- #1 Pixelum
97% matchMixed48% of 72 reviews2025
Dev: ZXC Games
Windows
Pixelum is a whole world made up entirely from interactive pixels. Explore procedurally generated sandbox with advanced physics. Dig and mine, fight mobs, build bases, craft items, and progress throughout the pixel canvas!
Why similar: Sandbox 21.2%, Survival 16.5%, Simulation 15.2%, RPG 13%, Physics 12.5%
- #2 Mechanic Miner
96% matchMixed58% of 210 reviews2020
Dev: Hello John
Windows
Put your mechanical skills to the test in a physics-based sandbox where ingenuity and creativity are the ultimate key to survival. Construct fantastical machines, gather resources, acquire new technologies to battle dangerous enemies and use your imagination to shape your world.
Why similar: Science 32%, Crafting 21%, Sandbox 19.5%, Physics 9%, Simulation 4.8%
- #3 Project Chemistry
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 223 reviews2021
Dev: Ata TürkoğluPub: Espale Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 25.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Interact with elements and molecules in a way that you have never before! Observe them and make them react with each other in the sandbox mode. Synthesize every molecule in the quest mode. Discover countless macromolecules and the elegancy of chemistry.
Why similar: Science 37.8%, Education 19.2%, Crafting 17.2%, Sandbox 13.3%, Logic 6.3%
- #4 Sandboxels
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,085 reviews2025
Dev: R74n
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Falling-sand sandbox game with 500+ elements, chemistry, fire, life, food, and anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Science 37.3%, Sandbox 19.7%, Education 19.4%, Crafting 15.4%, Simulation 4.7%
- #5 Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
95% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,163 reviews2020
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.
Why similar: Crafting 23.3%, Sandbox 18.9%, Survival 14.5%, Physics 13.7%, Logic 8.8%
- #6 Scrap Mechanic
92% matchVery Positive92% of 120,816 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.3 hrsMean: 62.7 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: Sandbox 23.8%, Crafting 23.2%, Survival 17.9%, Physics 16.6%, Open World 10.3%
- #7 Primitier
93% matchVery Positive94% of 320 reviews2025
Dev: Ota Mato
Windows
Primitier is a highly flexible VR sandbox game, where you can create tools and machinery by freely cutting and connecting objects in a vast world based on physics simulation.
Why similar: Science 30%, Sandbox 18.6%, Crafting 17.7%, Physics 13.2%, Open World 6.9%
- #8 Adventure Craft
94% matchVery Positive83% of 229 reviews2017
Dev: Edible Entertainment
Windows
Adventure Craft is a challenging procedurally generated sandbox RPG with roguelike elements. Hunt monsters, horde loot, and craft weapons and armor, to survive in a vast ever-changing RPG world full of action, extreme danger and wonderful surprises.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.5%, Action RPG 16.1%, Survival 15.4%, Character Customization 13.2%, Open World 9.7%
- #9 Sand:box
91% matchVery Positive94% of 1,697 reviews2023
Dev: smellymoo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 76.4 hrs≥1hr: 51%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: Science 24.6%, Sandbox 18.3%, Education 16.2%, Physics 10.9%, Crafting 9.9%
- #10 Noita
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 88,203 reviews2020
Dev: Nolla Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 29.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Why similar: Sandbox 25.5%, Physics 24.5%, Crafting 18.9%, Open World 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%
- #11 The Planet Crafter
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 72,570 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.4 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: Crafting 29.9%, Survival 24.9%, Sandbox 24%, Open World 12.5%, Sci-fi 5.8%
- #12 Shards of Azuria
91% matchMixed60% of 101 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Potion Games
Windows
Shards of Azuria is an isometric, craft and build RPG. Create a character and a new world, then start your adventure by waking up in town. You are greeted by the locals of Azuria and begin to find your way around.
Why similar: Crafting 28.4%, Sandbox 21.3%, Survival 15.7%, Action RPG 12.1%, RPG 9.3%
- #13 TerraTech
87% matchVery Positive91% of 24,874 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 32.6 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: Sandbox 32.8%, Crafting 24.7%, Survival 15.2%, Open World 13.6%, Physics 9.2%
- #14 Autocraft
89% matchMixed56% of 298 reviews2017
Dev: Alientrap
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Create, Collect, and Crash in Autocraft, a physics destruction sandbox. Create your own cars, rockets, tanks, planes, boats, and more.
Why similar: Sandbox 40%, Physics 22.4%, Crafting 18.3%, Simulation 15.3%, Open World 3.4%
- #15 Lifecraft
86% matchVery Positive81% of 147 reviews2024
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac
Survive and evolve as an organism with this simulation game in which you will literally start as a single cell and manage and organize all its functions to a fully fledged system! Assemble, breathe, eat, fight threats, produce energy, grow, anything is possible!
