Games Like Breathedge

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 40.5% ★, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 7.4%, Open World 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for open-world survival, sharing the same core loop of scavenging and base-building in a hostile, alien environment.

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 32.1% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Space 10.7%, Survival 8.9%, Crafting 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the terraforming and base-building aspects of survival, mirroring the progression feel of Breathedge.

Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.9% ★, Survival 11.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 5.8%, Open World 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A direct follow-up to the survival mechanics of the original, offering a refined experience in a frozen, alien setting.

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 35% ★, Space 14.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a more stylized, lighthearted approach to space exploration and base-building with a heavy focus on terraforming and resource management.

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.9% ★, Space 16%, Survival 7.9%, Open World 7.2%, Sandbox 7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the ultimate space exploration and survival sandbox experience with vast, procedurally generated galaxies to scavenge and build in.

Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

Why similar: Space 40.5%, Sandbox 21%, Sci-fi 19.1%, First-Person 8.3%, Open World 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Perfectly captures the specific 'scavenging wreckage' gameplay loop found in Breathedge, focusing on the technical side of dismantling space debris.

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 34.5% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique vertical survival loop where you scavenge a ruined world from a mobile airship base.

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 44.7% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 7.5%, Sandbox 7%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique survival mechanic centered around building and upgrading a train that travels through an interdimensional void.

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 38.8% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 8.3%, Space 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that emphasizes sci-fi crafting and intense, time-pressured missions on a dangerous alien world.

Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.

Why similar: Survival 19.2%, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 14.4%, Sandbox 12.5%, Sci-fi 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: While set on Earth, it shares the 'maintaining a mobile home/base' mechanic and the atmospheric tension of surviving in a hostile, anomalous zone.

The Solus Project is a single player exploration adventure with survival elements. The adventure is set on a mysterious planet and is the spiritual successor to The Ball - 2010 PC Gamer Action/Adventure Game Of The Year...

Why similar: Survival 28.4%, Space 16.7%, Sci-fi 13.3%, First-Person 7.3%, Exploration 6%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a strong atmospheric survival experience on a mysterious, hostile planet that emphasizes exploration and narrative discovery.

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: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique base-building mechanic where your base is a mobile drill ship that you must upgrade to survive volcanic eruptions.

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 34.4% ★, Space 12.7%, Survival 9.2%, Sandbox 8.6%, Base Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the scavenging loop of Breathedge by tasking players with cleaning up space debris in a zero-gravity environment.

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: Open World Survival Craft 22.1% ★, Space 14.8%, Survival 12.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A space survival game that emphasizes zero-gravity movement and resource gathering in the aftermath of a catastrophe.

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Base Building 21%, Space 20.6%, Sandbox 16.1%, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a much deeper, more complex simulation of space survival for players who want to master the technical aspects of life support and engineering.

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.3% ★, Survival 17%, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the core 'scavenging while floating' mechanic, requiring players to build and expand their base while drifting through a hazardous environment.

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: Open World Survival Craft 45.4% ★, Sandbox 12.4%, Space 11.1%, Survival 8.3%, Crafting 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D space survival game that offers deep exploration, crafting, and base-building across a variety of procedurally generated planets.

Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.

Why similar: Base Building 26.2%, Survival 21.3%, Space 16.6%, Sci-fi 12.1%, Crafting 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and base-building with a unique narrative focus on managing different versions of yourself to survive a hostile planet.

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 33.4% ★, Space 12.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on modular base building and survival in the vacuum of space, requiring careful resource management to stay alive.

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 36.7% ★, Space 15%, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers extensive space survival and ship-building mechanics that allow for both planetary exploration and orbital base construction.

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.5% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 6.1%, Sandbox 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival experience that shares the 'scavenging for parts to survive' loop, though set in an oceanic environment.

The Moon has gone dark, cutting off Earth’s last source of energy. As a lone astronaut, you’ll explore abandoned lunar bases, solve intricate puzzles, and navigate stunning zero-gravity environments. Operate advanced vehicles, uncover hidden truths, and survive in this gripping sci-fi thriller.

