- #1 Wreck Poly Survival
97% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: FGS
Windows
Wreck Poly Survival is a low-poly survival and crafting game. Collect wood, stones and water, build shelters and hunt for food. Explore peaceful fields, light woodlands, and calm lakes as you craft tools and live at your own pace in a relaxing, minimalist world.
Why similar: Sandbox 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Simulation 19.1%, Adventure 19%, Survival 6.7%
- #2 Tail Blade
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PocketMyth
Windows
Play as a loyal dog with a sword in a cozy top-down adventure. Explore a peaceful world, fight enemies, collect items, craft useful tools, and interact with characters while uncovering a gentle story at your own pace.
Why similar: Sandbox 26.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Adventure 18%, Exploration 9.6%, Crafting 7.3%
- #3 悠闲的末日郊游-Traveling after Doomsday
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kwing works
Windows
Anyway, the world has already been destroyed, let's have a leisurely doomsday outing!
Why similar: Dystopian 18.6%, Sandbox 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Exploration 8.1%
- #4 Crystal: Automaton
95% matchPositive97% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: Balding Games
Windows
A short automation challenge aimed at everyone from beginner to veteran. Take your time to uncover the lore of an ancient civilization without any dangers. Can you find a clever way to use logistics to overcome the scarce space available?
Why similar: Sandbox 20.9%, Dystopian 13.1%, Automation 12.5%, Exploration 9.2%, Minimalist 8.9%
- #5 Junkman101
94% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: MaryIsHere
Windows · Mac
在一个程序化生成的 2D 像素沙盒世界中探索、挖掘和建造。收集矿物并熔炼,合成物品,升级标签。挑战怪物、发现遗迹,体验自由的冒险与创造之旅。
Why similar: Sandbox 28.7%, Simulation 21.8%, Adventure 13.9%, Exploration 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%
- #6 Empire Game:Pixel Hero
94% matchMixed57% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: Empire Game Team
Windows
A troop-clash strategy game. Choose your hero, command minions, crush enemy formations! Inspired by Heroes of Might & Magic and Hero's Hour. Multiple races with national styles like Huaxia and France. Random maps = unique fun every game! Endless development & combat!
Why similar: Sandbox 30.8%, Simulation 23.4%, Adventure 16%, Pixel Graphics 12%, Exploration 11.9%
- #7 The Crisis Zone
93% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: HALVA Studio
Windows
The Crisis Zone is a sci-fi exploration game with elements of horror in a dramatic atmosphere. Explore this open world and find information about how you got here and how you can escape from this quarantine zone. Avoid the monsters and security drones patrolling the territory
Why similar: Dystopian 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Sandbox 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Exploration 9.6%
- #8 Obedient Servant
92% matchMixed61% of 18 reviews2022
Dev: Nikita Morti
Windows
Servant of the king or hero of the Mediterranean kingdom? What happens if an ordinary servant who cannot hold a sword decides to be promoted to the knights or even the royal guard?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36%, Adventure 24.6%, Exploration 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Simulation 9%
- #9 Ruin Adventurer
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Finnchen123
Windows · Linux
‘Ruin Adventurer’ is an automation game with survival and programming elements. Use your robots to ensure your survival, automate resource gathering, and ultimately escape the ruins.
Why similar: Sandbox 24.6%, Simulation 18.6%, Minimalist 11.5%, Exploration 9.7%, Automation 9.4%
- #10 Keplerth
90% matchVery Positive84% of 4,155 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 16.1 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 29.2%, Exploration 12.3%, Adventure 12%, Survival 10.7%, Sci-fi 9.8%
- #11 Shaper
91% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2022
Dev: 生长工作室
Windows
《Shaper》 is a sandbox building exploration game. Defeat enemies and monsters by collecting square materials to synthesize tools and equipment. Build unique buildings to survive and develop in this fantastic world.
