Games Like Black Skylands

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 18.2%, Open World 17.3%, Sandbox 15%, Survival 13.3%, 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.

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 23.3%, Sandbox 17.3%, Open World 15.1%, 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.

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 28.9% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 10%

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.

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 25.9%, Open World 21.7%, Sandbox 16.8%, Survival 16.5%, 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.

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 21.4%, Open World 17%, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a mobile base that you expand and customize while exploring a surreal, atmospheric world.

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% ★, Survival 12.5%, RPG 9.4%, Atmospheric 7.2%, Indie 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the atmospheric, gothic-steampunk airship exploration and RPG elements found in the skies of Black Skylands.

Become the captain of a flying ship! Sell items, gather resources and build your own trade company in the clouds!

Why similar: Steampunk 31.9% ★, Base Building 25.6%, Sandbox 17.5%, 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.

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 19.7%, Base Building 18.7%, Survival 15.9%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 10.9%

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.

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 16.6%, Open World 15.2%, Sandbox 13.6%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox survival game that excels at base-building, exploration, and progression through diverse biomes.

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 37.2% ★, Sandbox 16.7%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 10.8%, RPG 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A steampunk-themed side-scrolling sandbox that heavily features airship construction and aerial combat.

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 54.4% ★, RPG 15.7%, Open World 8.6%, Action 7.5%, Indie 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar 'captain' experience, focusing on submarine exploration and combat in a dangerous, uncharted environment.

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 19.2%, Open World 18.5%, Survival 14.7%, Base Building 9.8%, Sci-fi 7.9%

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.

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 20.8%, Sandbox 17.2%, Survival 14.8%, Open World 11.1%, 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.

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 17.5%, Base Building 15%, Pixel Graphics 14.3%, Sandbox 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, top-down exploration and crafting game that focuses on expanding your territory and gathering resources.

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 24.9%, Open World 15.6%, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 13%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a massive sandbox experience with pixel-art visuals, ship exploration, and base-building across various planets.

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 15.1%, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 14.2%, Crafting 13%, Survival 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines scavenging and base-building in a space setting, requiring you to manage your mobile platform while exploring.

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 18.5%, Base Building 17.4%, Sandbox 15.1%, Crafting 12%, Survival 10.9%

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.

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 24.9%, Open World 19.7%, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 15.3%, Atmospheric 7.7%

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.

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 21.9%, Sandbox 18.3%, Open World 17.3%, Procedural Generation 12.7%, Crafting 9%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based sandbox RPG that focuses on ship customization, combat, and exploration in a vast galaxy.

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 28.9%, Procedural Generation 22%, RPG 18.8%, Indie 7.3%, Action 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down action-adventure game with pixel-art visuals that emphasizes exploration and combat against unique bosses.

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 38.7% ★, Sandbox 17.3%, Crafting 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Simulation 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building complex machines and vehicles to explore and survive in a sandbox environment.

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 16.2%, Survival 16%, Sandbox 16%, Steampunk 15.5% ★, Open World 13.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that emphasizes base building, farming, and electricity management in a hostile world.

A sci-fi base building survival game, featuring raids, agriculture, intelligent AI, natural disasters and more.

Why similar: Base Building 17.8%, Open World 12.3%, Sandbox 11.3%, Procedural Generation 11.1%, Survival 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that focuses on exploration and building in a procedurally generated open world.

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 19.3%, Sandbox 17.5%, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%

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 23.6% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 12.8%, Survival 11%, Procedural Generation 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that incorporates mobile base mechanics, requiring you to move your city to survive.

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 23.7%, Base Building 23.6%, Crafting 23.4%, Open World 10.5%, Action 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features a mobile airship base that you must build and upgrade to survive in a desert-themed survival setting.

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 22.1%, Sandbox 21.5%, 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.

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 21.5%, Sandbox 17.4%, Open World 14.8%, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 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.

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 28.7%, Sandbox 18.5%, Open World 15.3%, Character Customization 12.3%, Crafting 10.5%

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 19.4%, Open World 18.1%, Base Building 13.1%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Crafting 10.3%

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 19.5%, Open World 17.9%, Sandbox 16.3%, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 10.7%

Design, build, or pirate spaceships. Build bases on planets. Explore endless randomly generated universes, travel through black holes, command your crew, survive cosmic events, collect and trade materials, battle epic bosses, and much more. The sky is the limit, literally!

Why similar: Base Building 22.9%, Sandbox 21.1%, Open World 19.7%, Survival 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%

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 19.3%, Sandbox 18.4%, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 11.8%, Base Building 10.6%

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 20.8%, Open World 20.2%, Survival 16.3%, Crafting 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 12.6%

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 15.4%, Sandbox 14.5%, Open World 13.5%, Character Customization 11.4%, Procedural Generation 10.2%

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: Open World 24.7%, Sandbox 24.5%, Crafting 21.5%, Survival 20.7%, Action 4.6%

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 37.4% ★, Sandbox 23%, Open World 15.7%, RPG 10.1%, Simulation 6.1%

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%, Open World 19.4%, Crafting 13.6%, Procedural Generation 13.2%, RPG 10%

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 20.2%, Open World 16%, Sandbox 15.7%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 10.3%

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% ★, Pixel Graphics 12.6%, Atmospheric 12.6%, Female Protagonist 6.8%, Action 4%

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%, Sandbox 14.6%, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 13.1%, RPG 11.9%

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 16.3%, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 11.8%

Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!

Why similar: Survival 23.4%, Crafting 18.6%, Sandbox 18.6%, Pixel Graphics 17%, RPG 8.9%

BLASTRONAUT is a mining game in a procedural alien world. Explore, extract and profit.

Why similar: Sandbox 17.3%, Open World 16.2%, Base Building 16%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 10%

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 21.2%, Open World 19%, Survival 15%, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 13.7%

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 22.7%, Sandbox 16.3%, Open World 14.9%, Survival 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%

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 30.2%, Sandbox 25.7%, Base Building 24.8%, RPG 12.8%, Adventure 4.1%

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 21.9%, Sandbox 17%, Open World 15.3%, Survival 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%

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 18.3%, RPG 15%, Survival 14.6%, Simulation 14.1%, Procedural Generation 10.4%

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 18.1%, Sandbox 17.8%, Procedural Generation 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Crafting 10.6%

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 15.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Crafting 10.6%

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 30.7%, Open World 20.5%, Procedural Generation 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%, RPG 8.7%

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 22.8%, Crafting 19.3%, Open World 9.4%, Adventure 9%

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 18.4%, RPG 16.5%, Simulation 14.1%, Open World 13.7%, Sci-fi 11.2%

Customize your airship and explore the world above the clouds in this sim RPG

Why similar: RPG 41.3%, Simulation 34%, Pixel Graphics 17.2%, Indie 5%, Singleplayer 2.5%

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 29.3%, Sandbox 21.6%, Sci-fi 10.7%, RPG 10.4%, Open World 8.7%

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 28.9%, Sci-fi 19.9%, RPG 17%, Beautiful 15.2% ★, Action 6.4%