- #1 Merchant of the Skies
96% matchVery Positive86% of 2,287 reviews2020
Dev: Coldwild Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Become the captain of a flying ship! Sell items, gather resources and build your own trade company in the clouds!
Why similar: Steampunk 32.5% ★, Base Building 25.4%, Sandbox 17.4%, Procedural Generation 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the trading and exploration aspects of airship travel in a charming, management-heavy sandbox environment.
- #2 Windforge
96% matchMixed68% of 623 reviews2014
Dev: Snowed In Studios
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 11.2 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: Steampunk 37.5% ★, Sandbox 16.5%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 10.6%, RPG 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes building and customizing your own airship to survive and explore a dangerous, procedurally generated world.
- #3 Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition
95% matchVery Positive84% of 3,482 reviews2019
Dev: Failbetter Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN. Sunless Skies is a Gothic Horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling.
Why similar: Steampunk 63.5% ★, Survival 12.4%, RPG 9.4%, Atmospheric 7%, Indie 2.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game masterfully captures the atmospheric, narrative-driven exploration of a vast, dangerous sky world using an airship.
- #4 Crashlands
94% matchVery Positive90% of 6,773 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: Base Building 18%, Open World 17.6%, Sandbox 14.8%, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down, open-world survival game that shares the same satisfying loop of crafting, combat, and exploration found in Black Skylands.
- #5 Forever Skies
93% 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: Base Building 24.6%, Open World 20.2%, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 15.1%, Atmospheric 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This survival game centers on a high-tech airship that serves as your mobile base while you explore a ruined, toxic world.
- #6 Desert Skies
94% matchMixed57% of 472 reviews2019
Dev: White_Rabbit_Games
Windows
Desert Skies takes survival to the air! Build an airship and fly on an adventure through the deserts of the Wild West. Look for places to land and scavenge for loot, expand your airship and craft new equipment, but beware the dangers lurking beneath the sands!
Why similar: Survival 23.8%, Base Building 23.3%, Crafting 23.1%, Open World 10.8%, Action 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique survival experience where you build and upgrade a flying base to traverse a hostile, desert-themed sky.
- #7 Nova Lands
92% 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: Base Building 23.2%, Sandbox 17.2%, Open World 15.4%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: It combines top-down exploration with base-building and automation, offering a relaxing yet engaging sandbox experience.
- #8 Volcanoids
91% matchVery Positive83% of 9,358 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: Steampunk 29.3% ★, Base Building 15%, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 11.4%, Crafting 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: This steampunk-themed game features a mobile base that you must upgrade and defend, mirroring the ship-centric gameplay of the seed.
- #9 Airship: Kingdoms Adrift
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,068 reviews2023
Dev: Revolution IndustryPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Welcome to Suthseg! As the newly commissioned airship captain, forge a mercantile empire across the archipelago, until the great powers of Europa turn their attention toward it. Build up a fleet, chart trade routes, establish industries, and explore the frontier at your airship's helm!
Why similar: Steampunk 37.7% ★, Sandbox 22.5%, Open World 15.9%, RPG 10.2%, Simulation 6%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep focus on airship combat, fleet management, and real-time tactics within a sprawling open world.
- #10 DYSMANTLE
90% matchVery Positive91% of 11,622 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Open World 20.2%, Base Building 18.4%, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 13.6%, Sandbox 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival game excels at the satisfying destruction and resource gathering mechanics that drive progression.
- #11 Above Snakes
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,004 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Piece by piece, create your own world in this relaxing Wild West-inspired worldbuilder. Craft, farm, hunt, build your base, and explore.
Why similar: Open World 18.9%, Base Building 17.2%, Sandbox 15%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that allows you to build your own world piece by piece while managing resources in a top-down perspective.
- #12 Space Trash Scavenger
88% 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 15.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 14.1%, Survival 13%, Crafting 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the scavenging and survival aspects of space exploration, requiring you to maintain your base while gathering resources.
- #13 Sparklite
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 680 reviews2019
Dev: Red Blue GamesPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Sparklite is an action-adventure set in a whimsical & ever-changing land. Battle foes using an arsenal of gadgets, guns, & gear. Gear up for adventure in the dangerous corners of the procedurally generated world, take down titans of the mining industry, & harness the power of Sparklite!
