- #1 The Planet Crafter
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 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 38.2% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 11.3%, Co-op 11.2%, Crafting 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Like Beyond Contact, it emphasizes terraforming and survival on a desolate alien planet with a strong focus on progression.
- #2 Abiotic Factor
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 58,426 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 20.8 hrsMean: 46.1 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 33.3% ★, Co-op Campaign 17.6% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the same high-stakes sci-fi survival and base-building loop within a hostile, research-focused environment.
- #3 ICARUS
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 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 39.9% ★, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 10.4%, Co-op 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the session-based, high-pressure survival experience on a hostile alien world that demands constant adaptation.
- #4 Forever Skies
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 8,950 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.6 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 33.6% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Co-op 12.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique sci-fi survival premise centered on exploration and base-building in a ruined, dangerous world.
- #5 Subnautica
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 378,847 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.8 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 48.2% ★, Survival 15%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.9%, Multiplayer 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive experience for exploring a beautiful yet lethal alien world while managing limited resources and crafting gear.
- #6 Grounded
94% matchVery Positive90% of 95,505 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 41.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Survival 16.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Co-op 12.2%, Crafting 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It excels at the survival-crafting loop in a dangerous, oversized environment that forces players to build secure bases to survive.
- #7 Don't Starve Together
93% matchVery Positive95% of 541,972 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 64.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 66.2% ★, Survival 20.9%, Co-op 4.5%, Multiplayer 3.4%, Crafting 2.6%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the top-down perspective and punishing survival mechanics against a bizarre, hostile environment.
- #8 ASTRONEER
92% matchVery Positive92% of 139,015 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.6 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 38% ★, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Co-op 9.2%, Space 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar sci-fi aesthetic with a heavy emphasis on exploration, base-building, and resource management on alien planets.
- #9 Breathedge
91% matchVery Positive81% of 17,661 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 43.7% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 11.7%, Space 9%, Crafting 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers a humorous but challenging sci-fi survival experience focused on space exploration and crafting.
- #10 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
90% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,392 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 77.1 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 39.2% ★, Co-op 14.2%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 10.4%, Space 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: This title provides a deep sci-fi survival experience with extensive base-building and planetary exploration mechanics.
- #11 TerraTech Worlds
89% matchMixed63% of 2,287 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 22.0 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 35.8% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Co-op 11.1%, Survival 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the creative side of sci-fi survival, allowing you to build complex vehicles and bases to conquer alien landscapes.
- #12 RimWorld
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 245,287 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.6 hrsMean: 266.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Base Building 44.4%, Survival 32.1%, Sci-fi 13.4%, Simulation 6.6%, Indie 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its top-down perspective and focus on managing survivors against a hostile, sci-fi backdrop align perfectly with the core themes of Beyond Contact.
- #13 Space Trash Scavenger
87% matchVery Positive84% of 525 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 43.5% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 10.8%, Space 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It combines sci-fi survival with base-building and crafting in a unique, hostile space environment.
- #14 Volcanoids
88% matchVery Positive83% of 9,332 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 22.4%, Crafting 19.6%, Co-op 18.6%, Survival 17.5%, Multiplayer 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a distinct sci-fi survival experience where you must constantly move and upgrade your mobile base to survive environmental threats.
- #15 Dig or Die
86% matchVery Positive90% of 4,284 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: Open World Survival Craft 48.5% ★, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 13.2%, Base Building 7.8%, Co-op 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: It features a similar top-down perspective where you must defend your base against waves of hostile alien creatures every night.
- #16 No Man's Sky
85% matchVery Positive85% of 414,381 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.7 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 51.3% ★, Space 11.3%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 7.1%, Sci-fi 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides an expansive universe to explore, with survival and base-building mechanics that are central to the gameplay loop.
- #17 Outpost Zero
86% matchMixed48% of 853 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Survival 14.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Crafting 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It blends base-building and survival with a sci-fi aesthetic, tasking players with establishing a foothold on a dangerous planet.
