- #1 Lightyear Frontier
97% matchVery Positive84% of 4,679 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Farming Sim 23.6%, Base Building 8.7%, Crafting 7%, Survival 5.6%
- #2 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: Base Building 19.4%, Survival 15.6%, Crafting 15.6%, Open World 14.2%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #3 Astrometica
96% matchVery Positive83% of 3,181 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.2% ★, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 11.8%
- #4 Solarpunk™
95% matchVery Positive82% of 4,341 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Farming Sim 19.5%, Base Building 8.6%, Crafting 6.8%, Survival 6.2%
- #5 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
94% matchVery Positive85% of 4,645 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Farming Sim 25.6%, Crafting 7.5%, Base Building 7.2%, Open World 6.7%
- #6 The Planet Crafter
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 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 44.6% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Aliens 8.7%, Survival 8.2%, Crafting 7.4%
- #7 Wildmender
93% matchVery Positive84% of 2,225 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Farming Sim 27.7%, Nature 12%, Base Building 7.5%, Survival 5.8%
- #8 Blossom: The Seed of Life
92% matchVery Positive88% of 1,019 reviews2026
Dev: Pebbledust GamesPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Open World Survival Craft 51.4% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 7.8%, Survival 7.8%
- #9 Among Trees
91% matchMixed68% of 2,233 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.7% ★, Survival 8.9%, Open World 7.7%, Base Building 7.2%, Crafting 6.9%
- #10 Under A New Sun
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 400 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: Open World Survival Craft 45.9% ★, Nature 10.3%, Survival 8.5%, Base Building 8%, Open World 7.7%
- #11 Above Snakes
90% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,990 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Piece by piece, create your own world in this relaxing Wild West-inspired worldbuilder. Craft, farm, hunt, build your base, and explore.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.4% ★, Base Building 9.7%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 8.4%, Survival 7.6%
- #12 Breathedge
89% matchVery Positive81% of 17,661 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 51% ★, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 8.5%, Crafting 6%, Sandbox 5.6%
- #13 Survival: Fountain of Youth
89% matchVery Positive85% of 4,480 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.8% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 8.9%, Crafting 7.7%, Open World 6.2%
- #14 Techtonica
87% matchMixed65% of 3,253 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Base Building 30%, Crafting 19%, Simulation 14.4%, Sandbox 13.7%, First-Person 11.7%
- #15 Planetary Planter
88% matchVery Positive87% of 52 reviews2022
Dev: Odd Gryphon EntertainmentPub: Earthbreak Games LLC
Windows
Planetary Planter is an open-world farming game where, instead of farming normal plants, you grow celestial bodies while exploring an alien world.
Why similar: Farming Sim 50.9%, Nature 15.6%, Simulation 12.9%, Crafting 8.3%, Exploration 6.7%
- #16 Island Beekeeper
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 186 reviews2026
Dev: Akuseru Studio
Windows
Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Farming Sim 21.1%, Base Building 7%, Survival 6.5%, Nature 6.3%
- #17 Len's Island
84% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,866 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 44.5% ★, Nature 15%, Survival 8.2%, Base Building 7.9%, Crafting 7.3%
- #18 StarRupture
84% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 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 46.6% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 9.1%, Open World 8.3%, Crafting 8.3%
- #19 Minicology
86% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Isaac DennerPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
You have crash-landed into a mini-verse of tiny planets. Welcome to Minicology! Embark on an interstellar survival sandbox journey. Use your crafting, combat, and automation skills to survive the many challenges this mini-verse throws at you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Farming Sim 19.6%, Aliens 12.1%, Base Building 7.2%, Survival 5.9%
- #20 Cowboy Life Simulator
83% matchVery Positive89% of 1,278 reviews2025
Dev: Odd QubitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
“Cowboy Life Simulator” is an immersive and relaxing ranching sim where you step into the boots of a failed businessman starting fresh on the frontier. Buy your first goat, meet the locals, explore vibrant lands, and build your dream ranch in a world full of stories and adventure!
Why similar: Farming Sim 36.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 9.7%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #21 Roboplant
85% matchMixed65% of 83 reviews2023
Dev: Rebelpug
Windows · Linux
In a future not too far away, humans are finally able to harvest food on alien planets. Embark on a new journey with your team of robots called Beebop 179. Build and manage a hydroponic farm, grow delicious plants and survive the mysterious challenges of outer space.
