Games Like ASTRONEER

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 27.5% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Space 9.5%, Survival 8.6%, Open World 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same satisfying loop of exploring a hostile planet, gathering resources, expanding a modular base, and gradually transforming the world around you.

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 15.8%, Open World Survival Craft 15.1% ★, Open World 11.2%, Automation 10.4%, Multiplayer 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares ASTRONEER's exploratory resource gathering and base expansion, but leans harder into building sprawling automated production lines.

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36% ★, Space 15.1%, Open World 13.4%, Survival 8.2%, Multiplayer 6%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of ASTRONEER is hopping between strange planets to gather, build, and explore with friends, this is the biggest and most polished version of that fantasy.

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 39.4% ★, Survival 13%, Open World 11.3%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Like ASTRONEER, it combines open-ended survival, environmental discovery, crafting, and base-building with a strong sense of wonder on an alien world.

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 39.8% ★, Survival 12.1%, Open World 10.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Multiplayer 7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers another strong mix of survival, scanning, crafting, and base-building, with a slightly more guided but still discovery-driven alien frontier feel.

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 12.6%, Survival 12.1%, Sandbox 10%

Why You'll Like It: This is a great fit if you want ASTRONEER's sandbox creativity and space survival but with deeper construction systems and more engineering freedom.

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 14.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 12.3%, Automation 10.1%, Sandbox 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It takes the space base-building and survival-management side of ASTRONEER in a much more complex and simulation-heavy direction.

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 34% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its bright sci-fi atmosphere, calm exploration, terraforming-adjacent farming, and building on an alien world make it one of the closest tonal matches to ASTRONEER.

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 14.9%, Survival 14.2%, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 12%, Base Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the same playful sandbox spirit of gathering, building, and experimenting with systems, especially if you enjoy co-op creativity over strict survival.

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 28% ★, Space 11.7%, Open World 9.3%, Survival 9.1%, Co-op 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It blends planetary survival, space travel, resource gathering, base-building, and co-op in a way that overlaps heavily with ASTRONEER's broader sci-fi sandbox appeal.

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 18.3%, Automation 12%, Open World 9.6%, Multiplayer 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its space setting, automation chains, mining, and expandable bases make it feel like a more logistics-focused cousin to ASTRONEER.

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 18.4%, Automation 14.9%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It scratches the same cave exploration and resource progression itch while adding a very ASTRONEER-friendly layer of first-person factory building and automation.

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 27.6% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Open World 8.1%, Space 7.6%, Automation 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like ASTRONEER and The Planet Crafter, it centers on gathering resources, building infrastructure, and reshaping a barren world into something livable.

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 35.1% ★, Space 13.8%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 9.9%, Sandbox 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is a solid pick if you want ASTRONEER's sci-fi survival and crafting in a more narrative, solo, and space-station-wreck style setting.

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 36.3% ★, Survival 14.6%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Co-op 8.7%, Open World 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It matches the same steady progression from scavenging to larger builds and better tech, with co-op survival and exploration driving the experience.

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 25.6% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Open World 8.3%, Survival 7.9%, Sandbox 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes open-world survival crafting with modular vehicles and base-building on alien terrain, capturing ASTRONEER's sense of tinkering and exploration.

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 32.3% ★, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Co-op 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Despite the backyard setting, it shares ASTRONEER's approachable co-op survival, handcrafted exploration, base construction, and lighthearted tone.

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 18.6%, Open World 14.1%, Automation 12.6%, Sandbox 12.1%, Co-op 12%

Why You'll Like It: Its appeal comes from the same tactile gather-build-automate loop, even if the setting shifts from space exploration to mining and machinery.

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 34.7% ★, Open World 12.9%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.9%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its modular vehicle building and colorful open-world sandbox design make it a strong fit for players who love ASTRONEER's toy-like experimentation.

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: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 10%, Open World 9.9%, Sandbox 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on surviving and building up a planetary outpost through resource management, vehicles, and infrastructure on a lonely sci-fi frontier.

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 28.4% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Open World 10.3%, Survival 10%, Co-op 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person sci-fi survival, crafting, and mobile base progression should click if you like ASTRONEER's exploratory loop and environmental mystery.

