- #1 The Planet Crafter
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 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 25.8% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Automation 8.2%, Co-op 8.1%, Building 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game is the closest match, focusing entirely on the process of terraforming a dead planet through atmospheric and biological manipulation.
- #2 Eden Crafters
96% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 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 26.4% ★, Automation 11.4%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 8.1%, Sandbox 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the core loop of terraforming and automation, requiring players to build complex systems to change the planet's climate.
- #3 Occupy Mars: The Game
96% matchMixed70% of 3,170 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.2% ★, Mars 22.1% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 7.1%, Sandbox 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a realistic and challenging survival experience specifically set on Mars, emphasizing base-building and resource management.
- #4 ASTRONEER
95% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 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 30.7% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Open World 8.5%, Co-op 8%, Survival 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features similar voxel-based terrain manipulation and a focus on exploring alien worlds to gather resources for base expansion.
- #5 Lightyear Frontier
94% matchVery Positive84% of 4,735 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Automation 11.6%, Co-op 9%, Crafting 9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines mech-based exploration with farming and environmental restoration, capturing the cozy yet productive spirit of Blossom.
- #6 Forever Skies
94% 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: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Co-op 9.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Post-apocalyptic 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique airship-based mobile base that you must maintain and upgrade while exploring a ruined, post-apocalyptic world.
- #7 Satisfactory
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 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 16.7%, Automation 14.6%, Open World Survival Craft 13.2% ★, Crafting 9.1%, Co-op 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for automation and large-scale base-building on an alien planet, perfect for players who love the engineering side of survival games.
- #8 TerraTech Worlds
93% matchMixed63% of 2,297 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 21.8 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 26.3% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Co-op 8.8%, Crafting 8.4%, Sandbox 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on modular vehicle building and planetary exploration, allowing for creative solutions to traversal and resource gathering.
- #9 Wildmender
91% matchVery Positive84% of 2,245 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Agriculture 18.7% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the specific theme of restoring a desert ecosystem to life through gardening and careful environmental management.
- #10 Astro Colony
91% matchVery Positive81% of 2,730 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Base Building 20.1%, Automation 16.6%, Space Sim 15.7%, Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and managing a space-faring colony, emphasizing automation and resource logistics in a sci-fi setting.
- #11 No Man's Sky
90% matchVery Positive85% of 421,258 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.9 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 40% ★, Open World 11.9%, Space Sim 11.3%, Sandbox 7.5%, Survival 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers vast planetary exploration, base-building, and terraforming elements within a massive, procedurally generated universe.
- #12 Space Trash Scavenger
89% 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 Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Automation 11%, Space Sim 9.5%, Crafting 8.2%, Base Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the scavenging and survival aspects of space exploration, requiring players to build and maintain their own orbital base.
- #13 Plan B: Terraform
88% matchVery Positive91% of 3,674 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Why similar: Mars 32.9% ★, Automation 15.5%, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 9.8%, Resource Management 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A dedicated terraforming simulation that emphasizes the macro-level logistics of changing a planet's atmosphere and temperature.
- #14 Astrometica
87% matchVery Positive82% of 3,211 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: Space Sim 22.2%, Open World Survival Craft 16% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Automation 10.6%, Crafting 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A space survival game that emphasizes exploration and crafting while dealing with the dangers of a zero-gravity environment.
- #15 Solarpunk™
86% matchVery Positive81% of 4,581 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Co-op 9.4%, Automation 9%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, sustainable-focused building game that emphasizes renewable energy and environmental harmony.
- #16 Nova Lands
86% 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: Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Automation 12%, Base Building 11.9%, Robots 11.2%, Sandbox 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A charming blend of automation, exploration, and sandbox building that captures the satisfying progression of a survival game.
- #17 StarRupture
85% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 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 26.7% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Automation 11.6%, Co-op 9.2%, Crafting 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building and survival with automation, tasking players with thriving on a planet that undergoes dramatic environmental changes.
- #18 Prospector
84% 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: Open World Survival Craft 17.8% ★, Robots 12%, Base Building 10.9%, Automation 9.6%, Sandbox 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the resource management and building aspects of surviving on an alien world, emphasizing the industrial side of colonization.
- #19 Subnautica
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 380,795 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 40.3% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: While set underwater, it provides the definitive experience for exploration-driven survival and creative base-building in a hostile environment.
- #20 Volcanoids
83% 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: Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 13.2%, Co-op 13.1%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 12%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique drill-ship mechanic that serves as your mobile base, which you must upgrade to survive volcanic eruptions.
- #21 Techtonica
82% matchMixed65% of 3,273 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 18.8%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: An underground automation and base-building game that rewards players for exploring and exploiting the environment of an alien planet.
- #22 FOUNDRY
81% matchVery Positive81% of 3,960 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Robots 13.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Automation 11.8%, Co-op 9.4%, Crafting 9%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that allows for massive scale construction and complex logistics on an alien world.
- #23 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
81% matchVery Positive84% of 4,696 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.2% ★, Agriculture 14.9% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a relaxing take on the survival genre, focusing on building a base on a rooftop and automating tasks in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #24 Voidtrain
79% 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: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Co-op 10.3%, Crafting 7.9%, Survival 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features a modular train that acts as your base, which you must expand and upgrade while traveling through a strange interdimensional void.
- #25 ICARUS
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 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 34.2% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 9%, Co-op 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that includes terraforming missions and intense base-building against a ticking clock.