- #18 Craterbound
84% matchMixed53% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Marquez
Windows
Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Space 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a focused survival experience on a hostile planet with an emphasis on exploration and resource gathering.
- #19 Necesse
79% matchVery Positive93% of 28,807 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.3 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: Open World Survival Craft 51.1% ★, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 9.4%, Base Building 8.8%, Co-op 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival game features base-building and combat against challenging enemies in a procedurally generated world.
- #20 Valheim
80% matchVery Positive94% of 540,690 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.0 hrsMean: 78.0 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 42.4% ★, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 9.8%, Co-op 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: While fantasy-themed, it perfectly captures the brutal survival and base-building progression loop found in Beyond Contact.
- #21 Life Not Supported
82% matchMixed67% of 173 reviews2023
Dev: YETIBYTES
Windows · Linux
You are the lone survivor orbiting a potential new home planet, tethered to what’s left of your ship. Gather nearby debris and assemble a make-shift vessel in an attempt to survive the harsh realities of space. Maybe you'll live long enough to uncover the truth behind the ship's malfunction...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 11.9%, Space 8%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the desperate survival of a lone astronaut, mirroring the isolation found in Beyond Contact.
- #22 Stationeers
81% matchVery Positive88% of 9,229 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 85.3 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: Base Building 21.2%, Crafting 17.1%, Survival 16.9%, Co-op 15.7%, Space 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: This is a more hardcore approach to sci-fi survival, focusing on the complex atmospheric and engineering systems required to stay alive.
- #23 Fragmented
83% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.2% ★, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 8.4%, Multiplayer 7%, Co-op 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: It features a sci-fi setting where players must survive, craft, and build in a hostile, alien-infested world.
- #24 Satisfactory
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 278,339 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 112.6 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: Base Building 24.5%, Open World Survival Craft 23% ★, Crafting 15.5%, Co-op 13.9%, Multiplayer 9%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the industrial and base-building aspects of sci-fi survival, challenging you to tame an alien planet through automation.
- #25 GRAV
82% 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 43.9% ★, Survival 13.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 8.2%, Co-op 6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a sandbox survival experience on alien planets with a focus on building and combat.
- #26 Subsistence
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,766 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.3% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 11.7%, Base Building 9%, Multiplayer 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is a challenging survival game that focuses on base-building and defending against both environmental and AI threats.
- #27 StarRupture
77% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 35% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Co-op 11.2%, Survival 11%, Crafting 10.5%
- #28 Eden Crafters
77% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 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 38.7% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 9.3%, Co-op 8.7%
- #29 Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
78% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,353 reviews2021
Dev: A.Y.stdPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.8% ★, Base Building 18.5%, Crafting 16.9%, Survival 16.5%, Character Customization 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a top-down survival experience with a heavy focus on crafting, exploration, and managing a base in a dangerous land.
- #30 Out of Reach
79% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.6% ★, Survival 14.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Base Building 7.1%, Multiplayer 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a survival-crafting experience that emphasizes building and defending your territory in a dangerous environment.