Why similar: Farming Sim 45.3%, Nature 20.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 10%, Simulation 6.5%
- #22 Outbound
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,098 reviews2026
Dev: Square Glade Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Explore a colorful world and build your own cozy home on wheels. Craft workstations, and source energy from the sun, wind, or water. Upgrade and customize your vehicle, grow crops, and live sustainably off-grid with up to 4 players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.8% ★, Nature 16%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 7.8%, Open World 7.5%
- #23 ASTRONEER
81% matchVery Positive92% of 139,015 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.6 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 51.8% ★, Survival 10%, Base Building 9.9%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 6%
- #24 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,709 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 47.8% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 8.1%
- #25 Occupy Mars: The Game
80% matchMixed70% of 3,132 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Open World Survival Craft 45.4% ★, Base Building 11%, Survival 8.6%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 7.7%
- #26 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
79% matchVery Positive91% of 7,602 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 50.7% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 7.9%, Open World 7.8%, Survival 6.5%
- #27 Signs of Life
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 841 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows
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 62.9% ★, Survival 9.1%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 7.8%, Aliens 4.8%
- #28 Subnautica
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 378,847 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.1% ★, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 8.2%, Aliens 7.6%, Open World 7.5%
- #29 Polylithic
79% matchMixed68% of 203 reviews2023
Dev: polyperfectPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history: the Stone Age. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go at it alone in a world where we're not yet apex predators.
Why similar: Alternate History 24.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Nature 12.8%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 11.2%
- #30 Botany Manor
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,553 reviews2024
Dev: Balloon StudiosPub: Whitethorn Games
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Welcome to Botany Manor, a stately home in 19th century England. You play as inhabitant Arabella Greene, a retired botanist. Explore your house and gardens, filled with research, to figure out the ideal habitat of forgotten flora. Grow each plant to discover the mysterious qualities they hold…
Why similar: Science 39.1%, Nature 23.5%, Puzzle 10.8%, First-Person 9.5%, Exploration 8.2%
- #31 Wonderia
76% matchVery Positive82% of 347 reviews2026
Dev: Rock&DashPub: IndieArk
Windows · Mac
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: Open World Survival Craft 43.6% ★, Farming Sim 21.4%, Survival 8%, Crafting 7.6%, Sandbox 5.8%
- #32 Abiotic Factor
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 58,426 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 20.8 hrsMean: 46.1 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: Open World Survival Craft 35.8% ★, Science 17%, Aliens 9.6%, Base Building 8.6%, Survival 7.5%
- #33 Distant Bloom
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 273 reviews2024
Dev: Ember TrailPub: Kinda Brave
Windows
From a world in ruins to a world in bloom. This serene management game lets you explore an alien planet where things have gone amiss. Harness the power of plants to restore the environment and build a flourishing community with your crewmates.
Why similar: Aliens 31.3%, Nature 27.3%, Crafting 19.1%, Relaxing 9.3%, Exploration 9%
- #34 Surviving Ceres
76% matchVery Positive87% of 139 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: Farming Sim 33%, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 10.5%
- #35 Craterbound
78% matchMixed53% 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: Open World Survival Craft 45.1% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Aliens 8.6%, Survival 8.6%, Open World 8.1%
- #36 Roots of Pacha
74% matchVery Positive94% of 4,536 reviews2023
Dev: Soda Den
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.
Why similar: Farming Sim 56.3%, Crafting 14.3%, Sandbox 8.7%, Relaxing 7.7%, Exploration 6.5%
- #37 Elsewhere
73% matchVery Positive96% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.
Why similar: Base Building 18.8%, Crafting 17.4%, Survival 16.9%, Open World 14.3%, Sandbox 12.6%
- #38 ArkCraft: The Rebirth of the World
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 182 reviews2024
Dev: ZD Yazilim
Windows
In this open-world crafting and building game, you explore an ancient world full of dangers and secrets. Collect animals and plants, build bases and master the craft as you build your ark and save civilization from destruction by the flood and then rebuild it.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.4% ★, Mythology 19.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 8%
- #39 Volcanoids
75% matchVery Positive83% of 9,332 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 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 19%, Crafting 15.5%, Survival 14.4%, Open World 12.9%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #40 OddFauna : Secret of the Terrabeast
73% matchVery Positive91% of 76 reviews2026
Dev: North Channel
Windows
Grow the TerraBeast you live on from a tiny patch of land into a whimsical world! In this fully hand-sculpted, playful systemic sandbox, you'll explore vibrant biomes, farm, craft, build, and befriend the wild OddFauna to create a thriving ecosystem.
