- #1 The Planet Crafter
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 16.1% ★, Automation 13.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the core loop of terraforming and base-building in a hostile, desolate alien environment.
- #2 Breathedge
96% matchVery Positive82% of 16,026 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 22.1% ★, Space 14.8%, Survival 12.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the zero-gravity survival and scavenging mechanics found in Astrometica within a humorous space setting.
- #3 Space Trash Scavenger
96% matchVery Positive84% of 514 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.2 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: Automation 16%, Open World Survival Craft 15.3% ★, Space Sim 13.8% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Space 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the scavenging and resource-gathering aspects of space survival that define the Astrometica experience.
- #4 Astro Colony
95% matchVery Positive82% of 2,509 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Automation 19.4%, Space Sim 18.1% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Space 12.1%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes the automation and base-management aspects of surviving in space on a larger scale.
- #5 ASTRONEER
94% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 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 20.1% ★, Space 14%, Open World 13.5%, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar sense of wonder and exploration while focusing on terrain manipulation and crafting in space.
- #6 Subnautica
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 40.0 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 25.3% ★, Survival 17%, Open World 14.1%, Crafting 13.3%, Base Building 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: While set underwater, it is the gold standard for first-person survival, exploration, and base-building in an alien world.
- #7 Forever Skies
93% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.2% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: This survival game features a unique floating base-building mechanic that feels very similar to managing a station in space.
- #8 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,087 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Space Sim 26% ★, Open World Survival Craft 17.3% ★, Space 12.3%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a comprehensive space-sim experience that combines survival, exploration, and modular ship building.
- #9 Dyson Sphere Program
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 26%, Base Building 16.6%, Space 15.5%, Space Sim 13.9% ★, Open World 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: It is the premier choice for players who enjoy the automation and large-scale engineering aspects of space-based games.
- #10 Voidtrain
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,176 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 29.5% ★, Survival 14.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 14.2%, Open World 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of building a mobile base within a void, requiring constant maintenance and resource gathering.
- #11 Stationeers
90% matchVery Positive88% of 8,897 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 81.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Automation 23.1%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 15.2%, Survival 13.9%, Space 13.7%
Why You'll Like It: A more hardcore take on space survival that emphasizes complex automation and atmospheric management.
- #12 Eden Crafters
89% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Automation 19%, Open World Survival Craft 17.1% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the survival and crafting aspects of terraforming, mirroring the progression systems found in Astrometica.
- #13 Occupy Mars: The Game
88% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,012 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Crafting 15.3%, Base Building 15%, Open World 14%, Space 13.4%, Survival 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a realistic approach to survival and base-building on the harsh surface of Mars.
- #14 Satisfactory
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 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 24%, Base Building 17.9%, Crafting 13.5%, Open World 12.5%, Open World Survival Craft 8.6% ★
Why You'll Like It: For those who love the automation and base-building progression, this game offers the most polished experience in the genre.
- #15 TerraTech Worlds
87% matchMixed63% of 2,175 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 19% ★, Base Building 15%, Crafting 13.7%, Automation 13.5%, Survival 12%
Why You'll Like It: It combines exploration and base-building with modular vehicle construction in an open-world setting.
- #16 Raft
86% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Survival 24.6%, Crafting 15.3%, Open World 12%, Base Building 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: Though set on the ocean, the core gameplay of expanding a base while drifting through a dangerous environment is mechanically identical to space survival.
- #17 Final Factory
85% matchMostly Positive79% of 300 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Why similar: Automation 25%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 15.3%, Space 11.6%, Resource Management 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game leans heavily into the automation and logistics side of building a massive space-faring infrastructure.
- #18 Hardspace: Shipbreaker
84% matchVery Positive89% of 21,702 reviews2022
Dev: Blackbird Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!
Why similar: Space Sim 34.8% ★, Space 28.7%, Sci-fi 15.5%, First-Person 9.1%, Open World 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the physics-based scavenging and dismantling of space debris, which is a key component of Astrometica.
- #19 StarRupture
82% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Automation 19.2%, Open World Survival Craft 17.7% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 12%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines base-building and survival with a focus on automation in a visually striking sci-fi world.
