- #1 Prospector
97% matchMixed70% of 152 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 16.7% ★, Automation 13.5%, Base Building 11.3%, Robots 9%, Crafting 8.5%
- #2 Nova Lands
96% matchVery Positive89% of 3,544 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.2% ★, Automation 16.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Robots 8.4%, Crafting 7.9%
- #3 Untethered
96% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: True Anomaly Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Untethered is a space survival-sandbox set in our own cosmic backyard. Explore zero-gravity environments, build and operate realistic space stations, and fight to stay alive in the unforgiving realm of deep space.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Automation 14.2%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 8.1%, Survival 8%
- #4 Space
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Neila Games
Windows
Stranded on a hostile alien world, you must gather resources, craft tools, and automate production to survive. Build a base, fend off deadly wildlife, and uncover ancient secrets in this immersive sci-fi survival adventure. Will you conquer the planet or succumb to its perils?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.1% ★, Automation 14.3%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Space 8.5%
- #5 Factory Survival
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Roman Software
Windows
Build and create automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 3D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally escape from creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Automation 20.1%, Base Building 14%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 8.1%
- #6 Eden Crafters
94% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 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 25.2% ★, Automation 16.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 7%
- #7 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
93% matchMostly Positive73% of 208 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: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Automation 17.4%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #8 Chocolate Factory
92% matchMixed56% of 152 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!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Automation 17.2%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.4%, Resource Management 9%
- #9 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
91% matchVery Positive91% of 7,668 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 27.6% ★, Automation 13.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 8.9%, Resource Management 6.7%
- #10 Sandustry
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 23.9% ★, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 8.6%
- #11 The Planet Crafter
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 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 24.8% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Automation 11.8%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 7.8%
- #12 Astral Divide
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sébastien Aoki
Windows · Linux
You wake up alone in a damaged space station with no memories. To get out of here, you will have to build your own spaceship. But survival comes first: gather resources, build a base and a factory out of gear and steam, and explore hand-crafted planets with unique biomes and resources.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Automation 16.5%, Base Building 9.3%, Sandbox 8.8%, Crafting 8.6%
- #13 Space Crafter
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sirhyss Games
Windows
Go on an adventure in the footsteps of an ancient civilisation. Explore hostile planets, build your base and acquire the technologies of the past before they are turned to create chaos.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Automation 12.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #14 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,722 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 28% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 10%, Survival 9.5%, Automation 8%
- #15 Candy Factory TD
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
Build a candy factory to defend against waves of candy creatures! A first-person tower defense factory building automation game. Manage productions, build candy turrets, expand the island, and beat the waves!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.6% ★, Automation 17.4%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 9.7%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #16 Star Crafter
86% matchMostly Positive70% of 110 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 24.7% ★, Automation 13.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 10%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #17 XenoHaven
85% matchVery Positive82% of 73 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: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Automation 9.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #18 Satisfactory
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 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 22.2%, Base Building 18.8%, Open World Survival Craft 13.4% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Building 8.8%
- #19 Miniland Adventure: Prologue
84% 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: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #20 Space Trash Scavenger
84% matchVery Positive83% of 528 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 27.3% ★, Automation 16.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Base Building 8.9%, Space 8.9%
- #21 PoliPlanet
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 19.2%, Open World Survival Craft 15.6% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #22 Drift: Space Survival
82% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 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 33.7% ★, Space 10.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 9.6%
- #23 Deus Mantle
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 1SPEED
Windows
Craft, build, fight monsters, discover new technologies and explore an infinite procedurally generated world! Delve into unknown worlds to uncover ancient secrets and return home.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Automation 14.9%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 8.5%
- #24 Terra Taker
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dream Craft
Windows
Terra Taker is an open-world survival crafting game where you build megastructures to terraform a fantasy planet. Gather resources, build automated bases, and transform floating islands, tornadoes, snowfields, lava zones, and lightning-scorched lands into a new paradise for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Automation 15.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 8.2%
- #25 Quest Industries
79% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Damask
Windows
Mine resources, build a factory, hire goblins, launch a space rocket. A short and satisfying factory builder about turning a one-goblin operation into a sprawling industrial empire.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Automation 14.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #26 FortressCraft Evolved!
