- #1 Astrometica
97% matchVery Positive83% of 3,131 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 16.6 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: Space Sim 22.8%, Automation 10.8%, Base Building 10%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: The full version of the seed game offers the complete experience with expanded mechanics and deeper survival systems.
- #2 The Planet Crafter
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 71,525 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 38.3 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: Base Building 16.3%, Automation 12.7%, Building 11.3%, Survival 10.3%, Space 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the core loop of survival and base building while focusing on the satisfying progression of terraforming a barren planet.
- #3 Breathedge
96% matchVery Positive82% of 16,329 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 features a similar zero-gravity survival experience with a heavy emphasis on scavenging debris and crafting in space.
- #4 ASTRONEER
95% matchVery Positive92% of 138,510 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.3 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 14.3%, Survival 14.1%, Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features a similar vibrant aesthetic and focus on exploration, resource gathering, and base expansion on alien worlds.
- #5 Astro Colony
94% matchVery Positive81% of 2,654 reviews2026
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 16.1%, Space Sim 15.3%, Space 10.9%, Resource Management 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on space base automation and resource management, allowing you to build sprawling, efficient colonies.
- #6 Space Engineers
94% matchVery Positive89% of 133,963 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Space Sim 27.6%, Base Building 16.8%, Building 13.5%, Space 12.1%, Survival 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive experience for complex space base building and engineering, offering unparalleled freedom in construction.
- #7 Occupy Mars: The Game
93% matchMixed70% of 3,099 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.2 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 12.2%, Open World 11.6%, Resource Management 11.3%, Crafting 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic survival game that requires careful management of resources and base construction on a hostile Martian surface.
- #8 Eden Crafters
91% matchVery Positive86% of 2,537 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 13.6 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 18.6%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 10.8%, Open World 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines terraforming and base building with automation mechanics in a challenging open-world environment.
- #9 Stationeers
92% matchVery Positive88% of 9,110 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 83.8 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 18.2%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 13.2%, Space 11.5%, Survival 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a more hardcore, technical approach to space base management, focusing on atmospheric and electrical systems.
- #10 Space Trash Scavenger
91% matchVery Positive84% of 521 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: Automation 16.2%, Space Sim 14%, Space 10.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the scavenging and survival loop in space, focusing on cleaning up debris to survive.
- #11 Subnautica
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 375,391 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.6 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 17.7%, Crafting 14.7%, Exploration 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for open-world survival, offering a similar sense of isolation and discovery while building underwater bases.
- #12 MewnBase
89% matchVery Positive93% of 1,442 reviews2023
Dev: Cairn4
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 22.9%, Crafting 14.3%, Building 14.1%, Space 13.5%, Survival 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: A charming yet challenging survival game centered on building and maintaining a base on a desolate planet.
- #13 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,271 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.9 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 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers extensive space exploration, ship building, and base construction across multiple planets.
- #14 No Man's Sky
88% matchVery Positive85% of 411,162 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 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: Space 18.9%, Open World 18.8%, Space Sim 18.1%, Survival 12.2%, Sci-fi 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: An expansive space exploration game that features robust base-building mechanics and resource gathering.
- #15 Satisfactory
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 274,659 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.8 hrsMean: 111.2 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 21.7%, Automation 21.1%, Building 11.4%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: The premier choice for players who enjoy the automation and base-building aspects of the seed game.
- #16 Hardspace: Shipbreaker
86% matchVery Positive89% of 22,140 reviews2022
Dev: Blackbird Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 24.0 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 28.1%, Sci-fi 14.9%, Building 10.2%, First-Person 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the zero-gravity scavenging and debris-management feel of the seed game perfectly.
- #17 Dyson Sphere Program
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,085 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.3 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%, Base Building 18.6%, Space 13.3%, Building 11.5%, Space Sim 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on large-scale space automation and resource logistics across multiple star systems.
- #18 Forever Skies
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,551 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 31.8 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 19.1%, Survival 12.8%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features survival and base building on a mobile platform in a hostile, high-altitude environment.
- #19 Project Asteroids
84% matchMixed57% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: PAEB Studio
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%, Open World 15%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on survival and crafting within the confines of space, mirroring the seed game's core theme.
- #20 Raft
81% matchVery Positive93% of 374,777 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.5 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 14.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a similar survival and base expansion experience, though set on the ocean rather than in space.
- #21 Starbase
83% matchMixed56% of 6,734 reviews2021
Dev: Frozenbyte
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 91.4 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 33.2%, Building 17.1%, Open World 14.5%, Space 12.7%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on massive-scale space building and engineering with a high level of detail in ship construction.
- #22 Oxygen: First Breath
82% matchVery Positive89% of 1,658 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.1 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 31.2%, Survival 18.9%, Building 18.8%, Resource Management 18.1%, Crafting 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder and survival game that requires managing life support systems in a post-apocalyptic space setting.
- #23 Volcanoids
82% matchVery Positive83% of 9,298 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 22.2%, Building 16.9%, Crafting 15.3%, Survival 14.2%, Open World 13.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique twist on base building by allowing you to construct and upgrade a mobile drill ship.
