- #1 Astrometica
97% matchVery Positive83% of 2,970 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 17.8 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 11.2%, Base Building 10%, Survival 8.8%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: The full version of the seed game provides the complete experience with expanded mechanics and content.
- #2 The Planet Crafter
96% 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: Base Building 16.1%, Automation 13.3%, Building 11.3%, Survival 10.1%, Space 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the terraforming and base-building progression loop found in the seed game perfectly.
- #3 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: Base Building 21%, Space 18.6%, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the exact aesthetic and gameplay feel of surviving in a hazardous, debris-filled space environment.
- #4 Satisfactory
94% 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 21.6%, Base Building 21.5%, Building 11.3%, Open World 11.1%, Crafting 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: The premier choice for players who enjoy the automation and complex factory-building aspects of the seed game.
- #5 ASTRONEER
95% 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: Base Building 16.6%, Space 15.1%, Open World 14.2%, Survival 14.1%, Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration, resource gathering, and modular base-building on alien planets with a similar sense of wonder.
- #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: Base Building 21.6%, Survival 21.3%, Open World 17.6%, Crafting 14.7%, Exploration 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: While underwater, it is the gold standard for survival-crafting games that emphasize exploration and base-building in a hostile environment.
- #7 Space Engineers
93% matchVery Positive89% of 133,238 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 95.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 16.9%, Building 13.5%, Space 12.1%, Survival 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers unparalleled depth in engineering and construction, allowing you to build complex space stations and ships from scratch.
- #8 Astro Colony
92% 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: Base Building 17.5%, Automation 16.6%, Space Sim 14.9% ★, Space 10.5%, Resource Management 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building an automated space colony while managing resources in a procedurally generated universe.
- #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 21.6%, Base Building 18.5%, Space 13.1%, Building 11.4%, Space Sim 11.2% ★
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on large-scale automation and resource management across multiple star systems.
- #10 Eden Crafters
90% 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 19.1%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 10.7%, Open World 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on terraforming and building complex automated systems to survive on a hostile planet.
- #11 Stationeers
91% 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 18.7%, Base Building 17.2%, Building 13%, Space 11.3%, Survival 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A more hardcore survival experience that requires deep knowledge of atmospheric, electrical, and logic systems.
- #12 No Man's Sky
89% 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: Space 18.9%, Open World 18.7%, Space Sim 18.1% ★, Survival 12.1%, Sci-fi 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an infinite universe to explore, with extensive survival, crafting, and base-building mechanics.
- #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: Base Building 16.5%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 11.7%, Open World 11.4%, Space 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic survival and base-building game focused on the challenges of colonizing the Martian surface.
- #14 Forever Skies
87% 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: Base Building 19%, Survival 12.8%, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique high-tech airship base that you must maintain and expand while surviving in a ruined world.
- #15 MewnBase
85% matchVery Positive93% of 1,428 reviews2023
Dev: Cairn4
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.6 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 23%, Crafting 14.3%, Building 14.1%, Space 13.4%, Survival 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: A charming yet challenging base-building game focused on surviving on a desolate moon.
- #16 Project Asteroids
86% matchMixed56% of 128 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 crafting and survival while navigating the hazards of an asteroid field.
- #17 ICARUS
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 22.1%, Survival 18.2%, Building 13.5%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that emphasizes crafting and resource management under strict time constraints.
- #18 Space Haven
84% 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 21.8% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Building 11.7%, Survival 10.5%, Space 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with space survival, requiring you to build and maintain a functional spaceship.
- #19 Star Crafter
82% 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 14.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Space 10.7%, Resource Management 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A dedicated crafting and mining game set in space that emphasizes resource management.
- #20 Skyformer
82% 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 17%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 10.7%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Integrates automation and base-building into a survival-crafting framework.
- #21 Voidtrain
81% 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: Base Building 22.2%, Survival 16.9%, Building 14.6%, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 14.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique survival experience where you build and upgrade a train traveling through a mysterious void.
- #22 Raft
80% 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: Survival 29.2%, Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 16.2%, Building 16.1%, Open World 14.2%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the core loop of gathering resources from the environment to expand a mobile base in a dangerous setting.
- #23 Craterbound
83% 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 16.1%, Space 12.5%, Survival 12%, Open World 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and survival within the craters of a harsh, alien landscape.
