- #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 26.9% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Space 9.3%, Survival 8.6%, Open World 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It captures Astroneer’s satisfying loop of exploring an alien planet, gathering resources, building outward, and slowly transforming a hostile world into something livable.
- #2 Satisfactory
96% 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: Base Building 15.7%, Open World Survival Craft 14.6% ★, Open World 11.1%, Automation 10.8%, Multiplayer 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Like Astroneer, it turns exploration and resource collection on an alien world into a deeply rewarding building and automation sandbox.
- #3 No Man's Sky
96% 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 35.7% ★, Space 15.2%, Open World 13.3%, Survival 8.3%, Multiplayer 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its seamless planet-hopping, base-building, co-op play, and constant sense of spacefaring discovery make it one of the closest large-scale alternatives to Astroneer.
- #4 Eden Crafters
95% 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: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Open World 8.3%, Automation 8.2%, Space 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its first-person planetary survival, terraforming, base expansion, and automation-heavy progression feel very close to Astroneer’s sci-fi sandbox appeal.
- #5 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 39.2% ★, Survival 13.1%, Open World 11.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its emphasis on wonder, survival, handcrafted base-building, and uncovering the mysteries of an alien environment strongly echoes Astroneer’s exploratory side.
- #6 Raft
94% 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 35.9% ★, Survival 14.6%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Co-op 8.8%, Open World 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same satisfying co-op rhythm of scavenging, expanding your home base, researching upgrades, and exploring a dangerous but inviting world.
- #7 Lightyear Frontier
93% matchVery Positive84% of 4,206 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Base Building 13%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: This colorful sci-fi sandbox shares Astroneer’s gentle tone, alien-world exploration, and satisfying build-up from simple gathering to a thriving off-world homestead.
- #8 Grounded
92% matchVery Positive90% of 92,875 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 40.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.8% ★, Survival 15.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Co-op 9%
Why You'll Like It: Even without the space setting, its co-op survival, environmental exploration, and creative base-building scratch a very similar adventurous sandbox itch.
- #9 TerraTech Worlds
91% 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 25.2% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 8.2%, Survival 7.9%, Co-op 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: Building vehicles and bases while roaming a large alien world gives it a similar mix of creative engineering, exploration, and sandbox freedom.
- #10 Scrap Mechanic
91% matchVery Positive92% of 117,049 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 57.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Open World 14.6%, Survival 14.2%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 12.1%, Multiplayer 11%
Why You'll Like It: Its playful co-op sandbox and emphasis on harvesting, crafting, and building inventive machines line up well with Astroneer’s experimental spirit.
- #11 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
90% 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: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Space 11.7%, Open World 9.2%, Survival 9.1%, Co-op 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It expands Astroneer’s space-survival formula into a larger, more combat-driven sandbox of planetary exploration, construction, and co-op progression.
- #12 Space Engineers
89% 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 15.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Open World 12.4%, Survival 12.1%, Sandbox 10%
Why You'll Like It: Its voxel-based mining, construction, and engineering creativity make it a strong match for players who love Astroneer’s build-anywhere sci-fi sandbox feel.
- #13 Occupy Mars: The Game
89% 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: Space 13.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Open World 12.4%, Survival 10.9%, Sandbox 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: If you want Astroneer’s off-world survival and base-building with a more grounded simulation slant, this is an excellent fit.
- #14 Stationeers
88% 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: Space 14.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 12.1%, Automation 10.6%, Sandbox 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a more technical take on surviving and building in space, but the off-world resource management and systems-driven progression are very Astroneer-adjacent.
- #15 FOUNDRY
86% matchVery Positive81% of 3,508 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Base Building 14.4%, Open World 12.8%, Automation 10.8%, Co-op 10.1%, Sandbox 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person factory builder on a deformable voxel world mirrors Astroneer’s joy of digging, expanding, and industrializing a strange landscape.
- #16 Volcanoids
87% 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 30.2% ★, Open World 9.8%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 9.2%, Multiplayer 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This survival crafter mixes resource runs, production upgrades, and a mobile drill-base in a way that will appeal to Astroneer players who enjoy building under pressure.
- #17 Breathedge
86% 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 35% ★, Space 14.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This space survival adventure shares Astroneer’s off-world scavenging and crafting loop, though with a more guided and comedic single-player focus.
- #18 Forever Skies
84% 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 27.9% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Open World 10.2%, Survival 10.1%, Co-op 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines survival-crafting, exploration, and mobile base-building in a lonely sci-fi world, hitting a similar sense of wonder and steady expansion.
- #19 Techtonica
85% 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: Base Building 18.9%, Automation 16%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 10%
Why You'll Like It: Its underground exploration, mining, construction, and growing automation chains make it a great pick if Astroneer’s progression and factory elements were your favorite parts.
- #20 Astro Colony
84% 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 19.1%, Space 17.7%, Automation 12.5%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Open World 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It leans harder into automation, but its space setting, resource chains, and expandable colony-building make it a natural next step from Astroneer.
- #21 TerraTech
83% matchVery Positive91% of 24,455 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 33.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.2% ★, Open World 12.9%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 11%, Multiplayer 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Roaming, harvesting, and building customizable tech on alien terrain gives it a similar exploratory engineering vibe, even if it is more combat-oriented.
- #22 ICARUS
82% 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: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Survival 11.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Open World 8%, Multiplayer 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its mission-based survival, resource extraction, and collaborative base-building offer a more intense but mechanically similar take on planetary progression.
