- #1 The Planet Crafter
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 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: Base Building 16.3%, Automation 12.9%, Building 11.3%, Survival 10.3%, Space 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the most similar experience of transforming a desolate environment through base-building and resource management.
- #2 Astrometica
96% matchVery Positive83% of 3,055 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: Space Sim 22.7%, Automation 11%, Base Building 10%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: The full version of the seed game provides a more expansive and polished version of the same core mechanics.
- #3 Breathedge
96% matchVery Positive82% of 16,224 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: Base Building 20.8%, Space 18.6%, Survival 15.8%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the zero-gravity survival and crafting loop found in the seed game perfectly.
- #4 Astro Colony
95% matchVery Positive82% of 2,526 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 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: Base Building 17.5%, Automation 16.3%, Space Sim 15%, Space 10.6%, Resource Management 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on automation and expanding your base across space, matching the seed game's progression style.
- #5 ASTRONEER
94% matchVery Positive92% of 137,959 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.2 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: Base Building 16.5%, Space 15.1%, Open World 14.2%, Survival 14.1%, Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: This title shares the focus on space exploration, modular base building, and resource gathering in a vibrant setting.
- #6 Eden Crafters
94% matchVery Positive86% of 2,425 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 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: Automation 18.8%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 10.8%, Open World 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes automation and base building within a survival context that feels very familiar to the seed game.
- #7 Space Haven
92% matchVery Positive86% of 10,442 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.9 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 21.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 11.6%, Space 10.7%, Survival 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a more strategic, colony-management take on the space survival and base construction genre.
- #8 Hardspace: Shipbreaker
93% matchVery Positive89% of 21,927 reviews2022
Dev: Blackbird Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 24.1 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 32.4%, Space 27.9%, Sci-fi 14.8%, Building 10.3%, First-Person 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the zero-G debris scavenging and tool-based gameplay that defines the seed game's atmosphere.
- #9 Occupy Mars: The Game
91% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,070 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.4 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: Base Building 16.5%, Building 12.1%, Open World 11.5%, Resource Management 11.5%, Crafting 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers detailed resource management and base construction on a harsh Martian surface that requires constant maintenance.
- #10 Subnautica
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 365,018 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 39.3 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: Base Building 21.5%, Survival 21.3%, Open World 17.6%, Crafting 14.8%, Exploration 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for survival-exploration games, offering deep base-building mechanics in a hazardous, alien environment.
- #11 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
90% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,194 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.8 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 26.5%, Building 14.3%, Space 13.1%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: An extensive space survival game that allows for complex ship and base building across multiple planets.
- #12 Space Trash Scavenger
89% matchVery Positive84% of 518 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 16.4%, Space Sim 14%, Base Building 10.3%, Space 10.3%, Crafting 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines scavenging mechanics with base building in a space setting, focusing on cleaning up orbital debris.
- #13 Project Asteroids
89% matchMixed57% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: Aleksandr Serdiuk
Windows
In the vastness of space, you are a lone robot desperately trying to survive. Build, explore, and fight for your life as you face deadly threats in the asteroid belt. This hardcore game shows no mercy—dangers lurk at every step, ready to destroy you at any moment.
Why similar: Survival 16.7%, Crafting 16%, Base Building 15%, Open World 14.9%, Building 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and crafting within a space-based environment that mirrors the seed game's setting.
- #14 Satisfactory
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 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: Base Building 21.6%, Automation 21.3%, Building 11.4%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: The ultimate automation and base-building experience that shares the satisfying loop of scaling up production.
- #15 Stationeers
87% matchVery Positive88% of 9,014 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 83.9 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 18.4%, Base Building 17.3%, Building 13.1%, Space 11.4%, Survival 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A more technical, hardcore approach to space base building that rewards players for mastering complex resource management.
- #16 MewnBase
84% matchVery Positive93% of 1,439 reviews2023
Dev: Cairn4
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
MewnBase is a space-cat survival and base-building game. Scavenge around a barren planet for items to keep you fed. Explore and collect resources. Craft items and grow your base to help you survive.
Why similar: Base Building 23%, Crafting 14.3%, Building 14.1%, Space 13.5%, Survival 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: A charming take on base building and survival on an alien planet with a focus on resource management.
- #17 Remains
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 318 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: Base Building 18.9%, Building 14.8%, Space 13.8%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game centered on scavenging and building in a space environment with a focus on resource scarcity.
- #18 Prospector
84% matchMostly Positive71% 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: Automation 15%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 11.3%, Resource Management 10.3%, Open World 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the resource-management and sandbox elements of space survival and base construction.
- #19 Void Crew
82% matchVery Positive87% of 8,248 reviews2024
Dev: Hutlihut GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Void Crew is a Chaotic, Co-op Roguelite game for 1 to 6 players: Outfit your spaceship and crew for thrilling quests, brave fierce enemies in Space Battles... and try not to panic!
Why similar: Space Sim 57.4%, Space 18.1%, Sci-fi 6.4%, First-Person 5.4%, Exploration 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op space survival game that emphasizes ship maintenance and exploration in a dangerous vacuum.
- #20 Craterbound
85% 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 21.3%, Base Building 16%, Space 12.5%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Exploration and survival mechanics that mirror the core loop of building a home in a hostile space location.
- #21 The Last Caretaker
81% matchVery Positive86% of 11,047 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 32.0 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 18.9%, Base Building 17.7%, Survival 12%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and automation in a way that aligns with the seed game's mechanics of maintaining a base.
- #22 Final Upgrade
83% matchMostly Positive77% of 454 reviews2022
Dev: TaosX
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 20.1%, Automation 18.7%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 12.4%, Space 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Strong emphasis on automation and building in a space-faring context with a focus on logistics.
