escape from creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Automation 21.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 8.2%, Sandbox 8%
- #12 SpiritBorn
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Highforge Studios
Windows
An open-world survival crafting RPG set among floating islands. Gather resources, craft powerful tools, unlock spirit abilities to soar between skybound realms and reclaim your lost godhood.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 9.2%, Sandbox 9.1%, Survival 8.5%
- #13 Golemcrafter
87% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Good Sheep Syndicate
Windows
Golemcrafter is a single-player survival crafting game where you, as a golem, explore a magical world, gather resources, build a base, harness the local wildlife, and craft powerful golems like yourself. Make friends, gain powers!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Automation 13.7%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.9%
- #14 FortressCraft Evolved!
88% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,066 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 31% ★, Automation 18.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 7.8%
- #15 Untethered
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: True Anomaly Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Untethered is a space survival-sandbox set in our own cosmic backyard. Explore zero-gravity environments, build and operate realistic space stations, and fight to stay alive in the unforgiving realm of deep space.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Automation 15.6%, Sandbox 11%, Base Building 8.5%, Survival 7.5%
- #16 The Planet Crafter
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 25.2% ★, Automation 12.7%, Base Building 9.7%, Sandbox 7.9%, Crafting 7.8%
- #17 Deus Mantle
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 1SPEED
Windows
Craft, build, fight monsters, discover new technologies and explore an infinite procedurally generated world! Delve into unknown worlds to uncover ancient secrets and return home.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Automation 14.8%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 8.8%, Base Building 8.4%
- #18 Necesse
83% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 36.9% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Automation 9.6%, Open World 7.7%, Crafting 7.6%
- #19 Space
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Neila Games
Windows
Stranded on a hostile alien world, you must gather resources, craft tools, and automate production to survive. Build a base, fend off deadly wildlife, and uncover ancient secrets in this immersive sci-fi survival adventure. Will you conquer the planet or succumb to its perils?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.6% ★, Automation 15.6%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 9%, Base Building 8.7%
- #20 Remains
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 323 reviews2021
Dev: SoloQ
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 9.2%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 8%
- #21 Robovival
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: JrmTheDev
Windows
Embark on a Scifi World in a Rocky Desert & Tundra Setting with Futuristic looking Vegetation and Trees. Where you will fight to Survive, loot enemies, Harvest objects for materials, Unlock Blueprints, Craft and Build Items to help you along your Journey / Adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.8% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Building 11%, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 10%
- #22 Moon Colony Crafter
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: InfinityCoders
Windows
Play as an astronaut on our moon in the future. Your task is to prepare the moon for future colonies by terraforming. Collect resources, explore procedurally generated caves, build buildings and create a second world for you and our earth.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 8.3%
- #23 Chocolate Factory
81% matchMixed56% of 152 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Automation 18.8%, Base Building 10%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 7.7%
- #24 Breathedge
80% matchVery Positive81% of 18,514 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.3% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Space 9.7%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 8.2%
- #25 Arcfactory
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SadMofrog
Windows
Factory automation meets megastructure. Explore an ancient space station in search of a buried star. Build automated factories and defend against a living and realigning station.
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Open World Survival Craft 18.6% ★, Sandbox 11.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Open World 9.7%
- #26 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,722 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 9%, Survival 8.8%
- #27 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 208 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits! The free prologue for the full game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Automation 19.2%, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 7.8%
- #28 Star Crafter
77% matchMostly Positive70% of 110 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
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: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Automation 14.1%, Base Building 9.1%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #29 Shamania
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Automation 13.2%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 10.3%, Open World 10.1%
- #30 TerraTech Worlds
78% matchMixed63% of 2,297 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Automation 11.2%, Sandbox 10.7%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 8.8%
- #31 Unhinged
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unifiq Games
Windows
Survive a brutal corporate death game on an alien planet. Craft and assemble components into machines and automated production systems. Harness power, cultivate exotic plants, brew herbal tonics and synthesize chaotic drugs, all while managing your sanity in a detailed mental simulation.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 9%, Survival 8.2%, Base Building 7.7%
- #32 Satisfactory
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 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 23.5%, Base Building 14.1%, Open World Survival Craft 13.4% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #33 Asynchronauts
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Puppetbucket Games
Windows
A zany single-player, open-world survival-crafting adventure game, set in space across a colorful planetary system. Explore the system at your own pace, leverage the unique properties and lifeforms of the planets, build bases and factories, and reveal the mystery of a vanished science colony.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Automation 16.5%, Base Building 9.3%, Sandbox 8.8%, Crafting 8.6%
- #34 Terra Taker
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dream Craft
Windows
Terra Taker is an open-world survival crafting game where you build megastructures to terraform a fantasy planet. Gather resources, build automated bases, and transform floating islands, tornadoes, snowfields, lava zones, and lightning-scorched lands into a new paradise for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Automation 16.2%, Sandbox 10.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.6%
- #35 PoliPlanet
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Open World Survival Craft 15.5% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 9.7%
- #36 AstroPlanet
73% matchMixed67% of 43 reviews2025
Dev: VIVA
Windows
AstroPlanet is a sandbox game where you find yourself in the role of an astronaut whose ship has crashed on a planet with an inhospitable atmosphere. Your task is not only to survive, but also to turn this world into a habitable place.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 8.3%
- #37 Red Planet: Survive
76% matchNegative12% of 49 reviews2017
Dev: Silent Parrot Studio
Windows
Red Planet: Survive is a first person survival game for Microsoft Windows. Surviving in the harsh conditions of the Red Planet will be hard, but if you are strong enough, you will succeed. Find the best way to survive, but be careful, since each wrong step will ensure your demise. The environment is your main enemy.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Base Building 8.5%, Sandbox 8.4%, Survival 7.5%, Crafting 6.9%
- #38 Blue Energy
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ROWAN FUTURE
Windows
100000 years after the apocalypse, a mysterious entity guides you to build a factory on a desert island...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Automation 17.3%, Sandbox 12%, Crafting 8.5%, Building 8%
- #39 Force of Nature
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 11.2%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 8.2%
- #40 Wreckborn
71% matchPositive96% of 27 reviews2025
Dev: Krystian Dobaczewski
Windows
Cleanse the system of pirates, destroy their bases and free the captives. On the asteroids, build a base, mining colonies, explore asteroids and extract resources needed for survival. Develop buildings, build defenses and turn the asteroid into a fortress.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Automation 15.9%, Sandbox 9.5%, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.4%
- #41 Super-Spatial
72% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Interline Studios LC
Windows
Explore, build, and master the art of automation. Build your base, discover colorful new worlds, and develop new technologies as you tame the far reaches of space and search for a way to return to Earth.