- #23 Hydroneer
81% matchVery Positive86% of 27,097 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Base Building 18.4%, Open World 13.9%, Automation 13%, Sandbox 12.1%, Co-op 12%
Why You'll Like It: Its tactile digging, resource processing, and gradually automated base-building echo the hands-on satisfaction of Astroneer’s gathering and production systems.
- #24 Voidtrain
79% 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 36.2% ★, Base Building 9%, Survival 9%, Open World 8%, Co-op 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival-crafting and steadily upgraded moving base offer a familiar sense of shared progression, exploration, and creative expansion.
- #25 Subnautica: Below Zero
80% matchVery Positive90% of 102,346 reviews2021
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Survival 12.4%, Open World 10.8%, Base Building 10.4%, Multiplayer 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: It preserves the alien exploration, crafting, and base-building strengths of Subnautica in a slightly tighter experience that still resonates with Astroneer fans.
- #26 Starbound
81% matchVery Positive90% of 122,901 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 64.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.3% ★, Space 9.7%, Sandbox 9.4%, Survival 8.1%, Open World 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its planet-by-planet exploration, crafting, and building across a huge sci-fi universe capture Astroneer’s interplanetary sandbox appeal in 2D form.
- #27 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: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 9.3%, Multiplayer 7.8%
- #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 28.5% ★, Base Building 10%, Open World 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Automation 6.5%
- #29 StarRupture
75% 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: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 9.1%, Open World 9.1%, Automation 7.7%
- #30 Oxygen Not Included
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Base Building 29.1%, Survival 22.9%, Building 11.2%, Space 10.6%, Sandbox 9%
- #31 Astrometica
75% 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: Open World Survival Craft 20.1% ★, Space 14%, Open World 13.5%, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 11.7%
- #32 FortressCraft Evolved!
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,055 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37% ★, Automation 9.3%, Sandbox 8.3%, Survival 8.2%, Base Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This voxel-heavy crafting and automation game delivers the same pleasure of mining, constructing, and optimizing production on an alien world.
- #33 Boundless
78% matchMixed70% of 2,766 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 33.0 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Open World 13.3%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its shared-world exploration, terrain manipulation, crafting, and portal-connected planets make it a worthwhile pick for players who love the social sandbox side of Astroneer.
- #34 Space Trash Scavenger
73% 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: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Space 10.8%, Survival 8.8%, Open World 8.2%, Automation 7.8%
- #35 Core Keeper
71% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Open World 10.2%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #36 Stranded Deep
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,062 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.6% ★, Survival 14%, Open World 9.8%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Crafting 6.7%
- #37 Dyson Sphere Program
72% 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: Space 22.2%, Base Building 20.4%, Automation 16.4%, Open World 13.5%, Building 10.2%
- #38 Abiotic Factor
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 52,861 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 42.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #39 Ylands
74% matchMixed64% of 8,354 reviews2019
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Open World 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Crafting 8.4%
- #40 Forager
72% matchVery Positive90% of 43,003 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.2% ★, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 7.8%, Sandbox 6.5%
- #41 Planet Explorers
74% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.2% ★, Open World 12.4%, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 8.7%, Multiplayer 6.4%
- #42 Star Crafter
70% 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 29.6% ★, Space 11.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 7.4%, Survival 7.4%
- #43 Trailmakers
70% matchVery Positive92% of 34,107 reviews2019
Dev: Flashbulb
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.
Why similar: Space 25.3%, Open World 12.5%, Survival 11.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Multiplayer 9.3%
- #44 Cubic Odyssey
69% 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 30.1% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Co-op 8.1%, Sandbox 8%, Open World 8%
- #45 Scrapnaut
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 824 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 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: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Survival 11.5%, Building 8.8%, Co-op 8.6%, Base Building 8.3%
- #46 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 19.5%, Survival 15.8%, Open World 14.7%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 12%
- #47 Creativerse
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Open World 10.1%, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 8.4%, Co-op 8.1%
- #48 GRAV
73% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.3% ★, Survival 11.4%, Open World 10.2%, Base Building 9.8%, Space 7.6%
- #49 Skyformer
68% 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: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Space 10.1%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 9%
- #50 The Last Caretaker
66% 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: Base Building 16.6%, Open World 15.1%, Survival 14.8%, Automation 11.9%, Sandbox 11.5%
- #51 Aloft
67% matchVery Positive84% of 3,496 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Survival 11.9%, Co-op 9.6%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.8%
- #52 Drift: Space Survival
69% 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 34% ★, Space 12.7%, Survival 10.4%, Base Building 7.5%, Crafting 6.5%
- #53 Starbase
70% 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: Open World Survival Craft 20.7% ★, Open World 16.5%, Space 16.5%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #54 Green Hell
67% matchVery Positive85% of 94,379 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.4% ★, Survival 13.3%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Open World 8.4%, Base Building 7.2%
- #55 Don't Starve Together
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 528,033 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 64.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 63.1% ★, Survival 21.5%, Multiplayer 4.3%, Co-op 3.6%, Open World 3.2%
- #56 Per Aspera
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,662 reviews2020
Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Why similar: Base Building 17.6%, Space 16.4%, Automation 13.3%, Survival 13%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #57 Factorio
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 188.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Base Building 22.6%, Automation 18.6%, Sandbox 11.3%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 9.3%