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,066 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.5 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 33.6% ★, Automation 18.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 9.1%
- #27 Skyformer
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 96 reviews2026
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! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Automation 17.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10%, Survival 7.9%
- #28 ASTRONEER
79% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 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: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Space 11.1%, Survival 9.6%, Automation 8.3%
- #29 Lunar Impact
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Artem Rumyantsev
Windows
Go to the Moon to explore its harsh nature and mysterious anomalies. Build your own lunar base, craft equipment, extract valuable resources and make many discoveries. Overcome the challenges of extreme lunar conditions, an oxygen-free atmosphere and much more unknown...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.1%, Science 10.1%, Building 9.3%
- #30 Moose Builders
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lingon Studios
Windows
Dig sand with a shovel and process into iron, silicon and more. Craft and merge better tools and machines to build solar panels to power them. Research new machines to automate everything in multi-story factories. Play alone or with friends to survive in the desert and turn it into a solar farm.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Automation 17.5%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 7.1%
- #31 AstroPlanet
77% matchMixed67% of 43 reviews2025
Dev: VIVA
Windows
AstroPlanet is a sandbox game where you find yourself in the role of an astronaut whose ship has crashed on a planet with an inhospitable atmosphere. Your task is not only to survive, but also to turn this world into a habitable place.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 9.2%
- #32 Kind Heart Survivors
76% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: LUDO Thinking
Windows
Kind Heart Survivors is a space survival adventure that challenges you to survive on an unknown planet. Explore, gather resources, craft items, cook abundantly, and prove that you can survive anywhere in the galaxy.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.1% ★, Crafting 15.3%, Inventory Management 14.4%, Survival 12%, Space 11.3%
- #33 Golemcrafter
76% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Good Sheep Syndicate
Windows
Golemcrafter is a single-player survival crafting game where you, as a golem, explore a magical world, gather resources, build a base, harness the local wildlife, and craft powerful golems like yourself. Make friends, gain powers!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Automation 14.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 9.2%
- #34 Last Breath
75% matchVery Positive84% of 80 reviews2026
Dev: Mx
Windows
Last Breath is a solo/cooperative terraforming survival game. Dig through terrain, build powerful machines, and restore life to a dead planet. Work together to survive, automate, and reshape the world from the ground up, literally.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 9.7%, Science 8.4%
- #35 SpiritBorn
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Highforge Studios
Windows
An open-world survival crafting RPG set among floating islands. Gather resources, craft powerful tools, unlock spirit abilities to soar between skybound realms and reclaim your lost godhood.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.8% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Base Building 12%, Survival 10.5%, Building 9.7%
- #36 Cosmorists
74% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Stellar Roots
Windows
You find yourself completely alone on a different yet very familiar looking planet. Explore the planet, craft tools, fight enemies, and build bases! Do science to learn new technologies that will allow interplanetary travel and better tools at your disposal!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 9.3%, Survival 9%
- #37 Miniland Adventure
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 334 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 52%
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 while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.5%
- #38 Bot Crafter
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Dreams
Windows
Construct, maintain, manage and upgrade the fleet of your space robots in this sandbox crafter. Build the base, gather resources and automate to succeed in your mission in a unique robotic spacesim.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.1% ★, Automation 13.7%, Base Building 11.1%, Robots 9.6%, Crafting 8.6%
- #39 TerraTech Worlds
73% matchMixed63% of 2,297 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 21.8 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 27.1% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Automation 11.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 9%
- #40 Moon Colony Crafter
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: InfinityCoders
Windows
Play as an astronaut on our moon in the future. Your task is to prepare the moon for future colonies by terraforming. Collect resources, explore procedurally generated caves, build buildings and create a second world for you and our earth.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.5%, Space 8.2%
- #41 Honeycomb: The World Beyond
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 228 reviews2026
Dev: Frozen WayPub: Snail Games USA
Windows
Honeycomb: The World Beyond is a sci-fi survival adventure set on the vibrant alien planet of Sota7. Adapt by building your base and crafting essential tools. Explore diverse biomes and use your bioengineering experience to uncover mysteries and secure humanity's future.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Science 14.4%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 7.8%
- #42 Starsand
