- #1 The Planet Crafter
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Automation 9.5%, Building 8.1%, Crafting 8%
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 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Automation 12.8%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 7.5%
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 3,132 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Mars 24% ★, Open World Survival Craft 21.8% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 7.3%, Building 6.2%
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 139,015 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 9.3%, Survival 8.4%, Sandbox 7.6%
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 4,679 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 13.2 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 25.9% ★, Agriculture 14.9% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.1%, Resource Management 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines mech-based exploration with farming and environmental restoration, capturing the cozy yet productive spirit of Blossom.
- #6 TerraTech Worlds
94% matchMixed63% of 2,287 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on modular vehicle building and planetary exploration, allowing for creative solutions to traversal and resource gathering.
- #7 Forever Skies
93% matchMostly Positive78% of 8,950 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.1%, Post-apocalyptic 7.9%, Open World 7.6%
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.
- #8 Astro Colony
92% matchVery Positive81% of 2,699 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 19.9%, Automation 17.5%, Space Sim 15.5%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and managing a space-faring colony, emphasizing automation and resource logistics in a sci-fi setting.
- #9 Satisfactory
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 278,339 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 112.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Base Building 18.1%, Automation 16.7%, Open World Survival Craft 13.9% ★, Crafting 9.9%, Building 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.
- #10 Wildmender
91% matchVery Positive84% of 2,225 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.2 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 33.8% ★, Agriculture 19.2% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the specific theme of restoring a desert ecosystem to life through gardening and careful environmental management.
- #11 No Man's Sky
90% matchVery Positive85% of 414,381 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.2% ★, Open World 12%, Space Sim 11.3%, Sandbox 7.4%, Survival 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers vast planetary exploration, base-building, and terraforming elements within a massive, procedurally generated universe.
- #12 Plan B: Terraform
89% matchVery Positive91% of 3,595 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.2 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 31.4% ★, Automation 16.5%, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 9.7%, Resource Management 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A dedicated terraforming simulation that emphasizes the macro-level logistics of changing a planet's atmosphere and temperature.
- #13 Space Trash Scavenger
89% matchVery Positive84% of 525 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Automation 11.8%, Space Sim 9.5%, Crafting 8.3%, 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.
- #14 Nova Lands
87% matchVery Positive89% of 3,518 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 21.8% ★, Automation 12.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Robots 11.1%, Sandbox 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A charming blend of automation, exploration, and sandbox building that captures the satisfying progression of a survival game.
- #15 Prospector
86% 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 17.2% ★, Robots 11.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Automation 10.2%, Building 7.5%
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.
- #16 Solarpunk™
85% matchVery Positive82% of 4,341 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 29% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Automation 10.5%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, sustainable-focused building game that emphasizes renewable energy and environmental harmony.
- #17 Astrometica
86% matchVery Positive83% of 3,181 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
Why similar: Space Sim 22%, Open World Survival Craft 15.4% ★, Automation 11.2%, Base Building 10.8%, 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.
- #18 StarRupture
84% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Automation 13.5%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building and survival with automation, tasking players with thriving on a planet that undergoes dramatic environmental changes.
- #19 Subnautica
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 378,847 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.5% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 9.4%
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 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
82% matchVery Positive85% of 4,645 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 20.4% ★, Agriculture 16% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 8.7%
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.
- #21 Volcanoids
82% matchVery Positive83% of 9,332 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Base Building 20.1%, Crafting 15.3%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 13.6%, Open World 11.1%
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.
- #22 Techtonica
81% matchMixed65% of 3,253 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 21.7%, Base Building 19%, Building 13.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10.8%
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.
- #23 FOUNDRY
81% matchVery Positive81% of 3,918 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.4 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 14.9%, Automation 13.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that allows for massive scale construction and complex logistics on an alien world.
- #24 Voidtrain
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,810 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 15.9 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 40.6% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 9%, Survival 7.9%, Building 7.4%
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 Dyson Sphere Program
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,542 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 75.8 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 22.1%, Base Building 20.4%, Building 11.4%, Space Sim 11.1%, Resource Management 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.
- #26 Hydroneer
79% matchVery Positive86% of 28,389 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.2 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 21.8%, Automation 20.8%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 12.6%, Open World 11%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the mining and building aspects of survival, allowing players to create complex automated systems for resource extraction.