- #24 The Last Caretaker
78% 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%, Base Building 19%, Survival 13%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused game that emphasizes base-building and crafting in an isolated setting.
- #25 Jitter
79% 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 33.4% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Space 15.2%, Open World 13.8%, Sci-fi 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A space-themed adventure that focuses on exploration and survival in an open world.
- #26 Remains
81% 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: Base Building 19%, Building 14.8%, Space 13.8%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: A space survival game that tasks you with scavenging and crafting to stay alive in a derelict environment.
- #27 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
77% 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: Base Building 17.3%, Automation 16.5%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 9.8%
- #28 Starcom: Nexus
79% matchVery Positive91% of 2,274 reviews2019
Dev: Wx3 Labs, LLC
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 13.6 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 12.2%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a blend of space exploration and RPG elements with a focus on ship customization.
- #29 XenoHaven
78% 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: Base Building 18%, Open World 13.5%, Survival 12.4%, Building 11.9%, Automation 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that tasks players with building a base on an alien world.
- #30 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
77% 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: Base Building 18.9%, Survival 14.4%, Open World 12%, Crafting 11.5%, Automation 9.6%
- #31 Space Trash Scavenger
76% 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 16.7%, Space Sim 13.9% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Space 10.3%, Survival 9.8%
- #32 StarRupture
72% 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 22.2%, Base Building 20.9%, Survival 13.8%, Open World 13.2%, Crafting 12.5%
- #33 Prospector
74% 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 15.2%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 11.3%, Resource Management 10.5%, Open World 9.6%
- #34 Final Upgrade
75% 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 18.1% ★, Automation 17.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 11.9%, Space 11%
- #35 Space Engineers 2
71% 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 22.6% ★, Building 15.6%, Space 13.5%, Survival 12.9%, Open World 11.5%
- #36 AETHUS
68% 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: Base Building 15%, Automation 13.5%, Building 11.1%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 9.9%
- #37 Evospace
73% 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: Base Building 21.8%, Automation 19.9%, Crafting 15.9%, Building 15.4%, Open World 13.3%
- #38 Interstellar Rift
73% 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 28.5% ★, Building 13.2%, Open World 11%, Crafting 10.8%, Space 9.9%
- #39 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 198 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 20.2%, Base Building 17.9%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 11.9%, Crafting 11.7%
- #40 Blossom: The Seed of Life
68% 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 21.1% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Automation 11.9%, Building 9.9%, Crafting 8.3%
- #41 Oxygen: First Breath
70% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 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 31.1%, Survival 18.7%, Resource Management 18.6%, Building 18.6%, Crafting 10.2%
- #42 Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,144 reviews2020
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.1 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 26.1% ★, Automation 12.9%, Space 10.6%, Building 9.5%, Crafting 9.3%
- #43 World Crafter TD: Prologue
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 99 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 20.8%, Base Building 19.9%, Resource Management 14.1%, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 11.4%
- #44 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 29.8% ★, Automation 14.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 10.4%, Survival 9%
- #45 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 22.3% ★, Automation 15%, Base Building 12.8%, Space 9.6%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #46 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 15.9%, Building 15.1%, Inventory Management 14.2%, Crafting 13.5%
- #47 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 21.8% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Open World 11.1%, Space 10.4%, Survival 10.3%
- #48 Surviving Ceres
66% matchVery Positive87% of 137 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 20.4%, Building 18.1%, Survival 16.3%, Crafting 15.7%, Open World 13.9%
- #49 Drift: Space Survival
67% 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: Space 16.7%, Survival 16.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 14.8%, Crafting 13.4%
- #50 Mr. Prepper: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive83% of 2,554 reviews2020
Dev: Rejected GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.8 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 22.3%, Crafting 22.1%, Resource Management 21.7%, Adventure 3.5%
- #51 Outerstellar
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 168 reviews2023
Dev: Strange Horizons Ltd
Windows
Stranded on a hostile and deadly planet, you must gather resources, build shelter, and fight to survive each night. But the secrets of this world await in a gripping sci-fi survival PvP game.
Why similar: Base Building 21.9%, Survival 17.5%, Space 15.2%, Crafting 14.7%, Building 14.1%