72% matchMixed66% of 1,268 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 10%, Inventory Management 9.4%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #43 AETHUS
69% matchVery Positive95% of 2,081 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.6% ★, Automation 13.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 8.3%
- #44 Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival
71% matchMixed68% of 849 reviews2023
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
TIME TRAVEL through history to BECOME GOD 🚀 Ride dinosaurs, forge tools, sail dunes, build a colony, siege castles, automate and fly, mine underground, launch to the moon, build a dyson sphere! An insane, unforgettable and revolutionary survival crafting base building open world adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Automation 16.3%, Base Building 14%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 8.8%
- #45 Wreckborn
69% matchPositive96% of 27 reviews2025
Dev: Krystian Dobaczewski
Windows
Cleanse the system of pirates, destroy their bases and free the captives. On the asteroids, build a base, mining colonies, explore asteroids and extract resources needed for survival. Develop buildings, build defenses and turn the asteroid into a fortress.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Automation 16%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 10%, Building 8.4%
- #46 Red Planet: Survive
73% matchNegative12% of 49 reviews2017
Dev: Silent Parrot Studio
Windows
Red Planet: Survive is a first person survival game for Microsoft Windows. Surviving in the harsh conditions of the Red Planet will be hard, but if you are strong enough, you will succeed. Find the best way to survive, but be careful, since each wrong step will ensure your demise. The environment is your main enemy.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 8.7%, Crafting 8.2%, Space 7.9%
- #47 Breathedge
70% matchVery Positive81% of 18,514 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 36.5% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Space 12.5%, Survival 9.8%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #48 Alone in the Outback
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Happy Dinosaur Games
Windows
Alone in the Outback is a story-driven survival experience. Traverse through the Australian outback, survive deadly heat of the day and cold of the night. Stay hydrated and choose your strategy to survive the dangerous Australian wildlife. Explore the territory to find out why you are here alone...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Exploration 5.9%
- #49 LithoBreak
71% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Tau Ceti Labs
Windows
LithoBreak is an Early Access industrial survival game rebuilding toward one moon-site loop: boot up the console, build the first site, and help shape a science-driven survival sim.Play with Science
Why similar: Automation 17.3%, Open World Survival Craft 16.8% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #50 Dragon Forge
70% matchMixed50% of 114 reviews2022
Dev: Legend Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become a powerful dragon & automate massive factories! Dragon Forge is an incremental base building adventure game. Uncurse & explore a huge fantasy world full of quests. Gather resources & craft upgrades to become unstoppable! Discover over 100 fables of ancient wisdom at the Dragon Forge.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.6% ★, Automation 17.2%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 9.1%, Building 8.6%
- #51 A Life Ashore
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: daggg3rPub: daggg3r studio
Windows
After a rough landing on a remote tropical island, turn survival into a life of your own. Observe the land, gather and salvage what it offers, build a dependable home, and settle into practical routines through rain, heat, and changing days.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.5% ★, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 10.1%
- #52 World Turned Stone
68% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: Tbjbu2 (GAME ON HOLD)
Windows
Civilization has turned STONE. Revive the people, terraform the world, defend against the apocalypse, and rebuild civilization from the stone age to advanced technology! Prologue link below.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Automation 17.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 12.2%, Resource Management 9%
- #53 Astrometica
67% matchVery Positive82% of 3,211 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 19.3 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 16.4% ★, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 10.2%
- #54 GreenMars: Expedition 744
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 744 Interactive
Windows
A sci-fi survival game where you explore a full planet, gather resources, build your base, deploy terraforming machines and drones, and begin turning hostile Martian terrain into the foundation of a new civilisation.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Building 10.4%, Survival 9.2%, Space 9%
- #55 Blue Energy
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ROWAN FUTURE
Windows
100000 years after the apocalypse, a mysterious entity guides you to build a factory on a desert island...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Automation 17.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 9.2%
- #56 Claycrafter
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: scoz
Windows
Gather resources, build structures, and craft increasingly wondrous items to unlock the secrets of a mysterious world made entirely out of clay.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.8% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 6.7%
- #57 Forever Skies
66% matchMostly Positive78% of 9,059 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.5 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 26% ★, Base Building 14%, Science 12.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 8.7%
- #58 Necesse
65% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42% ★, Automation 10.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Base Building 9.5%, Sandbox 8.3%