Why similar: Automation 13.2%, Sandbox 10.7%, Open World 10%, Base Building 9.8%, Space 9.1%
- #42 Drift: Space Survival
72% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 33.6% ★, Crafting 9.3%, Space 9.1%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #43 Candy Factory TD
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
Build a candy factory to defend against waves of candy creatures! A first-person tower defense factory building automation game. Manage productions, build candy turrets, expand the island, and beat the waves!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Automation 19.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #44 Life Not Supported
70% matchMixed67% of 173 reviews2023
Dev: YETIBYTES
Windows · Linux
You are the lone survivor orbiting a potential new home planet, tethered to what’s left of your ship. Gather nearby debris and assemble a make-shift vessel in an attempt to survive the harsh realities of space. Maybe you'll live long enough to uncover the truth behind the ship's malfunction...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 8.4%
- #45 StarRupture
67% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 25.2% ★, Automation 17.3%, Sandbox 9.7%, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 8.3%
- #46 Gravehollow
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silo Snowdash
Windows
Gravehollow is a survival RPG set in a restless world on the cusp of death. Hunt, scavenge, craft, build, and fight as friends and foes alike clash and pursue their own ends. Uncover why death refuses to release you, and what horrors your survival is awakening.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Sandbox 12%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.5%, Base Building 9.3%
- #47 Signs of Life
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 846 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Open World Survival Craft 38.9% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 8.3%, Building 6.4%
- #48 A Life Ashore
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: daggg3rPub: daggg3r studio
Windows
After a rough landing on a remote tropical island, turn survival into a life of your own. Observe the land, gather and salvage what it offers, build a dependable home, and settle into practical routines through rain, heat, and changing days.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Survival 11%, Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.6%
- #49 Breathedge 2
66% matchVery Positive87% of 1,680 reviews2026
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Survive on the edge of space! Craft and upgrade tools, scavenge resources, and save a galaxy gone completely off the rails. Can Ordinary Man save the galaxy with the help of the immortal Chicken and some duct tape?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Sandbox 11%, Survival 9.5%, Space 8.6%, Crafting 6.7%
- #50 Whisper of the Swallows
67% matchVery Positive87% of 207 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 8.9%, Base Building 8.8%
- #51 Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival
68% matchMixed68% of 849 reviews2023
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
TIME TRAVEL through history to BECOME GOD 🚀 Ride dinosaurs, forge tools, sail dunes, build a colony, siege castles, automate and fly, mine underground, launch to the moon, build a dyson sphere! An insane, unforgettable and revolutionary survival crafting base building open world adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Automation 16.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 7.8%
- #52 Starbound
68% matchVery Positive90% of 123,321 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 38% ★, Sandbox 14.9%, Crafting 7.8%, Space 7%, Survival 6.8%
- #53 Planet Explorers
69% matchMixed62% of 6,818 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Sandbox 17%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 8.5%, Survival 7.2%
- #54 GRAV
70% matchMixed47% of 6,922 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Survival 10.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 10.2%
- #55 VIFA
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NavySparkStudio
Windows
Vifa is a survival-building game where each hero character brings unique talents that change how you play. Team up with friends, craft and build your base, deploy worker bots to gather resources, and assemble powerful mechs to defend your home.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.5% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Base Building 11.5%, Robots 9.9%, Crafting 7.2%
- #56 Skyformer
64% matchMostly Positive79% of 96 reviews2026
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Automation 19.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 7.4%
- #57 Eldercraft: Mountaineers
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Derivative Synergistics
Windows
In this first-person, non-combat RPG, scale a vast fantasy mountain. Craft gear, survive the ascent, and forge your own routes up to lost treasures. Trade these treasures to buy and upgrade gear so that you can climb higher. Reach the peak and uncover the mystery of this teleporting mountain.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Sandbox 9.5%, Open World 9.4%, Survival 9.1%