Why similar: Space 40.4%, Sci-fi 15.8%, Adventure 10.3%, Atmospheric 7.5%, Indie 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the narrative and atmospheric side of space exploration, capturing the feeling of being alone in a desolate, sci-fi setting.

A fiercely formidable sci-fi survival game, set on a hostile alien world that wants you dead! Alone, or with a crew, do you have what it takes to survive?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.2% ★, Base Building 13%, Survival 11.8%, Space 9.2%, Crafting 9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that emphasizes sci-fi crafting and exploration on a vibrant, dangerous alien world.

Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Space 9.7%, Sandbox 9.6%, Crafting 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automation and base-building in a sci-fi setting, perfect for players who enjoy the progression systems in Breathedge.

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: Space 16.2%, Base Building 15.9%, Sandbox 13.2%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly detailed resource management and base-building experience specifically focused on surviving the harsh Martian environment.

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 18.1%, Sandbox 14.2%, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 12.5%, Sci-fi 9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival and base-building game set in a sci-fi environment that emphasizes resource gathering and structural maintenance.

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 31.1% ★, Space 12.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A space survival game that emphasizes crafting and base-building while dealing with the hazards of deep space.

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 37.9% ★, Space 13.6%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 8.3%, Crafting 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated zero-gravity survival game that focuses on the challenges of movement and resource management in space.

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 31.8% ★, Space 12.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 9.1%, Crafting 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and survival in a space setting, encouraging players to scavenge and build in a hostile environment.

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 35.4% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 10.4%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 8.6%

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 41% ★, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 6.4%

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: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 8.2%, Crafting 8.1%

Investigate a starship crash, explore a hostile world, build shelters and survive nightly attacks of the Rot. Tear down any structure and experience total freedom of action.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.1% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 9%

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Base Building 35.2%, Survival 24.3%, Space 12.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, Sci-fi 4.7%

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 20.8%, Space 20.1%, Sandbox 15.8%, Survival 15.7%, Sci-fi 9.9%

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 40.8% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 7.2%

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 34% ★, Space 12.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 7.4%

Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.2% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 9.2%, Sandbox 9%

Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 8.8%

GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 11.3%, Sandbox 8.7%, Space 8.5%

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.1% ★, Survival 16.4%, Open World 6.4%, Crafting 5.2%, Sandbox 5.2%

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 34.3% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 10.2%, Space 8.7%, Sci-fi 6.6%

Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.9% ★, Sandbox 14%, Space 10.4%, Crafting 7.1%, Survival 6.4%

Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Space 11.5%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 8.1%

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 36.1% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 8.3%, Sandbox 8%

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Sandbox 20.6%, Survival 18.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 16.5%, Open World 11.2%

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: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11.1%, Survival 10.2%, Space 8.4%

Science-driven survival with a relaxing vibe. Farming, base building, crafting, animal taming, 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 40.9% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 6.7%, Sandbox 5.7%

Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.1% ★, Survival 14.1%, Sandbox 7.3%, Crafting 6.6%, Open World 5.8%

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 45.2% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Survival 9.8%, Space 9.6%, Crafting 8.4%

You've barely managed to escape your exploding spaceship. Now in an old escape pod, you hurtle through space at the mercy of the cosmos. With no knowledge of the pod’s complex systems, your life depends on a technical manual and your own wits. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Space 35%, Survival 24.6%, Sci-fi 14.8%, First-Person 10.5%, Atmospheric 4.9%

Spirit of the North is a single-player 3rd-person adventure game inspired by the breathtaking and mysterious landscapes of Iceland. Play as an ordinary red fox whose story becomes entwined with the guardian of the Northern Lights, a female spirit fox.

Why similar: Adventure 32.2%, Indie 24%, Exploration 17.1%, Atmospheric 15.5%, Singleplayer 5.8%

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 35% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Survival 8.4%

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 26.4% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Space 11.8%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 10.1%

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 34.9% ★, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 10.4%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 8.8%

DESOLATE is a first person horror survival experience. Form a research team with up to 4 players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions, or do it all on your own.

Why similar: Survival 43.4%, Open World 23.4%, First-Person 12.4%, Adventure 4.9%, Crafting 4.5%

Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.7% ★, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 5.2%