- #26 Dyson Sphere Program
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,831 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 76.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Base Building 21%, Building 11.9%, Space Sim 11.4%, Open World 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: The ultimate automation game that scales from building on a single planet to constructing massive structures across a star system.
- #27 Scrapnaut
80% 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: Open World Survival Craft 21.9% ★, Building 10.3%, Co-op 9.5%, Base Building 8.7%, Robots 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game with a focus on building and crafting, featuring a unique art style and challenging environmental hazards.
- #28 Hydroneer
78% matchVery Positive86% of 28,536 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Base Building 19.3%, Automation 17.3%, Co-op 13.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the mining and building aspects of survival, allowing players to create complex automated systems for resource extraction.
- #29 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,722 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 25.9% ★, Mars 17.2% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 7.5%, Survival 7.3%
- #30 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
76% matchVery Positive91% of 7,668 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 29.6% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Automation 10%, Crafting 7.8%, Open World 6.9%
- #31 Cubic Odyssey
77% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,754 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 34.9% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Co-op 11.4%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #32 Skyformer
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 96 reviews2026
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Automation 12.2%, Co-op 9.4%, Crafting 8.5%
- #33 Aloft
75% matchVery Positive83% of 3,782 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Co-op 11.3%, Agriculture 11.1% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Building 10.4%
- #34 The Last Caretaker
73% matchVery Positive86% of 13,935 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 37.4 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 14.9%, Automation 13.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Sandbox 10%
- #35 Last Breath
74% matchVery Positive84% of 80 reviews2026
Dev: Mx
Windows
Last Breath is a solo/cooperative terraforming survival game. Dig through terrain, build powerful machines, and restore life to a dead planet. Work together to survive, automate, and reshape the world from the ground up, literally.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 8%
- #36 Star Crafter
75% matchMostly Positive70% of 110 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Automation 10.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Resource Management 7%
- #37 Sandustry
72% 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: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Automation 11.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #38 Mars First Logistics
72% matchVery Positive95% of 3,795 reviews2025
Dev: Shape Shop
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build physically simulated rovers to transport awkwardly shaped cargo across the rugged terrain of Mars. Earn funds, unlock new parts, and use your ingenuity to help the Martians establish a new home. Playable solo or in online co-op!
Why similar: Mars 42% ★, Space Sim 13.1%, Co-op 11.3%, Robots 10.7%, Building 7%
- #39 SpaceCraft
73% matchMixed64% of 2,773 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 54.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
Why similar: Space Sim 19.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Automation 11.3%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 9.5%
- #40 Omega Crafter
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 579 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Automation 13.3%, Co-op 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 7.9%
- #41 Solace Crafting
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 899 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 8.5%, Survival 8.3%
- #42 Honeycomb: The World Beyond
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 228 reviews2026
Dev: Frozen WayPub: Snail Games USA
Windows
Honeycomb: The World Beyond is a sci-fi survival adventure set on the vibrant alien planet of Sota7. Adapt by building your base and crafting essential tools. Explore diverse biomes and use your bioengineering experience to uncover mysteries and secure humanity's future.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 8.7%, Open World 8%
- #43 Heat Death: Survival Train
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 730 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 30.8% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 9.1%
- #44 AETHUS
66% matchVery Positive95% of 2,081 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.4 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 23.1% ★, Base Building 13%, Automation 10.4%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 9%
- #45 Minicology
70% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Isaac DennerPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You have crash-landed into a mini-verse of tiny planets. Welcome to Minicology! Embark on an interstellar survival sandbox journey. Use your crafting, combat, and automation skills to survive the many challenges this mini-verse throws at you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.5% ★, Space Sim 20%, Base Building 9.8%, Automation 9.6%, Crafting 7.3%
- #46 Outbound
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,188 reviews2026
Dev: Square Glade Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Explore a colorful world and build your own cozy home on wheels. Craft workstations, and source energy from the sun, wind, or water. Upgrade and customize your vehicle, grow crops, and live sustainably off-grid with up to 4 players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #47 Signs of Life
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 846 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows · Linux
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 46.7% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 8.9%, Building 7.7%
- #48 Breathedge
68% 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: Open World Survival Craft 39.7% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 8%
- #49 Island Beekeeper
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 224 reviews2026
Dev: Akuseru Studio
Windows
Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Co-op 11%, Building 8.6%, Crafting 8%
- #50 Drift: Space Survival
69% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.3% ★, Base Building 10%, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 9%, Building 9%
- #51 Planet Explorers
70% matchMixed62% of 6,818 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 8.4%, Survival 7%
- #52 TerraTech
68% matchVery Positive91% of 25,032 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 32.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Robots 15.7%, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 9.2%
- #53 Life Not Supported
69% 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 34% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 9.7%, Survival 8.5%
- #54 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,438 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 26.9% ★, Space Sim 15.8%, Co-op 10.5%, Building 8.7%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #55 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
64% matchVery Positive84% of 705 reviews2026
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.
Why similar: Robots 19.3%, Automation 17.8%, Base Building 15.7%, Open World Survival Craft 15% ★, Sandbox 13.1%
- #56 ASTROBOTANICA
65% matchMixed66% of 102 reviews2026
Dev: Space Goblin Studio
Windows
Science-driven exploration adventure on prehistoric Earth with a relaxing vibe. Farming, crafting, puzzle-solving, and exploration on Prehistoric Earth, where you arrive as an alien botanist who is very good at plant research, but... can't breathe oxygen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.1% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 8.2%, Survival 7.8%, Open World 7.7%
- #57 Planetaries
67% matchMixed58% of 228 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 29% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 8.8%, Co-op 8.6%