Why similar: Sandbox 38.6%, Adventure 20.2%, Exploration 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 11%, Crafting 8.3%
- #12 Above The Horizon
89% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: BigUpdate Games
Windows
Above The Horizon is terraformation survival crafting game where you crash landed above the planet "Lunaris". The rest of your colonization team landed safely on the planet... so it's up to you to get back to the planet and terraform it along the way!
Why similar: Sandbox 35.3%, Adventure 22.8%, Exploration 13.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Sci-fi 8.2%
- #13 Merchant's Game
89% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: Can Universe
Windows
Merchant's Game is a 2D pixelart open-ended game that you hire npc's, negotiate prices, sell and buy items to pay your debt to the lanlord and maintaining your shop.
Why similar: Sandbox 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Simulation 13.5%, Adventure 12.6%, Logic 9.6%
- #14 Horrors Glade
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: djva caravana
Windows
You are a young scientist whose experiment turned into a disaster. When you wake up in the heart of a creepy forest, where every whisper of the wind hides a threat, you realize: there are no rules here. There is only hunger, fear, and shadows hungry for your flesh.
Why similar: Sandbox 31.1%, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 13.6%, Exploration 12%, Simulation 10.3%
- #15 middenmoon
86% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: Dorfl
Windows · Linux
That's no moon. It's a giant ball of garbage. Build a factory to excavate, wash, sort, classify and disassemble the detritus of ages past.
Why similar: Sandbox 40.7%, Simulation 15.6%, Sci-fi 13.2%, Automation 11.5%, Minimalist 9.1%
- #16 Grind and Dine
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mozeby
Windows
You've lost everything and returned to your hometown, forced to start over to survive. This city is filled with both opportunities and dangers. Can you carve out a new life in this unforgiving environment?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.1%, Sandbox 27.7%, Exploration 12.5%, Simulation 11.5%, Survival 9.9%
- #17 Dyscourse
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 444 reviews2015
Dev: Owlchemy Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dyscourse is an interactive choice-based narrative adventure game where you journey through a stylized world of choice and consequence. Choose wisely.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 40.3%, Adventure 22.4%, Simulation 18.2%, Survival 9.8%, Choices Matter 5.3%
- #18 Natura: Reborn
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stargazing Games
Windows
Natura: Reborn is a top-down sandbox adventure where nature and creatures have fused. Explore, survive, and fight through an overgrown fantasy world.
Why similar: Sandbox 32.5%, Adventure 21.8%, Exploration 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 9%, Crafting 7.8%
- #19 Corelink Protocol
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Corelink Studio
Windows
A peaceful 2D sandbox. Explore biomes, build bases above and below water, manage oxygen, pressure, seasons and energy. Automate conveyors, fluid systems, sensors and advanced machines. Grow crops, tame animals, create a living world driven by logic, systems and creativity, all without any fighting.
Why similar: Sandbox 29.1%, Automation 16.1%, Logic 9.9%, Simulation 8.7%, Crafting 8.3%
- #20 2D Factory
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alexandre Hamelin
Windows
Turn a wild pixel-art world into a living factory. Gather by hand, automate five industrial tiers, explore for powerful optional upgrades, and master belts, pipes, power grids, rovers, trains and nuclear energy—solo or in online co-op for up to 8 players.
Why similar: Sandbox 28.8%, Simulation 20.5%, Automation 11.6%, Exploration 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%
- #21 Cursed Core
82% matchPositive100% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: BekkerDev Studio
Windows
Cursed Core is a small, hardcore survival sandbox set in an open, randomly generated world.
Why similar: Sandbox 31%, Simulation 17.6%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10.3%, Adventure 9.6%
- #22 Squaxel
84% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2020
Dev: Asuna Marie
Windows · Mac · Linux
Discover, build, destroy, take a walk on flying islands ! That's only one part from all the things that the game can give you !
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Sandbox 36.2%, Pixel Graphics 13.6%, 2D 7.7%, Indie 5%
- #23 Lumber and Plunder
81% matchMixed42% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: Cozy FoxPub: Sailing Fox Studios
Windows
An exploration-focused game set on a remote island said to hide a long-forgotten treasure. Scavenge resources, sell what you find, upgrade your gear, and carve your way through a mysterious forest. Uncover scattered clues, piece together a legend, and conquer the mountain- at your own pace.