- #23 Jitter
81% matchVery Positive86% of 159 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 33.4%, Base Building 16.8%, Space 15.2%, Open World 13.8%, Sci-fi 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: An early access space survival game that emphasizes exploration and adventure in a vast, empty void.
- #24 Starcom: Nexus
82% matchVery Positive91% of 2,295 reviews2019
Dev: Wx3 Labs, LLC
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Suddenly thrown into an unknown galaxy, you must explore, fight or befriend aliens and transform your ship from a small survey vessel into a powerful battlecruiser to unravel the mystery of the forces that brought you here and find your way home.
Why similar: Space 27.8%, Space Sim 26.1%, Open World 12.3%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Exploration-heavy space game with modular ship building that complements the seed game's focus on space travel.
- #25 Forever Skies
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 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: Base Building 19%, Survival 12.8%, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: Survival and base building on a high-tech airship, sharing the 'home-base-as-a-vehicle' feel of the seed game.
- #26 XenoHaven
79% 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: Base Building 18%, Open World 13.6%, Survival 12.4%, Building 12%, Automation 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Sandbox survival with a focus on base building and resource management in an alien environment.
- #27 Raft
78% matchVery Positive93% of 372,032 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.3 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: Survival 29.2%, Base Building 18.5%, Crafting 16.2%, Building 16.1%, Open World 14.2%
Why You'll Like It: While set on water, the core survival and modular base-building loop is highly comparable to space-based survival.
- #28 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
77% matchVery Positive91% of 7,431 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 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: Base Building 17.4%, Automation 16.3%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 9.9%
- #29 ICARUS
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 63,962 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Base Building 21.9%, Survival 18.3%, Building 13.5%, Crafting 13.3%, Open World 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: Session-based survival and base building that shares the high-stakes exploration vibe of the seed game.
- #30 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,680 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: Base Building 18.9%, Survival 14.4%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 11.6%, Automation 9.4%
- #31 AETHUS
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,744 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: Base Building 14.8%, Automation 13.5%, Building 11.3%, Survival 10%, Crafting 9.9%
- #32 Skyformer
74% matchVery Positive87% of 67 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%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 10.8%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 9.5%
- #33 Star Crafter
74% 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: Base Building 16%, Automation 14.6%, Crafting 11%, Space 10.8%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #34 StarRupture
71% matchVery Positive81% of 12,313 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 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 21.9%, Base Building 20.9%, Survival 13.8%, Open World 13.3%, Crafting 12.7%
- #35 Space Engineers 2
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,590 reviews2025
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.
Why similar: Space Sim 22.5%, Building 15.7%, Space 13.5%, Survival 12.9%, Open World 11.5%
- #36 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 201 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: Automation 20%, Base Building 18%, Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.9%, Resource Management 11.7%
- #37 Oxygen: First Breath
72% matchVery Positive89% of 1,654 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Base Building 31.1%, Survival 18.8%, Building 18.7%, Resource Management 18.3%, Crafting 10.3%
- #38 Blossom: The Seed of Life
68% matchVery Positive89% of 884 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 21.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Automation 11.7%, Building 10%, Crafting 8.5%
- #39 Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,148 reviews2020
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.
Why similar: Space Sim 26.2%, Automation 12.6%, Space 10.6%, Building 9.5%, Crafting 9.4%
- #40 Mr. Prepper: Prologue
70% matchVery Positive83% of 2,554 reviews2020
Dev: Rejected GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Mr. Prepper: Prologue is a free standalone version of the game Mr. Prepper, featuring an essential part of the story.
Why similar: Base Building 28.5%, Survival 22.5%, Crafting 22.4%, Resource Management 21.3%, Adventure 3.5%
- #41 Outerverse
71% matchMixed50% of 125 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 22.4%, Automation 14.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Space 9.6%, Crafting 8.8%
- #42 Interstellar Rift
70% matchMixed68% of 1,660 reviews2020
Dev: Split PolygonPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.5 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 28.4%, Building 13.2%, Open World 11%, Crafting 10.8%, Space 9.9%
- #43 Minicology
69% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Isaac DennerPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.0 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 29.9%, Automation 14.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 10.4%, Survival 9%
- #44 World Crafter TD: Prologue
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 101 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
A highly addictive survival crafting tower defense game! Gather, craft, build turrets, shoot guns, and expand the land to defend against waves of enemies! The prologue for the full game, World Crafter TD!
Why similar: Automation 20.5%, Base Building 20%, Crafting 14.1%, Resource Management 13.8%, Survival 11.5%
- #45 TerraTech Worlds
68% matchMixed63% of 2,228 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.9 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: Base Building 19.8%, Building 13.9%, Automation 13.2%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 11.9%
- #46 Evospace
70% matchVery Positive83% of 388 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: Base Building 21.8%, Automation 19.5%, Crafting 16%, Building 15.4%, Open World 13.4%
- #47 Surviving Ceres
66% matchVery Positive87% of 138 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: Base Building 20.3%, Building 18.1%, Survival 16.3%, Crafting 15.8%, Open World 13.9%
- #48 Miniland Adventure: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive87% of 721 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Miniland: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full game. Your task is to build your world and fight against your enemies. The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself!
Why similar: Base Building 21.3%, Survival 16%, Building 15.1%, Inventory Management 14.1%, Crafting 13.7%
- #49 Dyson Sphere Program
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,697 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.1 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 21.3%, Base Building 18.5%, Space 13.2%, Building 11.4%, Space Sim 11.3%
- #50 Star Shelter
69% 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 21.9%, Base Building 17.2%, Open World 11.2%, Space 10.4%, Survival 10.4%
- #51 Drift: Space Survival
67% 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: Space 16.7%, Survival 16.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 14.9%, Crafting 13.5%