- #1 Subnautica
97% 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 40.8% ★, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 7%, Open World 6%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the same core underwater survival loop of gathering resources and expanding a base from a damaged vessel.
- #2 The Planet Crafter
96% 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 33.4% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Space 11.1%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on terraforming and expansive base-building within a desolate, alien environment.
- #3 No Man's Sky
96% 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 38.7% ★, Space 15.6%, Survival 7.7%, Open World 7.3%, Sandbox 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Expands the cosmic exploration and crafting scale to an infinite universe of procedurally generated planets.
- #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 35.2% ★, Space 13.9%, Survival 10%, Base Building 9.8%, Sandbox 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a charming, stylized space survival and terraforming sandbox heavily centered around creative base building.
- #5 Hardspace: Shipbreaker
94% matchVery Positive89% of 22,441 reviews2022
Dev: Blackbird Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 41%, Sandbox 20.8%, Sci-fi 19.1%, First-Person 8.2%, Singleplayer 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the blue-collar, hazardous sci-fi space salvage vibe as you meticulously dismantle wrecks.
- #6 Voidtrain
94% 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 45.2% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 7.1%, Sandbox 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Replaces outer space with an endless mystical void where you build and upgrade a moving train base just like Breathedge's stations.
- #7 Forever Skies
93% 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 35.3% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 9%, Open World 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Tasks you with surviving and scavenging aboard a mobile airship high above an ecological ruin, mirroring the vehicle-base dynamic.
- #8 Subnautica: Below Zero
92% matchVery Positive90% of 108,517 reviews2021
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.5 hrsMean: 30.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 41% ★, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 10%, Open World 5.7%, Crafting 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers more of the critically acclaimed survival crafting and story progression in a frozen alien biosphere.
- #9 Occupy Mars: The Game
91% 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 34.9% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 8.8%, Space 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to survive the harsh red planet through detailed base-building, life-support management, and crafting.
- #10 Starbound
91% matchVery Positive90% of 123,321 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 45.8% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, Space 11%, Survival 8.2%, Crafting 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Translates the space survival and crafting loop into a 2D sandbox adventure filled with alien exploration.
- #11 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
90% 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 37.2% ★, Space 14.9%, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 9.6%, Crafting 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines deep space exploration, voxel-based building, and survival mechanics on seamless planetary surfaces.
- #12 Stranded Deep
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,919 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 53.8% ★, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 6.2%, Sandbox 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: Tests your open-world survival and crafting skills against the elements after surviving a catastrophic crash.
- #13 Volcanoids
89% 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 19.3%, Sandbox 15.7%, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 13.6%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Lets you build and upgrade a massive steampunk drillship that serves as your mobile base and survival stronghold.
- #14 ICARUS
88% 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 39.3% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 12.5%, Space 8%, Crafting 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes intense survival loops, atmospheric challenges, and building on hostile alien worlds.
- #15 Astrometica
86% 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: Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Space 14.8%, Survival 13%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses entirely on first-person space survival, resource gathering, and exploring floating wreckage.
- #16 Space Trash Scavenger
85% 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 35.1% ★, Space 12.7%, Survival 9.3%, Sandbox 8.5%, Base Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Puts you in a spacesuit collecting debris and building a customized base in orbit around strange planets.
- #17 Life Not Supported
86% 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 33.6% ★, Space 12.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Traps you in the wreckage of a spaceship where you must slowly expand your makeshift home and survive the void.
- #18 Drift: Space Survival
84% 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 38.7% ★, Space 13.6%, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 8%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines zero-gravity survival mechanics with exploration of drifting space debris and derelict ships.
- #19 Raft
82% matchVery Positive93% of 379,035 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 38.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 48.1% ★, Survival 16.8%, Base Building 8.9%, Crafting 8%, Sandbox 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: Translates the floating debris-collection survival loop into an ocean setting where you expand a growing vessel.
- #20 Starsand
84% matchMixed66% of 1,268 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 35.3% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 10%, Sandbox 8.1%, Crafting 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Replaces the cold vacuum with scorching desert survival, combining crafting, building, and mysterious lore.
- #21 The Long Dark
83% matchVery Positive89% of 123,946 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 53.8% ★, Survival 16.4%, Open World 6.6%, Sandbox 5.1%, Crafting 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses purely on atmospheric, solitary survival against freezing elements and wildlife.
- #22 Space Engineers
82% matchVery Positive89% of 134,498 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Space 22.4%, Base Building 20.1%, Sandbox 16.9%, Survival 16.2%, Open World 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Allows for complex construction and survival mechanics in a fully destructible space environment.
- #23 Green Hell
81% matchVery Positive85% of 102,938 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 48.2% ★, Survival 14%, Base Building 8.2%, Crafting 7%, Open World 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a deeply immersive survival experience centered on crafting, health management, and hostile wilderness.
- #24 Breathedge 2
77% matchVery Positive87% of 1,680 reviews2026
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Survive on the edge of space! Craft and upgrade tools, scavenge resources, and save a galaxy gone completely off the rails. Can Ordinary Man save the galaxy with the help of the immortal Chicken and some duct tape?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Space 13.1%, Survival 11.1%, Sandbox 8.6%, Base Building 5.7%
- #25 Deliver Us The Moon
80% matchVery Positive88% of 9,582 reviews2019
Dev: KeokeN InteractivePub: Wired Productions
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Deliver Us The Moon is a Sci-Fi thriller set in an apocalyptic near future where Earth's natural resources are depleted. In an effort to solve the energy crisis, global powers created the World Space Agency and secured a promising new source of energy on the moon.