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 36.6% ★, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 9%, Open World 8.1%, Co-op 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It blends co-op survival crafting, traveling through surreal space, and expanding a mobile base in a way that captures ASTRONEER's adventurous sandbox energy.

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 28.8% ★, Space 10.8%, Survival 8.8%, Open World 8.3%, Automation 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers relaxing space salvage, modular construction, crafting, and automation in a compact sandbox that echoes ASTRONEER's low-pressure sci-fi vibe.

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 38.8% ★, Space 9.7%, Sandbox 9.3%, Survival 8%, Open World 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This 2D alternative keeps the same core appeal of visiting planets, collecting resources, crafting gear, and building bases across a spacefaring sandbox.

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 30.5% ★, Survival 11.1%, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is more punishing than ASTRONEER, but the focus on co-op planetary survival, crafting, and building makes it a worthwhile step up in intensity.

The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.

Why similar: Base Building 25.4%, Survival 17%, Multiplayer 15.6%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines alien-world expansion, resource extraction, tech progression, and base-building, though with more combat than ASTRONEER.

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 25.1% ★, Open World 10.6%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 10%, Sandbox 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Although not sci-fi, it delivers a similarly cozy and addictive mix of exploration, resource gathering, crafting, and collaborative base-building.

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 27.5% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Open World 9.2%, Survival 9.1%, Automation 7.4%

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 29% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Open World 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Survival 6.3%

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 12.4%, Open World 12.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Co-op 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the survival-crafting-and-base-progression loop, but with the twist of a mobile drill-base and a more hostile steampunk world.

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 20.5% ★, Space 14%, Open World 13.8%, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 11.6%

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 39.6% ★, Open World 12.5%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 8.6%, Multiplayer 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is an older and rougher sandbox, but its alien-planet survival, building, exploration, and crafting put it in ASTRONEER's broader neighborhood.

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 29.6% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 9.4%, Multiplayer 7.6%

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 30.1%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Open World 13.4%, Sandbox 11.6%, Exploration 9.2%

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 11.3%, Space 10.6%, Sandbox 9%

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 44% ★, Survival 13.9%, Open World 9.9%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Crafting 6.6%

Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 10.2%, Survival 9.3%, Sandbox 8.5%

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 22.3%, Base Building 20.2%, Automation 15.5%, Open World 13.7%, Building 10.2%

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 27.9% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 8.6%, Survival 8.1%, Co-op 7.4%

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 25.3% ★, Survival 11.5%, Building 8.8%, Co-op 8.5%, Base Building 8.3%

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 17.7%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Co-op 14.6%, Exploration 9.3%

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! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 8.8%, Open World 8.2%, Automation 7.8%

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 34.3% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 10.3%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Crafting 8.3%

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 25.2%, Open World 12.6%, Survival 11.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 9.3%

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 43.8% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Base Building 7.7%, Sandbox 6.4%

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 16.4%, Open World 13.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, Multiplayer 9.4%

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 35.8% ★, Survival 11.3%, Open World 10.4%, Base Building 9.7%, Space 7.5%

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 30.1% ★, Space 11.4%, Base Building 11%, Survival 7.4%, Crafting 7.3%

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Open World 10.2%, Survival 10%, Sandbox 8.3%, Co-op 7.9%

Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Survival 14.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Open World 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.6%

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 14.5%, Open World 13.1%, Automation 10.3%, Co-op 10%, Sandbox 9.9%

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 19.8%, Survival 15.8%, Open World 14.9%, Sandbox 13.5%, Building 12.1%

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 20.6%, Base Building 18.8%, Automation 14%, Co-op 12.2%, Sandbox 11%

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 37.4% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Co-op 9.4%, Sandbox 9.2%, Building 8.2%

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 34.7% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 8.5%, Sandbox 7.3%

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 34.5% ★, Space 12.6%, Survival 10.4%, Base Building 7.5%, Crafting 6.4%

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 17.3%, Open World 15.5%, Survival 15.4%, Automation 12.2%, Sandbox 11.9%