- #27 The Last Caretaker
77% matchVery Positive86% of 13,056 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 19.6 hrsMean: 36.3 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 14.7%, Automation 14.6%, Crafting 11%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #28 Scrapnaut
80% matchMixed70% of 837 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 23.6% ★, Building 11.4%, Base Building 9.7%, Robots 8.7%, Survival 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game with a focus on building and crafting, featuring a unique art style and challenging environmental hazards.
- #29 ICARUS
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that includes terraforming missions and intense base-building against a ticking clock.
- #30 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,709 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Mars 16.8% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 7.7%, Survival 7.2%
- #31 Cubic Odyssey
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,720 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.2% ★, Base Building 17.3%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 11.3%, Sci-fi 7.2%
- #32 Sandustry
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,449 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 23.7% ★, Automation 11.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #33 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
75% matchVery Positive91% of 7,602 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Automation 10.9%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 7%
- #34 Skyformer
75% matchVery Positive83% of 87 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 28.6% ★, Automation 14%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 7.2%
- #35 Star Crafter
76% matchMixed70% of 106 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 27.8% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Automation 10.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #36 AETHUS
74% matchVery Positive95% of 2,015 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.3% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Automation 11%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 8.8%
- #37 Heat Death: Survival Train
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 718 reviews2024
Dev: Mass Game DevsPub: LightOnDevs
Windows
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 9.1%
- #38 Solace Crafting
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 898 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 33.2% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 9.3%, Survival 9.1%
- #39 Surviving Ceres
71% matchVery Positive87% of 139 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Base Building 21.1%, Crafting 18%, Building 17.1%, Survival 14.2%, Open World 13.2%
- #40 SpaceCraft
70% matchMixed65% of 2,687 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 47.3 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 20.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Automation 13%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 10.3%
- #41 Minicology
72% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Isaac DennerPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 21.8% ★, Space Sim 20%, Automation 10.3%, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 7.3%
- #42 Breathedge
70% matchVery Positive81% of 17,661 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 8.7%, Crafting 8.2%
- #43 Signs of Life
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 841 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9%, Building 7.7%
- #44 Remains
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 321 reviews2021
Dev: SoloQ
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #45 Omega Crafter
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 575 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 33.3% ★, Automation 15.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 8.5%, Open World 8.5%
- #46 Mars First Logistics
66% matchVery Positive95% of 3,744 reviews2025
Dev: Shape Shop
Windows
Median: 4.2 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 45.3% ★, Space Sim 14.5%, Robots 11.9%, Building 7.8%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #47 Life Not Supported
70% 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 33.3% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 9.7%, Survival 8.5%
- #48 ASTROBOTANICA
67% matchMixed68% of 98 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 51.4% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 7.8%, Survival 7.8%
- #49 Under A New Sun
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 400 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.3% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11%, Open World 9.9%, Survival 9.5%
- #50 Craterbound
69% matchMixed53% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Marquez
Windows
Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Space Sim 14.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 8.3%
- #51 One Lonely Outpost
67% matchMixed58% of 658 reviews2025
Dev: indie.io
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
An alien world sometimes needs a farmer’s touch to bring it to life. In this sci-fi, colonization-life sim, terraform a barren world: turn wastelands into verdant landscapes while exploring, farming, building, and unlocking all the mysteries of this strange new planet.
Why similar: Agriculture 25.1% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 12.5%, Crafting 12.4%
- #52 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
66% matchVery Positive85% of 637 reviews2024
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
Why similar: Robots 19%, Automation 18.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Open World Survival Craft 14.4% ★, Sandbox 12.8%
- #53 Evospace
68% matchVery Positive83% of 392 reviews2019
Dev: Quantum Rivet
Windows · Mac
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
Why similar: Base Building 19.8%, Automation 16.8%, Crafting 16%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 12.7%
- #54 Planet Explorers
69% 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 42.3% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Open World 11%, Crafting 9%, Survival 7.3%
- #55 Russian Village Simulator on Mars
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: VD Games
Windows
Develop a village colony on Mars, using various resources and bringing the unique flavor of Russian culture to the distant space.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Agriculture 19.2% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Robots 11.4%, Crafting 9.2%
