- #1 The Planet Crafter
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 71,038 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 38.2 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: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Space 9.5%, Survival 8.6%, Open World 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers the closest alien-planet loop of gathering resources, building outposts, and gradually terraforming a hostile world into something livable.
- #2 Satisfactory
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 273,405 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.9 hrsMean: 110.9 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 14.9% ★, Open World 11.1%, Automation 10.7%, Multiplayer 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It shares ASTRONEER's satisfying gather-build-expand rhythm but leans harder into automation and large-scale production on an alien world.
- #3 No Man's Sky
96% matchVery Positive85% of 410,213 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.5 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 35.9% ★, Space 15.2%, Open World 13.3%, Survival 8.3%, Multiplayer 6%
Why You'll Like It: If ASTRONEER's appeal is hopping between planets, building bases, and exploring colorful sci-fi worlds, this is the biggest and most direct alternative.
- #4 Eden Crafters
95% matchVery Positive86% of 2,494 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 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: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Open World 8%, Automation 7.7%, Space 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Like ASTRONEER, it centers on reshaping an alien environment through resource chains, base growth, and terraforming-driven progression.
- #5 Lightyear Frontier
94% matchVery Positive84% of 4,521 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 33.8% ★, Base Building 13%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its peaceful alien-planet setting, modular base-building, and cozy exploration capture ASTRONEER's gentler sandbox spirit especially well.
- #6 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,243 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: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Space 11.7%, Open World 9.2%, Survival 9.1%, Co-op 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This combines planetary survival, crafting, base-building, and interplanetary travel in a way that strongly overlaps with ASTRONEER's sci-fi sandbox appeal.
- #7 Space Engineers
93% matchVery Positive89% of 133,889 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 15.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Open World 12.5%, Survival 12.1%, Sandbox 10%
Why You'll Like It: Its voxel-based construction, mining, and engineering sandbox offers the same spacefaring creativity and hands-on problem solving, just with more realism.
- #8 Techtonica
92% matchMixed65% of 3,212 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.4 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 18.2%, Automation 15.2%, Building 12%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes mysterious alien-world exploration with mining, conveyor automation, and base expansion in a way that should click with ASTRONEER fans.
- #9 Subnautica
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 373,268 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: Open World Survival Craft 39.3% ★, Survival 13%, Open World 11.3%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Although underwater instead of in space, it matches ASTRONEER's lonely wonder, exploration-driven progression, and base-building on an alien frontier.
- #10 Scrap Mechanic
91% matchVery Positive92% of 117,723 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.4 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 14.7%, Survival 14.2%, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 12.1%, Multiplayer 11%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op sandbox of gathering resources and building clever machines scratches a similar creative-engineering itch even without the space setting.
- #11 FOUNDRY
90% matchVery Positive81% of 3,835 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 47.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 12.9%, Automation 10.6%, Co-op 10.1%, Sandbox 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its first-person factory-building on a deformable voxel world makes it a great fit if your favorite part of ASTRONEER was digging, building, and automating.
- #12 Astro Colony
89% matchVery Positive81% of 2,634 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 16.2 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 19.2%, Space 18.2%, Automation 12.3%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Open World 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It blends space exploration, automation, and expandable off-world bases for a lighter, more colony-focused version of the same fantasy.
- #13 Forever Skies
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,533 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 31.9 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 28.3% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Open World 10.1%, Survival 10%, Co-op 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its sci-fi survival, crafting, and exploration loop nails the feeling of venturing through an unfamiliar world while constantly upgrading your mobile base.
- #14 TerraTech
88% matchVery Positive91% of 24,716 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 32.9 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 34.5% ★, Open World 12.8%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.9%, Multiplayer 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its vehicle-building and resource-driven exploration deliver a similarly playful loop of experimentation and traversal across strange worlds.
- #15 Breathedge
87% matchVery Positive82% of 16,292 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 35.4% ★, Space 14%, Base Building 10.2%, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This offers a more comedic but still familiar mix of space survival, crafting, scavenging, and building in a hostile sci-fi environment.