Why similar: Science 38.6%, Sandbox 22.4%, Crafting 21.7%, Procedural Generation 6%, Simulation 5%
- #16 Little Rocket Lab
85% matchVery Positive91% of 1,299 reviews2025
Dev: Teenage AstronautsPub: No More Robots
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Transform your childhood home as you build brilliant factories and forge lifelong friendships, then reach for the skies and finally finish your family's dream - your mother's precious rocket ship. Roll up your sleeves, it turns out that saving this town really IS rocket science!
Why similar: Science 39.5%, Crafting 21.9%, Sandbox 18.6%, RPG 7.7%, Logic 3.3%
- #17 Crafting Block World
88% matchMixed46% of 54 reviews2019
Dev: IO Games
Windows
Crafting Block World is an adventure with sandbox elements that will help you build your ideal world!
Why similar: Sandbox 27.3%, Survival 20.8%, Crafting 17.1%, Simulation 10.1%, Procedural Generation 8.4%
- #18 Star Crafter
84% matchMixed70% of 106 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: Crafting 32.6%, Sandbox 21.1%, Survival 18.1%, Simulation 10.4%, Open World 8.8%
- #19 The Sandbox Evolution - Craft a 2D Pixel Universe!
86% matchMixed42% of 1,516 reviews2016
Dev: PIXOWL INC.
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Use your godly powers to craft amazing pixel worlds or destroy the universe! Play with physics, over 200 elements and controllable heroes. Make your own games or levels, and then share your creations online. There are no limits to your creativity and imagination!
Why similar: Sandbox 42.9%, Crafting 18.3%, Physics 13.5%, Simulation 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%
- #20 AutoForge
82% matchVery Positive87% of 463 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Why similar: Crafting 27.8%, Sandbox 26.5%, Procedural Generation 24.3%, Simulation 10%, Sci-fi 6.4%
- #21 Vilmonic
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 86 reviews2018
Dev: Bludgeonsoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Vilmonic is an artificial life simulator and genetics and evolution sandbox game. Protect and breed unique pixel-art life forms where pixels and color have meaning. Craft tools and buildings and change the environment. Find ancient tech and fend off haywire zombitons. Craft Farm Breed Evolve!
Why similar: Science 29.1%, Crafting 15.9%, Sandbox 15.4%, Education 14.6%, Character Customization 7.3%
- #22 Lay of the Land
81% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,128 reviews2026
Dev: Southern Cross Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Lay of the Land is a sandbox adventure game set in a fantasy world where everything is physically simulated. Use the environment to your advantage and Explore, Fight, Loot and Build your way through mysterious lands.
Why similar: Sandbox 24.4%, Crafting 16.7%, Physics 14%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 9.8%
- #23 SpaceKraft!
82% matchVery Positive91% of 97 reviews2024
Dev: Game Dev Garage
Windows
Gather crystals, repair/run crafting facilities, upgrade your spaceship, build machines, explore the open world, find your way back to mother earth.
Why similar: Sandbox 35.3%, Physics 26.1%, Simulation 13.7%, Open World 13.6%, Sci-fi 6.9%
- #24 FortressCraft Evolved!
83% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,059 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: Crafting 29%, Sandbox 28.4%, Survival 17.8%, Open World 7.6%, Simulation 7.3%
- #25 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
81% matchVery Positive85% of 635 reviews2024
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
Why similar: Education 32.8%, Sandbox 27.3%, Crafting 25.8%, Simulation 7.1%, 2D 4.1%
- #26 Turing Complete
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,504 reviews2021
Dev: LevelHead
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Education 27.4%, Sandbox 25.1%, Logic 14%, Crafting 13.5%, Simulation 13%
- #27 PixPhys
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 216 reviews2021
Dev: Red Starship
Windows · Linux
PixPhys is a 2D engineering sandbox with huge technical possibilities and scope for imagination: design equipment from a jet-powered cart to space stations.
Why similar: Sandbox 36.7%, Physics 26%, Simulation 12.7%, Open World 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%
- #28 Planet Explorers
80% matchMixed62% of 6,818 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: Sandbox 31.6%, Crafting 20.3%, Survival 16.2%, Open World 12.8%, RPG 6.1%
- #29 ACTION SANDBOX
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,013 reviews2022
Dev: Vona Soft
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 64%
A physics sandbox game for people who like to play with digital toys. Create, control toys and define your goals.