- #24 Void Crew
79% matchVery Positive86% of 8,357 reviews2024
Dev: Hutlihut GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 16.7 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 53.5%, Space 16.4%, Sci-fi 8.5%, First-Person 6.9%, Exploration 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op space survival game that requires ship maintenance and exploration in a hostile galaxy.
- #25 Final Upgrade
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 457 reviews2022
Dev: TaosX
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.2 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 20.2%, Automation 18.4%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 12.5%, Space 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on space automation and logistics management, perfect for players who enjoy the technical side of base building.
- #26 ICARUS
80% matchMostly Positive75% of 64,831 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.3 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 22%, Survival 18.3%, Building 13.4%, Crafting 13.3%, Open World 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that emphasizes base building and resource extraction on a dangerous alien planet.
- #27 Nova Lands
78% matchVery Positive89% of 3,465 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.2 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 21.6%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 10.7%, Survival 10.6%, Building 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features automation and survival with a focus on base expansion and resource gathering on alien islands.
- #28 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
77% matchVery Positive91% of 7,488 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%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 10%
- #29 Scrapnaut
79% matchMixed70% of 833 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Building 23.8%, Survival 19.4%, Base Building 18.4%, Crafting 14%, Open World 13%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and base building with a unique art style and resource management mechanics.
- #30 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,689 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: Base Building 18.9%, Survival 14.4%, Open World 12.2%, Crafting 11.6%, Automation 9.3%
- #31 SpaceCraft
75% matchMixed67% of 2,264 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Automation 12.7%, Space 10.9%, Open World 9.7%
- #32 Derelict
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sack of Hay Studios
Windows
Derelict is a co-op sci-fi horror game. Ships have been going dark; you need to find out why. Work for factions keeping a dying system alive. Salvage, recover, confront the anomalies haunting the hulls. Fail and the factions fall. Will the ship take you first?
Why similar: Sci-fi 48.6%, First-Person 38.6%, Action 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: An immersive survival game set in a harsh space environment with a focus on exploration and crafting.
- #33 Star Crafter
75% matchMixed70% of 105 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 16.1%, Automation 14.4%, Crafting 11%, Space 10.8%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #34 AETHUS
71% matchVery Positive95% of 1,920 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.0 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: Base Building 16.5%, Automation 14.7%, Building 12.5%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 11%
- #35 Skyformer
73% matchVery Positive84% of 70 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 16.5%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 10.8%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9.5%
- #36 Prospector
73% 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: Base Building 15%, Automation 14.8%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 10.2%, Open World 9.8%
- #37 The Last Caretaker
70% matchVery Positive86% of 12,107 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.2 hrsMean: 35.0 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 18.7%, Base Building 17.7%, Survival 12%, Crafting 12%, Open World 11.6%
- #38 Jitter
71% matchVery Positive85% of 163 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 16.7%, Space 15.2%, Open World 13.9%, Sci-fi 8.2%
- #39 Craterbound
74% 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 12%
- #40 Space Haven
68% matchVery Positive86% of 10,886 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 21.8%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 11.6%, Space 10.8%, Survival 10.4%
- #41 Remains
73% 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%
- #42 XenoHaven
71% 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 13.7%, Survival 12.5%, Building 12%, Crafting 10.4%
- #43 World Crafter TD: Prologue
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 102 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 20.2%, Base Building 20.1%, Crafting 14.2%, Resource Management 13.7%, Survival 11.5%
- #44 Evospace
72% matchVery Positive83% of 391 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 19.4%, Crafting 16%, Building 15.5%, Open World 13.5%
- #45 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 203 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 19.7%, Base Building 18.1%, Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.9%, Resource Management 11.6%
- #46 Starcom: Nexus
69% matchVery Positive90% of 2,305 reviews2019
Dev: Wx3 Labs, LLC
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 13.5 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%
- #47 Starship EVO
69% matchVery Positive84% of 1,485 reviews2020
Dev: Moonfire Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
Why similar: Space Sim 24%, Building 23.5%, Space 21.4%, Open World 9.7%, Sci-fi 6.8%
- #48 Blossom: The Seed of Life
65% matchVery Positive89% of 956 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 14.4%, Automation 11.5%, Building 10%, Crafting 8.4%
- #49 Out of Orbit
67% matchMostly Positive80% of 162 reviews2023
Dev: Case Yellow Labs
Windows
Design, build, or pirate spaceships. Build bases on planets. Explore endless randomly generated universes, travel through black holes, command your crew, survive cosmic events, collect and trade materials, battle epic bosses, and much more. The sky is the limit, literally!
Why similar: Base Building 18.6%, Building 13.4%, Open World 13.2%, Space 12.2%, Spaceships 12.1% ★
- #50 Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,154 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 12.4%, Space 10.6%, Building 9.5%, Crafting 9.4%
- #51 Minicology
67% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Isaac DennerPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 4.7 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%, Automation 14.4%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 10.4%, Survival 9.1%
- #52 Outerverse
69% 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 22.5%, Automation 14.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Space 9.7%, Crafting 8.8%
- #53 Interstellar Rift
68% matchMixed68% of 1,663 reviews2020
Dev: Split PolygonPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.4 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 11.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Space 9.9%
- #54 Mr. Prepper: Prologue
67% 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 28.6%, Survival 22.6%, Crafting 22.4%, Resource Management 21%, Adventure 3.6%