Why similar: Sandbox 30%, Adventure 22.9%, Simulation 22.1%, Exploration 11.7%, Crafting 8%
- #24 Hustler Simulator
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FlyBy Studios
Windows
Make your mark in the city that never sleeps. Hustle your way to fortune with legal and illegal schemes, upgrade your tools, and outsmart the competition.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37.5%, Sandbox 31.3%, Simulation 20.3%, Adventure 6.3%, Open World 3.3%
- #25 LANDLOCK Project Wild
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TheDeskCrewPub: Cory Green
Windows
Embark on a hardcore survival journey in LANDLOCK, where creativity meets unforgiving challenges. Explore, build bases, fight enemies, terraform landscapes, craft strategically, and let your imagination run wild in this pioneering adventure! Are you ready for your ultimate test of survival?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Sandbox 23%, Exploration 10.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 8.7%
- #26 Darkout
81% matchMixed48% of 883 reviews2013
Dev: AllgrafPub: KISS ltd
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Crashed and alone on a world mankind tried to leave behind, Darkout challenges players to survive on Illuna, in harsh, procedurally generated biomes, utilizing the game’s sandbox features to build shelters, craft weapons, and research new technologies.You are not alone.
Why similar: Sandbox 46.4%, Crafting 13.9%, Adventure 12.1%, Survival 11.7%, Sci-fi 11.2%
- #27 Phantom Town
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hard Shark Games
Windows
Phantom Town drops you into a fog-choked, abandoned city where every step feels uncertain. Wander, search, and survive as you get lost in the silence, with tension building as you explore deeper into the unknown.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.8%, Sandbox 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Adventure 14.8%, Survival 10.6%
- #28 Red Frost
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows · Mac
A story-driven, first person perspective, post-apocalyptic survival adventure set in the rough winter climates of last century’s Russia.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.1%, Simulation 16.7%, Adventure 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Survival 10%
- #29 ERRANTE
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 68 reviews2022
Dev: Errant Interactive
Windows
This is an experimental project, a sandbox life simulator that gives you the power to suggest how the game should evolve, which features we should focus on, which slice of life to tell and everything you can imagine.
Why similar: Sandbox 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Simulation 13.1%, Dystopian 12.8%, Minimalist 8.4%
- #30 O EMPIRE! WARD OFF THY ROT
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dean Moynihan
Windows
A slow, meditative survival journey across a bleak continent. Carry an evil artifact, manage scarce resources, scavenge abandoned places and decide how far you’re willing to endure in a world that offers no reassurance.
Why similar: Adventure 22.9%, Minimalist 18.8%, Dystopian 18.1%, Exploration 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%
- #31 末路希冀
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 18 reviews2022
Dev: 攸心工作室Pub: VVAI 社
Windows
《末路希冀》是一款设定在末世后的生存冒险游戏。你将为了在凶险的末世生存而竭尽全力,并为了生存下来的希冀而踏上冒险的旅途。整理好你的装备,选择你在末世生存的道具,末世的旅途在就脚下
Why similar: Sandbox 30.5%, Simulation 19.9%, Dystopian 19.6%, Adventure 16.6%, Survival 12.1%
- #32 Steamwrecked
75% matchMixed64% of 42 reviews2026
Dev: sTeam
Windows
Ascend the skies and escape the hot desert caused by humanity's over usage of fossil fuels. Find blueprints, scavenge and craft items to build your airship to soar the skies up to society once more. Can you survive this tragedy or fall prey to the harsh nature of this decaying world?
Why similar: Sandbox 41.8%, Adventure 21.4%, Survival 14.4%, Exploration 12%, Crafting 8.9%
- #33 Craft in Peace
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TonysCraft
Windows
A relaxing pixel-art survival crafting game. Gather resources, craft tools, and build a thriving settlement step by step. Explore the forest, discover new materials, and create a cozy home for your community.