Why similar: Sandbox 31.2%, Physics 22.1%, Character Customization 16.8%, Simulation 11.9%, Logic 6.3%
- #30 Plasma
77% matchVery Positive90% of 1,128 reviews2023
Dev: Dry CactusPub: Dry Licorice
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Sandbox 38.9%, Crafting 17%, Simulation 15.2%, Logic 10.6%, Physics 8.2%
- #31 FOUNDRY
76% matchVery Positive81% of 3,908 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 48.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Crafting 28.6%, Sandbox 26.5%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Open World 12.3%, Simulation 10.1%
- #32 Space Trash Scavenger
76% matchVery Positive84% of 523 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: Crafting 25.6%, Sandbox 21.5%, Survival 19%, Open World 9.9%, Procedural Generation 9.8%
- #33 Outerverse
78% matchMixed50% of 125 reviews2022
Dev: Tbjbu2Pub: indie.io
Windows
Build automated machines and weapons across the universe, beat massive bosses, experience cosmic events and explore unique landmarks in this quest driven automation crafting adventure game. Includes a manual scenario for crafting instead of machines for those not a fan of logic/automation!
Why similar: Crafting 38.6%, RPG 19.7%, Open World 16.1%, Logic 14.1%, Action 5.9%
- #34 The Last Caretaker
72% matchVery Positive86% of 12,716 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 36.1 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: Crafting 23.7%, Sandbox 21.5%, Survival 17.7%, Physics 13.8%, Open World 9.8%
- #35 Keplerth
74% matchVery Positive84% of 4,148 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
Why similar: Sandbox 27.6%, Survival 20.4%, Open World 11.4%, Crafting 10.9%, RPG 6.1%
- #36 Vagabond
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: Pierre Vigier
Windows · Linux
Explore procedurally generated living worlds in this 2D sandbox RPG. Meet hundreds of characters in cities, complete quests, craft powerful items, buy and furnish your home or fight monsters in dungeons.
Why similar: Sandbox 23.5%, Crafting 18.1%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Open World 10.4%, Survival 9.3%
- #37 Cubic Odyssey
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,711 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Sandbox 39.1%, RPG 14%, Crafting 12%, Sci-fi 9.8%, Survival 9%
- #38 Lantern Forge
77% matchMixed54% of 284 reviews2014
Dev: Hearthfire Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Lantern Forge is a sandbox survival game with building, crafting, and RPG elements. Mine and forage for resources to build a home, plant crops, and craft weapons and armor. Then venture out to explore the wilderness, find hidden dungeons and temples, fight unique monsters, and collect the treasures they guard.
Why similar: Sandbox 30.8%, Crafting 30.5%, Survival 23%, RPG 13%, Adventure 2.7%
- #39 ΔV: Rings of Saturn
72% matchVery Positive93% of 3,428 reviews2023
Dev: Kodera Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A physics-based mining sim, set in the thickest debris field in Sol. Every action has a reaction, lasers are invisible without a medium, and your thrust is a potent weapon. Find trade, adapt your equipment to your playstyle, hire a crew to help. Unravel the mysteries of the rings, or just get rich.
Why similar: Science 35.7%, Physics 15.9%, Sandbox 14.2%, Procedural Generation 8.6%, Open World 7.8%
- #40 Tile Miner
75% matchMixed62% of 63 reviews2021
Dev: nalothchrisPub: MadSwan
Windows · Mac
Explore a vast world. Manipulate every tile. Build your kingdom. Conquer the elemental dungeons. The moldable world of Tile Miner is at your fingertips!
Why similar: Sandbox 25.1%, Crafting 23%, Survival 17.5%, Open World 10.8%, Procedural Generation 9.6%
- #41 Black Skylands
71% matchVery Positive84% of 4,470 reviews2023
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Become the captain of an airship and explore the world of the skies, gather resources and build powerful weapons, uncover ancient secrets and fight beneath your ship's sails.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.2%, Crafting 14.8%, Survival 13.5%, Character Customization 11%, Open World 9.8%
- #42 Eden Crafters
70% matchVery Positive85% of 2,598 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 13.9 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: Crafting 32.4%, Sandbox 28.5%, Survival 20%, Open World 12.6%, Sci-fi 4.5%
- #43 Miniland Adventure
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 332 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 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: Sandbox 33.8%, Crafting 26.7%, Survival 24.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%, 2D 5.7%
- #44 Archean
71% matchVery Positive89% of 245 reviews2024
Dev: batcholi
Windows · Linux
Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.
Why similar: Science 33.6%, Sandbox 17.8%, Crafting 17.6%, Physics 11.6%, Open World 7.6%
- #45 Forsaken Isle
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 518 reviews2025
Dev: Smoodlez
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
Why similar: Crafting 28.6%, Survival 27.1%, Sandbox 22.1%, RPG 7.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%
- #46 Windforge
74% matchMixed68% of 620 reviews2014
Dev: Snowed In Studios
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 43%
WindForge is a side-scrolling block-building game where you explore hostile skies in an ever-changing Steampunk world. Everything you see can be created or destroyed, creating an RPG without barriers that rewards creative problem solving and improvisation.