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 29.1%, Procedural Generation 21.5%, RPG 19%, Action 7.4%, Indie 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This action-adventure game features a beautiful pixel-art style and top-down combat that feels very similar to the ground-based sections of Black Skylands.
- #14 Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
87% matchMostly Positive73% of 624 reviews2024
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.
Why similar: Steampunk 23.9% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 12.7%, Survival 11.1%, Procedural Generation 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This title blends city-building with survival, requiring you to move your base to escape danger, much like managing a mobile airship.
- #15 Starbound
86% matchVery Positive90% of 123,321 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Sandbox 24.6%, Open World 15.9%, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A massive pixel-art sandbox that allows for deep exploration, base building, and combat across diverse planetary environments.
- #16 Forager
86% matchVery Positive89% of 44,137 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Survival 18.3%, Crafting 17.3%, Base Building 14.9%, Pixel Graphics 14.4%, Sandbox 13.6%
Why You'll Like It: This addictive top-down game focuses on rapid expansion, resource gathering, and crafting within a compact, rewarding sandbox.
- #17 Keplerth
85% matchVery Positive84% of 4,170 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 16.3 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 19.8%, Open World 19.6%, Survival 15.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Sci-fi 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down, open-world survival game that emphasizes sandbox freedom, base building, and combat against alien threats.
- #18 Atomcraft
82% matchVery Positive95% of 434 reviews2026
Dev: Triplejump
Windows
A sandbox adventure where every pixel is physically and chemically simulated! Build intricate, fully functional machines from the pixels around you. Harvest, react, and manipulate all 118 elements to craft everything from simple tools to complex systems.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.2%, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 13.6%, Character Customization 10.8%, Open World 10%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox simulation game focuses on crafting and survival in a world that requires careful management of resources.
- #19 Mechanic Miner
84% 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: Steampunk 39.2% ★, Sandbox 17%, Crafting 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Simulation 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on building complex machines and vehicles to survive and explore, appealing to the engineering side of Black Skylands.
- #20 Sandustry
79% 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: Base Building 18%, Open World 16.1%, Sandbox 15.8%, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game centered on automation and building, perfect for players who enjoy the logistical side of base management.
- #21 Scrapnaut
83% matchMixed70% of 839 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Survival 16.1%, Base Building 16%, Sandbox 15.9%, Steampunk 15.7% ★, Open World 14.2%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes building and crafting in a top-down perspective with a focus on co-op play.
- #22 Voidtrain
80% matchMostly Positive73% of 9,990 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Base Building 21.2%, Open World 17.3%, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 13.1%, Sandbox 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique mobile base (a train) that you must expand and defend while traversing a surreal, interdimensional landscape.
- #23 Aground
81% matchVery Positive94% of 2,039 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Why similar: Base Building 25.6%, Open World 22.1%, Sandbox 16.6%, Survival 16.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A progression-heavy crafting game that starts simple and expands into complex technology and exploration.
- #24 Shards of Azuria
82% 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 21.8%, Sandbox 21.2%, Survival 16.3%, RPG 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: An action-RPG that combines crafting and exploration with a classic top-down adventure feel.
- #25 Terraria
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,558,339 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.9 hrsMean: 152.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Sandbox 27%, Survival 17.5%, Crafting 14.5%, Open World 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive sandbox experience for players who enjoy deep exploration, boss fights, and extensive base building.
- #26 Brinefall
81% matchMixed42% of 100 reviews2023
Dev: Qwerty StudioPub: Gamera Interactive
Windows
Embark on an epic journey in Brinefall, where you'll gather resources and construct your own village while exploring a vast open-world filled with secrets and mysteries. Battle fierce enemies and collect valuable loot in this unique blend of sandbox and RPG gameplay.
Why similar: Base Building 21.2%, Sandbox 17.2%, Open World 15.1%, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 13.4%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox survival game features base building and hack-and-slash combat in a procedurally generated world.
- #27 Everwind
77% matchVery Positive81% of 3,899 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Open World 19.7%, Sandbox 17.3%, Survival 14.7%, Crafting 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%
- #28 Don't Starve
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 113,517 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Why similar: Survival 36%, Sandbox 19.8%, Crafting 18.6%, Open World 13.3%, Indie 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: A highly atmospheric top-down survival game that challenges players to manage resources and build a base in a hostile environment.
