- #1 Crashlands
97% matchVery Positive90% of 6,633 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 18.3%, Open World 17.1%, Sandbox 15.1%, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down, open-world survival game that emphasizes exploration, combat, and extensive crafting in a colorful alien world.
- #2 Nova Lands
96% matchVery Positive89% of 3,351 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.4 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 23.5%, Sandbox 17.4%, Open World 14.9%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines exploration, base-building, and automation with a charming top-down perspective similar to the resource gathering in Black Skylands.
- #3 Volcanoids
96% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 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 26.8% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Open World 13.4%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on a mobile base (a drill ship) that you must upgrade and defend, mirroring the airship management of the seed game.
- #4 Voidtrain
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,176 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.8 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 21.3%, Open World 16.7%, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 13.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features a mobile base that you expand and customize while exploring a surreal, atmospheric world.
- #5 Aground
95% matchVery Positive94% of 1,965 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 26.2%, Open World 21.5%, Sandbox 16.9%, Survival 16.4%, Pixel Graphics 11%
Why You'll Like It: Features similar pixel-art progression, crafting, and base-building mechanics that evolve from primitive to advanced technology.
- #6 Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition
94% matchVery Positive84% of 3,416 reviews2019
Dev: Failbetter Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 17.4 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 62.6% ★, Survival 12.6%, RPG 9.5%, Atmospheric 7.3%, Indie 3%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the atmospheric, gothic-steampunk airship exploration and RPG elements found in the skies of Black Skylands.
- #7 Merchant of the Skies
93% matchVery Positive86% of 2,255 reviews2020
Dev: Coldwild Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.3 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 31.3% ★, Base Building 25.8%, Sandbox 17.6%, Procedural Generation 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the trading and airship management aspects of the seed game in a more relaxed, management-oriented setting.
- #8 Breathedge
91% matchVery Positive82% of 16,026 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 21%, Sandbox 17.3%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 11%, Crafting 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game set in space that emphasizes scavenging, crafting, and managing your mobile life-support systems.
- #9 DYSMANTLE
91% matchVery Positive91% of 11,317 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 25.4 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 19.4%, Base Building 18.9%, Survival 15.8%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 11%
Why You'll Like It: Features a top-down open world where you must scavenge, craft, and build to survive in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #10 Diluvion: Resubmerged
92% matchMixed62% of 1,124 reviews2017
Dev: Arachnid GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Diluvion is a 3D deep sea, Jules Verne inspired, exploration game with RPG elements and thrilling submarine combat. As the Captain of your own vessel, you must grow and manage your crew as you search for the secrets of the past in a hauntingly beautiful flooded world.
Why similar: Steampunk 54.6% ★, RPG 16.1%, Open World 7.9%, Action 7.5%, Indie 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar 'captain' experience, focusing on submarine exploration and combat in a dangerous, uncharted environment.
- #11 Core Keeper
89% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Base Building 16.8%, Open World 14.7%, Sandbox 13.7%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 11%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox survival game that excels at base-building, exploration, and progression through diverse biomes.
- #12 Above Snakes
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,929 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 18.3%, Base Building 17.5%, Sandbox 15.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game where you build your own world tile by tile, focusing on exploration and base development.
- #13 Windforge
90% matchMixed68% of 616 reviews2014
Dev: Snowed In Studios
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 10.9 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 36.6% ★, Sandbox 16.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 10.5%, RPG 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A steampunk-themed side-scrolling sandbox that heavily features airship construction and aerial combat.
- #14 Keplerth
88% matchVery Positive85% of 4,121 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.2 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 19.3%, Open World 18.3%, Survival 14.6%, Base Building 9.9%, Sci-fi 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox survival game with deep base-building and exploration mechanics that feel very similar to top-down RPGs.
- #15 Forager
87% matchVery Positive90% of 43,003 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.3 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 18.2%, Crafting 17.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Pixel Graphics 14.3%, Sandbox 13.8%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, top-down exploration and crafting game that focuses on expanding your territory and gathering resources.
- #16 Space Trash Scavenger
86% matchVery Positive84% of 514 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.2 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 14.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 14.3%, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines scavenging and base-building in a space setting, requiring you to manage your mobile platform while exploring.