- #20 Drift: Space Survival
84% matchMixed70% of 76 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 24.1% ★, Space 15%, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 13.8%, Base Building 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: It is a direct thematic match, focusing on the isolation and survival mechanics of being stranded in deep space.
- #21 No Man's Sky
82% matchVery Positive85% of 402,164 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.2 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.9% ★, Open World 15%, Space Sim 14.9% ★, Space 14.8%, Survival 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides an unparalleled sense of scale for space exploration, survival, and base-building across a procedurally generated universe.
- #22 AETHUS
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,163 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
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: Automation 14.4%, Open World Survival Craft 12.3% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: It blends survival and base-building with a focus on mining and crafting in a sci-fi setting.
- #23 Skyformer
80% matchVery Positive90% of 59 reviews2025
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!
Why similar: Automation 16.7%, Open World Survival Craft 14.7% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the automation and base-building elements required to thrive in a challenging, sci-fi environment.
- #24 Starsand
81% matchMixed66% of 1,227 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 18% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 12%, Base Building 11.9%, Open World 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a survival-focused experience with a strong emphasis on building and exploration in a harsh, alien-like environment.
- #25 Cubic Odyssey
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,483 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Open World 11.8%, Space 10.1%, Crafting 9%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that focuses on base-building and exploration in a stylized space setting.
- #26 The Last Caretaker
77% matchVery Positive85% of 9,793 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 20.5%, Crafting 14.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 13.5%, Open World 13.3%
- #27 Astrometica: Prologue
77% matchVery Positive90% of 1,281 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Astrometica: Prologue is the free game about surviving in space. You need to use your skills and tools to stay alive. There are many challenges to face, and you need to fight to survive. You also need to build a new base in space.
Why similar: Space Sim 22.7% ★, Automation 11.2%, Base Building 10%, Survival 8.8%, Open World 8.5%
- #28 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
76% matchVery Positive91% of 7,161 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 18.3% ★, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 10.4%
- #29 Interstellar Rift
79% matchMixed68% of 1,655 reviews2020
Dev: Split PolygonPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
Why similar: Space Sim 33.2% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Open World 12.5%, Space 11%, Survival 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: This space-sim focuses on modular ship building and the logistical challenges of surviving in a vast galaxy.
- #30 Under A New Sun
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 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 25.2% ★, Survival 15.9%, Crafting 15.6%, Open World 15.2%, Base Building 13.3%
Why You'll Like It: It features a strong focus on crafting and survival mechanics in an open-world environment that rewards exploration.
- #31 Blossom: The Seed of Life
75% matchVery Positive90% of 654 reviews2026
Dev: Pebbledust GamesPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
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: Space Sim 22% ★, Open World Survival Craft 14.8% ★, Automation 11.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.5%
- #32 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,643 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 18.5% ★, Survival 13.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 11.4%
- #33 Star Crafter
76% matchMixed69% of 104 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 16% ★, Automation 14.4%, Crafting 12%, Base Building 11.7%, Space 10.3%
- #34 Techtonica
74% matchMixed65% of 3,183 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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: Automation 32.7%, Base Building 19.8%, Crafting 16.1%, Resource Management 11.8%, First-Person 7%
- #35 Prospector
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 149 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: Automation 16.4%, Base Building 12%, Open World Survival Craft 11.9% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 10.4%
- #36 Final Upgrade
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 451 reviews2022
Dev: TaosX
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!