- #16 Occupy Mars: The Game
86% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,088 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.1 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: Space 13.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Open World 12.5%, Survival 10.9%, Sandbox 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This is a more grounded and simulation-heavy take on surviving, building, and managing infrastructure on an off-world frontier.
- #17 TerraTech Worlds
86% matchMixed63% of 2,250 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 25.5% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Open World 8.2%, Survival 7.9%, Sandbox 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: Building mobile vehicles, harvesting resources, and surviving across open alien landscapes makes this a strong mechanical match for ASTRONEER's sandbox side.
- #18 Raft
84% matchVery Positive93% of 373,485 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: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Survival 14.6%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Co-op 8.8%, Open World 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival, steady base expansion, and exploration-forward progression echo ASTRONEER's satisfying pace even in a very different setting.
- #19 Stationeers
85% matchVery Positive88% of 9,070 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 84.1 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 14.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 12.2%, Automation 10.4%, Sandbox 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: If you liked ASTRONEER's base management and off-world logistics, this offers a deeper and more technical version of that experience.
- #20 Voidtrain
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,560 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 14.0 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 36.3% ★, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 9%, Open World 8.1%, Co-op 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes co-op survival crafting and mobile-base progression with a sense of strange-world discovery that overlaps nicely with ASTRONEER.
- #21 Space Trash Scavenger
83% matchVery Positive84% of 520 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: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Space 10.8%, Survival 8.8%, Open World 8.2%, Automation 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of building up a space outpost from salvaged resources while exploring a colorful sci-fi sandbox.
- #22 Hydroneer
82% matchVery Positive86% of 28,029 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.9 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 18.5%, Open World 13.9%, Automation 12.8%, Sandbox 12.1%, Co-op 12%
Why You'll Like It: The tactile digging, resource processing, and automation systems make it a great fit for players who loved ASTRONEER's hands-on gathering and base growth.
- #23 Abiotic Factor
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 56,173 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 44.9 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 34.6% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 8.5%, Sandbox 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op crafting, science-fiction setting, and system-driven base progression appeal to the same kind of players who enjoy tinkering and surviving in ASTRONEER.
- #24 Trailmakers
81% matchVery Positive92% of 36,674 reviews2019
Dev: Flashbulb
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.5 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 10.3%, Multiplayer 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its physics-based vehicle building and open-ended exploration are ideal if ASTRONEER's rover experimentation and playful sandbox feel were your favorite parts.
- #25 Grounded
80% matchVery Positive90% of 94,448 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 41.5 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 32.2% ★, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Co-op 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Despite the backyard setting, it shares ASTRONEER's accessible co-op survival loop of exploration, crafting, and steadily improving a home base.
- #26 ICARUS
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 64,520 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: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Survival 11.1%, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 8%, Multiplayer 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers mission-based planetary survival with robust building and resource systems for players who want a tougher, more demanding variation on the formula.
- #27 Valheim
78% matchVery Positive94% of 535,809 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.9 hrsMean: 77.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Survival 10.7%, Open World 10.1%, Base Building 8.7%, Multiplayer 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its rewarding exploration, construction, and co-op progression make it a strong recommendation for players who enjoy structured sandbox survival.
- #28 Starbound
79% matchVery Positive90% of 123,040 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 64.3 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 38.6% ★, Space 9.7%, Sandbox 9.3%, Survival 8%, Open World 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its planet-hopping structure, crafting, exploration, and base-building make it a great 2D alternative to ASTRONEER's spacefaring sandbox loop.
- #29 Astrometica
77% matchVery Positive83% of 3,114 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 20.3% ★, Space 14%, Open World 13.6%, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 11.6%
- #30 StarRupture
76% matchVery Positive81% of 12,717 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 23.8 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 27.2% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Open World 9.1%, Survival 9.1%, Automation 7.6%
- #31 Oxygen Not Included
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 141,608 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 68.3 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%, Survival 22.9%, Building 11.3%, Space 10.6%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #32 Craftopia
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 20,075 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Open World 16.5%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Multiplayer 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This is a broad sandbox mashup, but its open-world gathering, building, automation, and co-op experimentation can scratch a similar itch.