- #17 Starbound
86% matchVery Positive90% of 122,901 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 64.1 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 25.1%, Open World 15.4%, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 13%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a massive sandbox experience with pixel-art visuals, ship exploration, and base-building across various planets.
- #18 Forever Skies
83% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 32.0 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 25%, Open World 19.5%, Survival 15.6%, Crafting 15.4%, Atmospheric 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game where you pilot a high-tech airship over a ruined Earth, focusing on base maintenance and exploration.
- #19 Star Valor
84% matchVery Positive89% of 3,325 reviews2022
Dev: Rafael Burgos
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 28.8 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 21.4%, Sandbox 20.4%, Open World 17.7%, Procedural Generation 11.9%, RPG 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A space-based sandbox RPG that focuses on ship customization, combat, and exploration in a vast galaxy.
- #20 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 38.2% ★, Sandbox 17.4%, Crafting 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Simulation 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building complex machines and vehicles to explore and survive in a sandbox environment.
- #21 Sparklite
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 653 reviews2019
Dev: Red Blue GamesPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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%, Procedural Generation 22.1%, RPG 18.8%, Indie 7.4%, Action 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down action-adventure game with pixel-art visuals that emphasizes exploration and combat against unique bosses.
- #22 Gaia
82% 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: Base Building 17.9%, Open World 12.2%, Sandbox 11.3%, Procedural Generation 11.2%, Survival 10%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that focuses on exploration and building in a procedurally generated open world.
- #23 Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 608 reviews2024
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 23.2% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 12.9%, Survival 11%, Procedural Generation 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that incorporates mobile base mechanics, requiring you to move your city to survive.
- #24 Scrapnaut
81% matchMostly Positive70% of 824 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: Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 16.2%, Survival 16.1%, Steampunk 15.3% ★, Open World 13.7%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that emphasizes base building, farming, and electricity management in a hostile world.
- #25 Everwind
77% matchVery Positive82% of 2,069 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 18.3%, Sandbox 17.8%, Survival 14.2%, Procedural Generation 14%, Crafting 11.9%
- #26 Desert Skies
80% matchMixed57% of 461 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: Base Building 23.8%, Survival 23.6%, Crafting 23.5%, Open World 10.4%, Action 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features a mobile airship base that you must build and upgrade to survive in a desert-themed survival setting.
- #27 XenoHaven
76% matchVery Positive86% of 64 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 19.6%, Open World 17.7%, Sandbox 16.4%, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 10.7%
- #28 Brinefall
78% matchMixed42% of 99 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 21.6%, Sandbox 17.5%, Open World 14.6%, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 13.6%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that focuses on base-building and hack-and-slash combat in a persistent world.
- #29 Lost Skies
75% matchMixed62% of 2,832 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.1 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 28.9%, Sandbox 18.5%, Open World 15%, Character Customization 12.4%, Crafting 10.6%
- #30 Shards of Azuria
79% 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 22.2%, Sandbox 21.6%, Survival 16.2%, RPG 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: An action-RPG with crafting and building elements that shares the top-down perspective and exploration focus.
- #31 Elsewhere
75% matchVery Positive95% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
Explore, dig for resources, and build factories in a vibrant open world with quests for both technological and magical progression. Inspired by classic old-school Minecraft modpacks and featuring many new and unique features.