- #29 Lay of the Land
74% matchVery Positive80% of 1,234 reviews2026
Dev: Southern Cross Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 19.1%, Open World 18.4%, Base Building 13.1%, Procedural Generation 12.6%, Crafting 10.3%
- #30 Lost Skies
75% matchMixed61% of 2,995 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Base Building 28.4%, Sandbox 18.4%, Open World 15.7%, Character Customization 12.1%, Crafting 10.4%
- #31 XenoHaven
75% 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: Base Building 19.3%, Open World 18.3%, Sandbox 16.2%, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 10.6%
- #32 Gaia
78% matchMixed58% 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: Base Building 17.7%, Open World 12.6%, Sandbox 11.2%, Procedural Generation 10.9%, Survival 10.2%
- #33 Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
76% matchMixed62% of 1,001 reviews2021
Dev: Soaring Pixels Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Survive in a world ravaged by massive Titans and an ever changing ocean sim. Displace water to find resources for building and crafting unique items. Swim, sail, and fly to explore new islands and fight Titans.
Why similar: Open World 19.7%, Sandbox 18.3%, Survival 15.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Base Building 10.5%
- #34 Star Valor
74% matchVery Positive88% of 3,520 reviews2022
Dev: Rafael Burgos
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 29.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Choose your own destiny as you explore an open-world procedurally generated galaxy where anything is possible. Become a miner, a trader, a bounty hunter, a pirate, or perhaps a jack of all trades. Start off small and build your way to the top but remember with every action, comes consequences.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 22%, Sandbox 18.4%, Open World 17.6%, Procedural Generation 12.5%, Crafting 8.8%
- #35 Breathedge
73% 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: Base Building 20.4%, Sandbox 17.2%, Survival 15%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 10.5%
- #36 Star Singularity
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 69 reviews2018
Dev: Star Bunny Enterprises
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
A space action-adventure unlike any other: navigate your spacecraft through a galactic-scale mystery. Make sure to loot, craft and upgrade your space fleet. Play the story campaign or test your skills in vicious arena modes against AI opponents.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 20.1%, Open World 19.7%, Crafting 13.4%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, RPG 10.1%
- #37 Clockwork Ambrosia
72% matchVery Positive86% of 149 reviews2026
Dev: RealmsoftPub: OI Games
Windows
Design your own arsenal in Clockwork Ambrosia, a steampunk metroidvania in the vein of a run-and-gun platformer. Join Iris, an airship pilot who must combat an army of deadly robots and monsters, and experiment with over 100 rule-based weapon mods and armors to prevail through this wild adventure!
Why similar: Steampunk 64.3% ★, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, Atmospheric 12.3%, Female Protagonist 6.8%, Action 4.1%
- #38 Between the Stars
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,502 reviews2024
Dev: Isolated Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Become the Captain of an interstellar cruiser and journey across the galaxy to save the Republic. During your journey you will have to make important decisions, improve the weaponry of your ship and fight against numerous enemies.
Why similar: Sandbox 18%, RPG 16.5%, Open World 14.2%, Simulation 13.6%, Sci-fi 11.1%
- #39 Prospector
72% 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: Base Building 19.9%, Open World 16.3%, Sandbox 15.6%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 10.3%
- #40 iZolated
73% matchMixed69% of 124 reviews2024
Dev: Crooked RoadPub: LT-Games
Windows
iZolated - This is a post-apocalyptic 2D action game with elements of survival and RPG, which throws you into a harsh open world where the slightest mistake costs you your life. Find equipment, engage in fights, and prove that you are the top of the food chain in this chaos!
Why similar: Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 14.4%, Open World 13.9%, Character Customization 11.3%, Procedural Generation 10%
- #41 Echoes of Elysium
70% matchMixed64% of 566 reviews2026
Dev: Loric Games, Inc.Pub: Snail Games USA
Windows
Ever wanted to live on an airship? Now you have to. Echoes of Elysium is a co-op survival RPG where your airship is home, workshop, and war machine. Build a custom flying fortress, crew up with up to 6 players, and battle soul-powered clockwork beasts across a gorgeous, fractured sky.
Why similar: Open World 25.2%, Sandbox 24.2%, Crafting 21.2%, Survival 20.7%, Action 4.7%
- #42 Starcom: Nexus
71% matchVery Positive90% of 2,322 reviews2019
Dev: Wx3 Labs, LLC
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Suddenly thrown into an unknown galaxy, you must explore, fight or befriend aliens and transform your ship from a small survey vessel into a powerful battlecruiser to unravel the mystery of the forces that brought you here and find your way home.