- #33 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,685 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: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 9.4%, Multiplayer 7.7%
- #34 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
75% matchVery Positive91% of 7,475 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: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Base Building 10%, Open World 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Automation 6.4%
- #35 STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions
74% matchMixed60% of 723 reviews2026
Dev: System Era SoftworksPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Join the ESS Starseeker crew to explore strange new worlds, working together with friends to complete planet-wide objectives before the station journeys on to new planetary destinations. Collect and unlock powerful tech to help the crew tackle the perils of space!
Why similar: Space 30%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Open World 13.4%, Sandbox 11.8%, Exploration 9.2%
- #36 Stranded Deep
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,543 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 21.0 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 43.9% ★, Survival 13.9%, Open World 9.8%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Crafting 6.6%
- #37 Subnautica: Below Zero
73% matchVery Positive90% of 107,083 reviews2021
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.5 hrsMean: 29.6 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 12.2%, Open World 10.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Multiplayer 7%
- #38 Core Keeper
71% matchVery Positive93% of 65,043 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.1 hrsMean: 34.4 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% ★, Open World 10.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Survival 9.8%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #39 Planet Explorers
75% 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 39.5% ★, Open World 12.4%, Sandbox 10.8%, Survival 8.6%, Multiplayer 6.4%
- #40 Forager
72% matchVery Positive90% of 43,651 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 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 43.7% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 7.8%, Sandbox 6.5%
- #41 Dyson Sphere Program
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 90,956 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: Space 22.4%, Base Building 20.4%, Automation 16%, Open World 13.6%, Building 10.3%
- #42 Solarpunk™
68% matchVery Positive82% of 2,601 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 8.5%, Survival 8.1%, Co-op 7.4%
- #43 Factorio
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 230,973 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 45.0 hrsMean: 191.3 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 22.7%, Automation 18.3%, Sandbox 11.4%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 9.3%
- #44 Ylands
72% matchMixed64% of 8,407 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 34.1% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Crafting 8.3%
- #45 GRAV
73% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 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 35.6% ★, Survival 11.3%, Open World 10.3%, Base Building 9.7%, Space 7.5%
- #46 Volcanoids
71% matchVery Positive83% of 9,287 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 14.8%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 12.1%, Sandbox 10.4%, Co-op 10.3%
- #47 SpaceCraft
68% matchMixed69% of 1,804 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 24.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 16.3%, Open World 12.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, Multiplayer 9.4%
- #48 Subnautica 2
65% matchVery Positive91% of 118,544 reviews2026
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone or with friends in 4-player co-op. Adapt to survive by building custom bases and crafting tools. Explore the unknown to uncover the mysteries hidden within the depths.
Why similar: Survival 21.2%, Open World 17.4%, Multiplayer 16.6%, Co-op 14.8%, Exploration 9.4%
- #49 Kerbal Space Program
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 142,914 reviews2015
Dev: SquadPub: Private Division
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 66.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Why similar: Space 41.2%, Sandbox 20.7%, Building 12.5%, Open World 11.1%, Exploration 4.9%
- #50 Scrapnaut
70% matchMixed70% of 831 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Survival 11.5%, Building 8.8%, Co-op 8.5%, Base Building 8.3%
- #51 Creativerse
70% 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 29.9% ★, Open World 10.1%, Survival 10%, Sandbox 8.4%, Co-op 8%
- #52 Star Crafter
68% 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: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Space 11.4%, Base Building 11%, Survival 7.4%, Crafting 7.4%
- #53 Space Engineers 2
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,685 reviews2025
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 8.1 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 19.7%, Survival 15.8%, Open World 14.7%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 12.1%
- #54 Skyformer
67% 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: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Space 10.1%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 9%
- #55 Outworld Station
65% matchVery Positive85% of 776 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Space 20.5%, Base Building 18.7%, Automation 14.4%, Co-op 12.2%, Sandbox 11%
- #56 Cubic Odyssey
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,655 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 37.2% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Co-op 9.5%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 8.2%
- #57 Force of Nature
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,204 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Survival 11.7%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 7.1%