Why similar: Sandbox 17.5%, Open World 16.9%, Steampunk 16.6% ★, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 12.4%
- #32 Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
77% matchMixed63% of 996 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%, Sandbox 18.5%, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 11.9%, Base Building 10.7%
- #33 Prospector
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 149 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 20.3%, Sandbox 15.8%, Open World 15.8%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 10.2%
- #34 iZolated
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 116 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 15.5%, Sandbox 14.6%, Open World 13.4%, Character Customization 11.5%, Procedural Generation 10.2%
- #35 Star Singularity
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 68 reviews2018
Dev: Star Bunny Enterprises
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 19.9%, Open World 19.2%, Crafting 13.7%, Procedural Generation 13.4%, RPG 10%
- #36 Airborne Kingdom
73% matchVery Positive87% of 2,333 reviews2022
Dev: The Wandering Band LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.9 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 38.3% ★, Base Building 28.5%, Sandbox 18%, Atmospheric 5.5%, Simulation 4.8%
- #37 Necesse
68% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 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 17.1%, Sandbox 16.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 11.9%
- #38 Airship: Kingdoms Adrift
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,027 reviews2023
Dev: Revolution IndustryPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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% ★, Sandbox 23.3%, Open World 15.6%, RPG 10.2%, Simulation 6.3%
- #39 Starsand
73% matchMixed66% of 1,227 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 21.4%, Open World 18.8%, Survival 15%, Sandbox 14.6%, Crafting 13.7%
- #40 Forsaken Isle
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 512 reviews2025
Dev: Smoodlez
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
Why similar: Survival 23.1%, Crafting 19%, Sandbox 18.3%, Pixel Graphics 16.8%, RPG 9%
- #41 Kenshi
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 110,425 reviews2018
Dev: Lo-Fi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Why similar: Open World 23.2%, Sandbox 19.2%, Survival 13.6%, Base Building 13.1%, RPG 7.8%
- #42 Echoes of Elysium
70% matchMixed64% of 502 reviews2026
Dev: Loric Games, Inc.Pub: Snail Games USA
Windows
Survive the skies in Echoes of Elysium, a co-op airship survival RPG. Build and customize your floating fortress, gather resources, and explore a vast procedural clockwork world with up to 6 friends. Battle land and skyborne threats while uncovering mysteries in a paradise on the brink.
Why similar: Sandbox 24.8%, Open World 24.5%, Crafting 21.6%, Survival 20.6%, Action 4.5%
- #43 Pixel Piracy
73% matchMixed65% of 7,360 reviews2014
Dev: Vitali Kirpu
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Embark on an epic 2D pirate simulator RPG adventure, where you navigate both land and sea. Upgrade your ship, recruit and level up your crew, and uncover hidden treasures as you become a legendary pirate.
Why similar: Sandbox 30.8%, Open World 20.2%, Procedural Generation 16.7%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%, RPG 8.7%
- #44 BLASTRONAUT
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 174 reviews2022
Dev: Perfoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
BLASTRONAUT is a mining game in a procedural alien world. Explore, extract and profit.
Why similar: Sandbox 17.4%, Base Building 16.2%, Open World 16%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 10.1%
- #45 Between the Stars
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,427 reviews2024
Dev: Isolated Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 49%
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 18.5%, RPG 16.3%, Simulation 14.4%, Open World 13.5%, Sci-fi 11.1%
- #46 Deep Despair
72% matchMixed67% of 280 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: Open World 15.7%, Sandbox 14.7%, Survival 14%, Crafting 13.2%, RPG 11.9%
- #47 Tinkerlands
67% matchVery Positive86% of 3,746 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Sandbox 21%, Open World 20.1%, Survival 16.3%, Crafting 13.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%
- #48 Pixelum
69% matchMixed49% 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 18.4%, RPG 14.9%, Survival 14.5%, Simulation 14.4%, Procedural Generation 10.4%
- #49 Cubic Odyssey
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,483 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Base Building 22%, Sandbox 17.1%, Open World 13.9%, Procedural Generation 10.4%, Sci-fi 8.1%
- #50 AETHUS
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,163 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
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: Base Building 22.2%, Open World 17%, Sandbox 16.7%, Crafting 14%, Survival 13.9%
- #51 Soulash 2
67% matchVery Positive86% of 2,323 reviews2023
Dev: Artur Smiarowski
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 16.2%, Open World 15.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Crafting 10.7%
- #52 Ocean Punk
68% matchMostly Positive80% of 166 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 22.1%, Sandbox 17.1%, Open World 15%, Survival 13.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%
- #53 Airborne Empire
66% matchVery Positive91% of 688 reviews2025
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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: Base Building 25.3%, Sandbox 21.9%, Open World 20.3%, Survival 10.7%, RPG 9.1%
- #54 The Last Caretaker
64% matchVery Positive85% of 9,793 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 30.9 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: Base Building 19.3%, Open World 15.6%, Sandbox 14.7%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 12.2%
- #55 Vagabond
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 98 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 17.9%, Sandbox 17.9%, Procedural Generation 14.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%
- #56 Crafting Block World
70% matchMixed46% of 52 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 18.4%, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Open World 11.8%, Procedural Generation 9.3%
- #57 Adventure Craft
69% matchVery Positive82% of 224 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: Base Building 19.4%, Open World 16%, Sandbox 15.6%, Survival 11.3%, Character Customization 11.1%