Why similar: Farming Sim 30.1%, Nature 19.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 8.5%, Survival 7.1%
- #41 AETHUS
71% matchVery Positive95% of 2,015 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: Open World Survival Craft 47.5% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #42 XenoHaven
73% matchVery Positive86% of 69 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 42.4% ★, Base Building 12%, Open World 10.2%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 8.2%
- #43 Aloft
71% matchVery Positive84% of 3,682 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 47.2% ★, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 8.6%, Sandbox 6.4%
- #44 Above Snakes: Prologue
72% matchVery Positive90% of 1,874 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 53%
In the prologue of Above Snakes, you awake in a destroyed settlement and help the survivors rebuild it. After that, expand the world with world pieces, craft, farm, hunt, build a base, and fight to find out more about what happened.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.7% ★, Base Building 10%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 6.9%, Survival 6.9%
- #45 Dinkum
69% matchVery Positive92% of 29,064 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 29.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.7% ★, Farming Sim 24.8%, Crafting 6.5%, Sandbox 4.3%, Relaxing 3.7%
- #46 Pathless Woods
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,110 reviews2024
Dev: AniYa Games Studio
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Why similar: Farming Sim 35.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 10.8%
- #47 Penkura
72% 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: Open World Survival Craft 50.9% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 9.1%, Open World 7.8%
- #48 Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 11,957 reviews2020
Dev: Panache Digital GamesPub: Private Division
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Survive your evolution in Neogene Africa starting 10 million years ago. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a third-person open world survival game where you Explore, Expand, and Evolve to advance your clan to the next generation in the exciting new adventure from Panache Digital Games.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.7% ★, Science 15.1%, Nature 11.5%, Survival 8.1%, Open World 7.6%
- #49 Before The Green Moon
70% matchVery Positive94% of 140 reviews2023
Dev: Turnfollow
Windows · Mac
A science fiction farming simulation game set in a small community at the base of a space elevator during the days and seasons leading up to your departure for the moon.
Why similar: Farming Sim 44.1%, Nature 36.9%, Open World 8.8%, Relaxing 8%, Simulation 2.2%
- #50 Nova Lands
68% matchVery Positive89% of 3,518 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 38.4% ★, Farming Sim 17%, Base Building 11%, Survival 7.2%, Crafting 6.9%
- #51 Sky Harvest
67% matchVery Positive85% of 103 reviews2026
Dev: Armored CatPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Armed with hand-me-down tools and some cash, you begin your new life as THE Chief Farmer, a position your grandfather once excelled in. Can you honor his legacy and transform the overgrown, untamed and desolate floating island into a flourishing farm abundant with produce?
Why similar: Farming Sim 51.7%, Crafting 13.3%, Open World 11.7%, Sandbox 9.2%, Relaxing 7.1%
- #52 The Last Alchemist
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 168 reviews2024
Dev: Vile MonarchPub: Marvelous Europe
Windows
Master the wonders of alchemy! Solve alchemical puzzles by transforming and combining Essences. Craft items, tools and machines. Explore the enchanting world, gather peculiar resources, and befriend the Agari, adorable mushroom folk who will help you find the cure for your mysterious disease.
Why similar: Farming Sim 31.3%, Science 28.6%, Crafting 9.8%, Base Building 8.7%, Simulation 5.7%
- #53 Russian Village Simulator on Mars
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: VD Games
Windows
Develop a village colony on Mars, using various resources and bringing the unique flavor of Russian culture to the distant space.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Farming Sim 23.8%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 6.8%, Survival 5.8%
- #54 Starsand
69% matchMixed66% of 1,254 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.5% ★, Aliens 11.7%, Base Building 9.2%, Survival 8.2%, Open World 7.6%
- #55 Tea Garden Simulator
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 65 reviews2023
Dev: Flying Robot StudiosPub: SYV Games LLP
Windows
Explore tea production intricacies with real-world research, select ideal terroir and clones, master plucking and processing, and create specialty teas for your unique brand. Unravel new flavors, unleash your inner tea scientist, experiment with endless creative ideas, and grow your Tea empire.
Why similar: Science 35.6%, Farming Sim 24.8%, Nature 13.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #56 Card Survival: Fantasy Forest
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,172 reviews2025
Dev: WinterSpring Games
Windows · Mac
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest is a card-based deep survival simulator and the next installment in the Card Survival Series. Carve yourself a home in a primordial forest that has a will of its own. A day-to-day life simulator in a world where nature reigns with mystery, beauty and sometimes cruelty.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.6% ★, Farming Sim 26.1%, Survival 8.3%, Base Building 5.9%, Sandbox 5.6%
- #57 One Lonely Outpost
67% matchMixed58% of 658 reviews2025
Dev: indie.io
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
An alien world sometimes needs a farmer’s touch to bring it to life. In this sci-fi, colonization-life sim, terraform a barren world: turn wastelands into verdant landscapes while exploring, farming, building, and unlocking all the mysteries of this strange new planet.
Why similar: Farming Sim 51.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 9.6%, Open World 9.6%
- #58 Research Story
65% matchVery Positive95% of 340 reviews2025
Dev: Petal Cat Games
Windows
Set out to discover and record plants and creatures for the Violet Archive. Grow crops, tame animals, and build the perfect farm! Forge friendships along the way as you begin your life as a researcher!
Why similar: Farming Sim 48.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 7.5%, Simulation 7.4%
- #59 INFLUXIS
66% matchMixed64% of 257 reviews2026
Dev: BaleYc Studios
Windows
Explore a mesmerizing alien world, filled with deep bioluminescent wonders and horrors alike. Old alien artefacts await uncovering, in your search for the lost crew of Lazarus, in the search for your family in the depths of planet Eo-III.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.7% ★, Aliens 13.9%, Nature 11.3%, Survival 9.9%, Open World 9.7%