Why similar: Sandbox 28.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%
- #34 CellSar
76% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: DrSamatha
Windows
A sandbox game about collecting cells, building machines and organs out of cells and keeping them alive.
Why similar: Sandbox 43%, Adventure 23.3%, Simulation 23.2%, Exploration 8.9%, Indie 1.6%
- #35 License To Clone
74% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Jam Donut Games
Windows
License To Clone is a challenging Open World Sandbox Survival RPG where you learn through survival. Explore a desert with a dynamic economy full of rogue factions. Experiment with powerful mutations. Tame creatures and extract powerful body parts to splice your DNA in your cloning lab.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Sandbox 19%, Simulation 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Adventure 9.2%
- #36 City 20
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 197 reviews2024
Dev: Untold Games
Windows
Survive in a living post-apocalyptic city. Scavenge, craft, and build to stay alive, while earning trust or sparking conflict with the NPCs and factions who shape your fate.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Simulation 9.4%, Crafting 9.1%
- #37 Arth Island
74% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: Marciel
Windows
Gather resources, set up a camp, choose your class, level up your skills, don't die of cold or starvation and battle the other failed experiments to survive as long as possible on this procedurally generated island
Why similar: Sandbox 30.9%, Exploration 16.1%, Simulation 14.9%, Survival 11%, Procedural Generation 6.2%
- #38 Shards of Azuria
75% 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: Sandbox 27.3%, Adventure 23.2%, Crafting 15.1%, Survival 10%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%
- #39 Sweet Land Survival
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Arc Moon
Windows
Sweet Land is an action-survival game with crafting: play a bear stranded on a candy island. Manage hunger, fish, gather food, and use jams to stay strong. Two allied bears help you collect resources and fight strange creatures. Quick wits and teamwork keep you alive.
Why similar: Sandbox 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Simulation 19.6%, Adventure 18.7%, Exploration 7.8%
- #40 Paper Beast - Folded Edition
72% matchVery Positive84% of 233 reviews2020
Dev: Pixel Reef
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 49%
An exploration and adventure game about wildlife sprung from the depths of the internet. An unknown power seems to upset its balance. Join forces with exotic creatures to unravel the mysteries of this universe.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Simulation 14.4%, Adventure 13.5%, Exploration 11%
- #41 Survivance
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Endless Worlds Studio
Windows
Stranded on an uncharted alien world with a broken ship and no rescue coming. Scan the wildlife, uncover the truth behind abandoned human outposts, and build the technology you need to escape, before this planet becomes your grave.
Why similar: Sandbox 30.9%, Survival 14.6%, Exploration 14.4%, Adventure 12.2%, Sci-fi 7.7%
- #42 MudBox
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: sout
Windows
A 2D sandbox game with pixel physics. Freely place sand, water, lava, creatures, and physical entities. Watch them interact via gravity, fluids, and explosions. Chop trees, build structures, design circuits, trigger massive chain reactions, or simply create your own ecosystem!
Why similar: Sandbox 31.5%, Exploration 11.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Automation 10%
- #43 Plasma
70% matchVery Positive90% of 1,138 reviews2023
Dev: Dry CactusPub: Dry Licorice
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Sandbox 25.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Simulation 11.9%, Automation 11.2%, Logic 10.3%
- #44 Submersa
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 3TK Games
Windows
Submersa is an underwater exploration game where you operate a functional submarine and manage its systems while exploring dangerous ocean depths. Control ballast, power, oxygen, fuel, and pressure as you descend into hostile environments.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.9%, Sandbox 25.6%, Exploration 12.3%, Simulation 10.4%, Adventure 7.5%
- #45 Femboy Depths
69% matchMostly Negative27% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: BuuPink
Windows
Adult 3D interactive exploration game where you control Lumen, a femboy living in a shared house. Explore the environment, interact with objects and housemates, build intimacy, and unlock animated scenes in a stylized, mature-themed experience.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Adventure 18.8%, Simulation 18.2%, Exploration 8.9%
- #46 CRAFTSMAN
71% matchMostly Negative31% of 29 reviews2021
Dev: Boom TeamPub: Sweet Games
Windows
Craftsman is a game about a cubic world in which you can build anything you want. Explore the location, get resources and indulge in creativity!