Why similar: Space Sim 22.3% ★, Automation 21.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Space 13%, Open World 11.5%
- #37 Outworld Station
72% matchVery Positive90% of 506 reviews2025
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Automation 26.3%, Base Building 17.2%, Space 16.2%, Crafting 13.9%, Inventory Management 10.3%
- #38 Volcanoids
73% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 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: Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Crafting 16.4%, Survival 15%, Open World 14.8%, Base Building 13.9%
- #39 Starbase
73% matchMixed56% of 6,702 reviews2021
Dev: Frozenbyte
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 91.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
Why similar: Space Sim 36.5% ★, Open World 15.4%, Space 13.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World Survival Craft 10% ★
- #40 Stardeus
71% matchVery Positive87% of 1,529 reviews2022
Dev: Kodo LinijaPub: Paradox Arc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
Why similar: Space Sim 23.3% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 11.7%, Space 11.6%, Survival 11.1%
- #41 Remains
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 316 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 19.7% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Space 13.5%, Survival 12.8%
- #42 KeepUp Survival
70% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.3% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 14.1%, Open World 13.9%
- #43 Survival: Fountain of Youth
68% matchVery Positive86% of 4,270 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 23.1% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 15.8%, Open World 11.8%
- #44 Space Haven
70% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Space Sim 27.5% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 13%, Space 12.4%, Open World 10.9%
- #45 Space Engineers 2
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,293 reviews2025
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Space Engineers 2 is a sandbox about engineering and colonization where you build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible world. Begin the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol, expand humanity’s foothold in the Almagest system, and fight to survive.
Why similar: Space Sim 27.4% ★, Space 15.6%, Survival 15.2%, Open World 13.6%, Crafting 12.1%
- #46 The Alters
66% matchVery Positive90% of 16,976 reviews2025
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.
Why similar: Base Building 22.7%, Survival 21.6%, Crafting 14.4%, Space 12.7%, Sci-fi 10.6%
- #47 Craterbound
71% matchMixed54% 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: Space Sim 19.1% ★, Open World Survival Craft 16% ★, Space 10.7%, Survival 10.5%, Base Building 10.5%
- #48 QANGA
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 553 reviews2024
Dev: iolaCorp Studio
Windows
QANGA: Dive into a sci-fi adventure of exploration and resilience across the cosmos. Merge your mind with a state-of-the-art cyborg crafted by ICLabs Industries, and journey through this expansive universe!
Why similar: Space Sim 28.8% ★, Open World Survival Craft 16.5% ★, Space 12%, Open World 11.6%, Survival 10.4%
- #49 Nova Lands
68% matchVery Positive89% of 3,351 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.4 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: Automation 22.1%, Open World Survival Craft 16.3% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.6%
- #50 Outerverse
71% matchMixed51% of 124 reviews2022
Dev: Tbjbu2Pub: indie.io
Windows
Build automated machines and weapons across the universe, beat massive bosses, experience cosmic events and explore unique landmarks in this quest driven automation crafting adventure game. Includes a manual scenario for crafting instead of machines for those not a fan of logic/automation!
Why similar: Space Sim 21.3% ★, Automation 13.8%, Open World Survival Craft 12.3% ★, Crafting 9.1%, Base Building 8.8%
- #51 Minicology
69% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Isaac DennerPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Space Sim 30.1% ★, Automation 14.5%, Open World Survival Craft 13.2% ★, Crafting 9.7%, Base Building 9.6%
- #52 Star Shelter
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 435 reviews2018
Dev: Overflow
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.
Why similar: Space Sim 20.1% ★, Open World Survival Craft 16.6% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Open World 10%, Crafting 9.5%
- #53 XenoHaven
67% matchVery Positive86% of 64 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 16% ★, Open World 13.8%, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 11.8%
- #54 Evospace
69% matchVery Positive82% of 387 reviews2019
Dev: Quantum Rivet
Windows · Mac
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
Why similar: Automation 24%, Crafting 21.7%, Base Building 19.7%, Open World 16.2%, First-Person 5.6%
- #55 Jitter
65% matchVery Positive86% of 153 reviews2025
Dev: Berko Games
Windows
A sci-fi exploration & survival game where you take on the role of a spaceship’s AI. Explore, fight, and survive across a mining colony in the Main Asteroid Belt. Rebuild your ship. Rescue your crew. Reveal the truth behind your mission.
Why similar: Space Sim 37.2% ★, Space 16.1%, Open World 15%, Base Building 13.6%, Sci-fi 8.9%
- #56 Life Not Supported
67% matchMixed68% of 170 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 20.9% ★, Crafting 15.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Space 13.9%, Survival 13.7%