Why similar: Sandbox 32.1%, Crafting 26.8%, RPG 12.1%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 8.9%
- #47 RealmCraft
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 52 reviews2018
Dev: Tellurion Mobile
Windows
RealmCraft is the original Sandbox Game. Build Cubes & Explore 30+ Blueprint Worlds in 3D. Try to Survive & Use 100+ Types of Blocks to Build Your Unique Town.
Why similar: Sandbox 31.9%, Crafting 24.7%, Survival 17.7%, Simulation 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%
- #48 ASTRONEER
69% matchVery Positive92% of 138,853 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.4 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: Survival 26.9%, Sandbox 25.2%, Crafting 21.7%, Open World 15.6%, Simulation 4.6%
- #49 Alchemy Factory
67% matchVery Positive90% of 2,470 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 23.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!
Why similar: Sandbox 43.1%, Crafting 39.4%, Simulation 12.7%, Logic 3.1%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #50 The Powder Toy
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,861 reviews2024
Dev: The Powder Toy Team
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Powder Toy is a classic physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances
Why similar: Science 27.6%, Sandbox 27.5%, Physics 12.6%, Education 12%, Simulation 11.6%
- #51 Necesse
65% matchVery Positive93% of 28,145 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Sandbox 25.5%, Crafting 24.1%, Survival 19%, Open World 11.8%, RPG 6.8%
- #52 Deep Despair
71% matchMixed67% of 284 reviews2020
Dev: BekkerDev Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Deep Despair is a Minecraft-style survival sandbox. Travel, collect resources, craft items, dig, build, grow crops and survive. Freedom of action is limited only by your imagination!
Why similar: Crafting 21.7%, Sandbox 18.6%, Survival 17.5%, RPG 11.4%, Open World 8.7%
- #53 Dig or Die
68% matchVery Positive90% of 4,282 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Sandbox 26.5%, Crafting 24.4%, Survival 22.5%, Physics 7.6%, Open World 7.5%
- #54 CHR$(143)
69% matchVery Positive96% of 81 reviews2021
Dev: Nicolas Jean
Windows · Linux
A rich and challenging physics-based puzzle /logic /construction /programming game! Master ballistics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, chemical and nuclear reactions, use automation bricks, build structures, machines, vehicles, produce power, solve puzzles, pierce the fog and defeat CHR$!
Why similar: Physics 35.9%, Crafting 25.4%, Logic 14.6%, Simulation 9%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%
- #55 Planet Centauri
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,382 reviews2024
Dev: Permadeath
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Dive into an epic adventure alone or with friends! Explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame fearsome monsters, build and defend your village. Craft powerful weapons, master magical spells, and transform an planet into the cradle of a new civilization!
Why similar: Sandbox 32.7%, Crafting 29.3%, Open World 13.2%, RPG 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%
- #56 Omega Crafter
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 573 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Crafting 30.3%, Survival 23.1%, Sandbox 20.7%, Open World 12.4%, RPG 8.6%
- #57 Nova Lands
66% matchVery Positive89% of 3,496 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.2 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: Sandbox 27.7%, Crafting 24.3%, Survival 18.9%, Open World 10.5%, Simulation 6.7%
- #58 Lumencraft
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,282 reviews2023
Dev: 2Dynamic GamesPub: Star Drifters
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Lumencraft is a unique combination of a top-down, rogue-like shooter and base building with tower defense elements. Dig and light up dark halls of a fully destructible environment on procedurally generated maps and campaign levels to find precious Lumen - humanity's only chance for survival.
Why similar: Sandbox 33.2%, Action RPG 29%, Survival 20.8%, RPG 8.5%, 2D 5%
- #59 Rogue Harvest
70% matchMixed57% of 69 reviews2018
Dev: Genetix Studio
Windows
Rogue Harvest is a finely crafted Rogue-like Open World Adventure - Dig, Mine, Build, Craft, Explore, and Survive in a massive Procedurally Generated World and work to unravel the mystery of how you ended up in this dream like place.
Why similar: Crafting 22.6%, Sandbox 19.2%, Survival 15.5%, Action RPG 14.7%, Procedural Generation 10.9%
- #60 Caves of Qud
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 12,498 reviews2024
Dev: Freehold GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 35.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 21.6%, Survival 19.5%, Open World 18.6%, Character Customization 17.6%, RPG 8.6%