Why similar: Sandbox 26.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Simulation 11%, Adventure 10.3%
- #47 The Adventurer’s Trial
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HY Studio
Windows
Every adventurer must face the Trial — a boundless pixel-art sandbox where you can explore, build, mine, farm, and challenge epic bosses. Play solo or with up to 3 friends in thrilling top-down adventures.
Why similar: Sandbox 33.4%, Adventure 14.8%, Exploration 13%, Crafting 11.3%, 2D 6.2%
- #48 Profectus
70% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2021
Dev: Alrek Studios
Windows
Rise through the ages. In Profectus you start with nothing but a world to explore. Your goal is to use what you are given to the fullest extent and work your way up from the stone age into space.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.6%, Simulation 24%, Adventure 14.3%, Crafting 14.1%, Exploration 8.8%
- #49 Float Night
70% matchMixed70% of 60 reviews2018
Dev: Meng Games
Windows
Float Night is a small sandbox game that is easy to collect resources, simple to build, no craft, and sustainable.
Why similar: Sandbox 61.1%, Simulation 14.2%, Adventure 12.9%, Survival 4.6%, Sci-fi 4.6%
- #50 LoafWhisk
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Shell BouncePub: STFoggy124
Windows
In this game you play as a small girl who loves making bread. she awakens on a platform with many stations and a weird green fellow. can you escape?
Why similar: Sandbox 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Simulation 12.6%, Adventure 12%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%
- #51 Rawbots
68% matchMixed65% of 31 reviews2022
Dev: Rawbots Interactive Inc.
Windows
A universe where you can play with amazing robots that are designed, built and even programmed by you.
Why similar: Sandbox 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Simulation 19.4%, Adventure 19.3%, Crafting 6.5%
- #52 Calling Home
67% matchMixed45% of 20 reviews2023
Dev: Crystal Fox GmbH
Windows
Calling Home is an exciting sci-fi simulation resource management game that draws heavily from games in the factory-building and exploration genres, providing a thrilling mix of building your base, researching, factory management, puzzle solving, exploration, and resource gathering.
Why similar: Sandbox 26.2%, Minimalist 13.6%, Simulation 12.8%, Adventure 12.6%, Automation 10.7%
- #53 Project Create
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Norcher Developments
Windows
Gain experience and level up in this voxel sandbox world as you travel through space and time. Craft equipment and recipes to help you survive the treacherous landscape and sculpt it into your own masterpiece!
Why similar: Sandbox 29.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Crafting 12%, Adventure 11%, Survival 9.9%
- #54 Alterworld
67% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: Poonpoonza
Windows
Explore the infinite world! Play with the fully destructible voxel terrain! Craft and split items! Build and customize a house or any building! And many more! This is the ultimate sandbox survival game where you can do almost anything you can dream!
Why similar: Sandbox 36.2%, Adventure 23.1%, Exploration 14%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 7.8%
- #55 Far Out
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bekardo
Windows
Explore procedurally generated worlds, discover unique, randomly generated resources, create tools and machines in a free-form crafting system and progress from sticks and stones to space rockets in a sandbox loop of discovering and inventing
Why similar: Sandbox 31.1%, Adventure 22%, Automation 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Crafting 8.3%
- #56 Pixelum
66% matchMixed48% of 73 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 26.1%, Simulation 22.1%, Adventure 19.9%, Survival 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%
- #57 Crafting Block World
68% matchMixed47% of 55 reviews2019
Dev: IO Games
Windows
Crafting Block World is an adventure with sandbox elements that will help you build your ideal world!
Why similar: Sandbox 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Simulation 11.1%, Survival 9.6%, Adventure 7.8%