Why similar: Open World 29%, Sci-fi 19.6%, RPG 17.2%, Beautiful 15.4% ★, Action 6.4%
- #43 BLASTRONAUT
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 175 reviews2022
Dev: Perfoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
BLASTRONAUT is a mining game in a procedural alien world. Explore, extract and profit.
Why similar: Sandbox 17.2%, Open World 16.6%, Base Building 15.9%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 9.9%
- #44 Airborne Empire
67% matchVery Positive87% of 948 reviews2026
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!
Why similar: Open World 30.7%, Sandbox 25.3%, Base Building 24.4%, RPG 12.9%, Adventure 4.2%
- #45 Necesse
66% 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 17.5%, Sandbox 16%, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 11.6%
- #46 Windbound
71% matchMixed59% of 1,183 reviews2020
Dev: 5 Lives StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 62%
The Forbidden Islands are Calling, Unlock their Secrets. Shipwrecked on an island, explore, adapt and navigate the land and perilous seas to stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 24.7%, RPG 22.9%, Crafting 18.9%, Open World 9.5%, Adventure 9.3%
- #47 Pixelum
69% matchMixed49% of 74 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 18.2%, RPG 15.2%, Survival 14.7%, Simulation 13.9%, Procedural Generation 10.2%
- #48 Ocean Punk
69% matchVery Positive80% of 170 reviews2024
Dev: Infinite Studio
Windows
Explore a fantasy ocean-punk world, braving the deep with steam-powered marvels. Discover mysterious underwater treasures, but scarcity and ecological crises test survival. Rise, build, confront foes in this pixel-art ocean survival journey!
Why similar: Base Building 21.7%, Sandbox 16.9%, Open World 15.6%, Survival 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%
- #49 Airborne Kingdom
68% matchVery Positive87% of 2,406 reviews2022
Dev: The Wandering Band LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.
Why similar: Steampunk 39.5% ★, Base Building 27.9%, Sandbox 17.7%, Atmospheric 5.4%, Simulation 4.6%
- #50 Starsand
69% 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: Base Building 21%, Open World 19.4%, Survival 15.1%, Sandbox 14.4%, Crafting 13.5%
- #51 Deep Despair
70% matchMixed67% of 284 reviews2020
Dev: BekkerDev Studio
Windows
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Open World 15.9%, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 14.2%, Crafting 13.4%, RPG 11.8%
- #52 Minishoot' Adventures
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 8,314 reviews2024
Dev: SoulGame Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fly into a charming handcrafted world and go on an adventure that mixes up open exploration with crispy twin-stick shooter action. Fight your way from the shiny overworld to the deepest caves, improve your ship and overcome the dungeons' bosses to rescue your friends!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 43.8%, Open World 28.9%, RPG 16.4%, Adventure 6.1%, Action 4.7%
- #53 HighFleet
67% matchVery Positive88% of 7,447 reviews2021
Dev: Konstantin KoshutinPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Battle for survival in the skies of a mysterious future Earth in this unique action-strategy game mixing arcade combat, exploration, management and diplomacy. As giant flying ships wage spectacular aerial warfare, a prophecy tells of one who will save the world – could it be you?
Why similar: Sci-fi 28.6%, Simulation 25.8%, Indie 13.4%, Action 11.8%, Singleplayer 11.3%
- #54 Soulash 2
66% matchVery Positive85% of 2,438 reviews2023
Dev: Artur Smiarowski
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Soulash 2 is a sandbox RPG roguelike with a procedurally generated open world, simulated history, skill-based progression system, customizable abilities, material-based crafting, building, trading, and the possibility of total mayhem. Will you save your world or destroy it?
Why similar: Sandbox 16.1%, Open World 15.9%, Base Building 14.2%, Procedural Generation 12.8%, Crafting 10.5%
- #55 Space Haven
63% matchVery Positive86% of 11,153 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Base Building 22.5%, Sandbox 16.2%, Open World 15.2%, Survival 13.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%
- #56 Vagabond
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 100 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: Open World 18.5%, Sandbox 17.6%, Procedural Generation 13.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Crafting 10.5%
- #57 Crafting Block World
70% matchMixed47% of 55 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 18.2%, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 13.1%, Open World 12.2%, Procedural Generation 9.2%