- #31 Astrometica
75% matchVery Positive83% of 3,181 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 27.3% ★, Survival 17%, Crafting 15.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Space 9.8%
- #32 Stars End
76% matchMixed61% of 1,428 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Co-op 14.7%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 9.3%, Multiplayer 7.9%
- #33 Outerstellar
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 175 reviews2023
Dev: Strange Horizons Ltd
Windows
Stranded on a hostile and deadly planet, you must gather resources, build shelter, and fight to survive each night. But the secrets of this world await in a gripping sci-fi survival PvP game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Multiplayer 7.7%
- #34 Cubic Odyssey
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,720 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 8.9 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: Open World Survival Craft 47.4% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Co-op 14.4%, Sci-fi 7.3%, Crafting 4.1%
- #35 Occupy Mars: The Game
73% matchMixed70% of 3,132 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: Open World Survival Craft 40.5% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 12.3%, Co-op 10.9%
- #36 Rem Survival
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 803 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 12.4%, Co-op 6.3%
- #37 Farworld Pioneers
75% matchMostly Negative38% of 701 reviews2023
Dev: IgloosoftPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Co-op 13.1%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9%
- #38 Crashlands
73% matchVery Positive90% of 6,745 reviews2016
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.8% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 12.3%, Sci-fi 5.3%
- #39 Planetaries
72% matchMixed58% of 226 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Co-op 10.4%
- #40 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
69% matchVery Positive91% of 7,602 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 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 39.7% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.8%
- #41 KeepUp Survival
71% matchMixed64% of 749 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 12.5%, Co-op 12.4%, Crafting 11.7%
- #42 Hostile Planet: Survival
72% matchMixed65% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Aliens Developers
Windows
Hostile Planet: Survival is a harsh adventure on an uncharted planet that full of danger and trials.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.4% ★, Survival 20.5%, Crafting 18%, Adventure 5.5%, Action 3.6%
- #43 Under A New Sun
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 400 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.3% ★, Survival 14.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 13.3%, Adventure 3.1%
- #44 Stranded: Alien Dawn
68% matchVery Positive84% of 11,322 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Base Building 32.1%, Survival 26%, Crafting 17.8%, Combat 8.4%, Simulation 5.5%
- #45 Heat Death: Survival Train
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 718 reviews2024
Dev: Mass Game DevsPub: LightOnDevs
Windows
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.3% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 15.3%, Survival 14.2%, Adventure 3.6%
- #46 Remains
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 321 reviews2021
Dev: SoloQ
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.2% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 11.5%, Space 8.1%
- #47 Lost Skies
67% matchMixed61% of 2,976 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.1% ★, Base Building 18.2%, Crafting 8.9%, Character Customization 5.9%, Adventure 5.4%
- #48 Vortex: The Gateway
71% matchMixed57% of 398 reviews2016
Dev: StormCube Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Vortex: The Gateway is an open world survival horror game with two game modes. If you want to survive then be alert, sneak, build and fight. Meanwhile life back on Earth changes dramatically. What changes? You will get bits of information through your adventure. Prepare for the worst!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 61.7% ★, Survival 18.1%, Crafting 11.6%, Adventure 4%, Action 2.5%
- #49 Gaia
71% matchMixed59% of 93 reviews2020
Dev: Eternal Stardust Studios
Windows
A sci-fi base building survival game, featuring raids, agriculture, intelligent AI, natural disasters and more.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.2% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Survival 12.2%, Female Protagonist 6.4%, Sci-fi 5.7%
- #50 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
67% matchVery Positive82% of 10,429 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Co-op 10.2%
- #51 Nightingale
67% matchMixed66% of 18,038 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.9% ★, Survival 12.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Co-op 10.6%
- #52 Whisper of the Swallows
66% matchVery Positive86% of 191 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Difficult 5.8%
- #53 CrossWorlds: Escape
69% matchMixed64% of 158 reviews2020
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
CrossWorlds: Escape is a hardcore game in which you will have to deploy all your skills to survive in a huge open world that is susceptible to changes in weather, seasons and various natural phenomena.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.6% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 11.7%, Difficult 7.7%
- #54 Saleblazers
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,228 reviews2023
Dev: AIRSTRAFE INTERACTIVE
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
You’re a humble shopkeeper trying to live a peaceful new life, finding yourself surrounded by warring factions and dangerous creatures. Will you be able to carve out a new home for yourself and your customers in this open-world survival shopkeeping simulator?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Co-op Campaign 20.3% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 10.1%
- #55 AETHUS
63% matchVery Positive95% of 2,015 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.6 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 33.1% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 12.8%, Space 7.6%
- #56 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,709 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 42.1% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 12%, Multiplayer 8.3%
- #57 Signs of Life
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 841 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.5% ★, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Space 6.1%, Sci-fi 4.4%