Why similar: Space 40.4%, Sci-fi 15.7%, Adventure 10.2%, Atmospheric 7.2%, Indie 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a narrative-driven sci-fi atmospheric experience exploring abandoned lunar facilities.
- #26 RimWorld
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 247,065 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.4 hrsMean: 267.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Base Building 30.4%, Survival 21.5%, Sandbox 17.6%, Sci-fi 11.5%, Open World 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a sci-fi colony survival simulation with deep storytelling and base management.
- #27 Outer Wilds
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 108,541 reviews2020
Dev: Mobius DigitalPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
Why similar: Space 39.4%, Open World 11.8%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Exploration 9.3%, Atmospheric 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the cosmic mystery and ship-piloting mechanics of exploring a small, handcrafted solar system.
- #28 Planetbase
79% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,466 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Why similar: Space 28.7%, Base Building 27.4%, Survival 18.5%, Sci-fi 7.3%, Sandbox 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to guide a group of space colonists to establish a self-sufficient base on distant worlds.
- #29 The Last Caretaker
75% 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 18.8%, Survival 15.3%, Sandbox 14.9%, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 9%
- #30 Journey To The Savage Planet
78% matchVery Positive87% of 6,926 reviews2021
Dev: TyphoonPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
"WELCOME TO THE PIONEER PROGRAM! As the newest recruit of Kindred Aerospace - The 4th best interstellar space exploration company - Your job is to determine if the planet ARY-26 planet is fit for humans. You may be short on equipment and experience, but you'll figure it out. Good luck!
Why similar: First-Person 24.5%, Exploration 18.6%, Adventure 15.5%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Sci-fi 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Blends quirky, comedic sci-fi exploration and crafting on a bizarre alien world.
- #31 Abiotic Factor
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 59,444 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 21.2 hrsMean: 46.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 36.6% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #32 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 35.9% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11.2%, Sandbox 7.7%, Crafting 7.7%
- #33 Subnautica 2
73% matchVery Positive91% of 128,024 reviews2026
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone or with friends in 4-player co-op. Adapt to survive by building custom bases and crafting tools. Explore the unknown to uncover the mysteries hidden within the depths.
Why similar: Survival 26.4%, Open World 12.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, Base Building 8.7%, First-Person 8.2%
- #34 Remains
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 323 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 31.8% ★, Space 12.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #35 Under A New Sun
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 406 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 41.9% ★, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 6.6%
- #36 Survival: Fountain of Youth
72% matchVery Positive85% of 4,528 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 39.1% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 8.9%, Crafting 8.7%
- #37 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
71% 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 39.8% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 8.5%, Space 8%, Crafting 7.7%
- #38 Craterbound
75% 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 32.6% ★, Space 12.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 6.8%
- #39 The Alters
70% matchVery Positive90% of 19,916 reviews2025
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Experience an award-winning, story-driven sci-fi survival game. Help Jan Dolski, the survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoil with his unconventional crew.
Why similar: Base Building 26.1%, Survival 22.2%, Space 16.4%, Sci-fi 12%, Crafting 10.9%
- #40 Pacific Drive
69% matchVery Positive83% of 26,975 reviews2024
Dev: Ironwood StudiosPub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 20.2%, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 14%, Sandbox 12.3%, Sci-fi 10.9%
- #41 DESOLATE
73% matchMixed66% of 8,065 reviews2019
Dev: NeargaPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 43.3%, Open World 24.2%, First-Person 12.1%, Adventure 5%, Crafting 4.3%
- #42 StarRupture
68% 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 36.1% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 10.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 8.2%
- #43 Last Breath
69% 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 40.1% ★, Survival 14%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 7.7%, Space 6.5%
- #44 Space Haven
67% matchVery Positive86% of 11,153 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Space 20.4%, Base Building 19.4%, Survival 15%, Sandbox 14.8%, Sci-fi 9.4%
- #45 Beyond Contact
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,147 reviews2023
Dev: Playcorp StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 43.9% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11.8%, Space 9.1%, Crafting 8.5%
- #46 The Wild Eight
71% matchMixed68% of 8,131 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.1% ★, Survival 17.6%, Crafting 7.1%, Open World 6.3%, Sandbox 6.3%
- #47 GRAV
73% matchMixed47% of 6,922 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 41.5% ★, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Sandbox 8.5%, Space 8.4%
- #48 Spirit of the North
70% matchVery Positive84% of 6,638 reviews2020
Dev: Infuse StudioPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Atmospheric 33.9%, Exploration 23.5%, Adventure 18.8%, Singleplayer 13.1%, Indie 10.7%
- #49 Star Crafter
68% 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 34.8% ★, Space 12.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 8.5%, Survival 7.4%
- #50 Eden Crafters
66% 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 36.8% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Space 9.8%, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 8.4%
- #51 Heat Death: Survival Train
68% 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 41.7% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #52 Edge of Space
72% matchMostly Negative33% of 2,729 reviews2015
Dev: Handyman StudiosPub: Reverb Triple XP
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 48.3% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Space 10.3%, Crafting 6.7%, Survival 6.4%
- #53 Honeycomb: The World Beyond
66% 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 31.1% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Space 11.2%, Survival 9.3%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #54 Signs of Life
70% 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 45.4% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Survival 9.7%, Space 9.4%, Crafting 7.9%
- #55 XenoHaven
65% matchVery Positive82% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
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 30.3% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 11%, Survival 10.3%, Space 8.4%
- #56 The Invincible
64% matchVery Positive88% of 13,757 reviews2023
Dev: Starward IndustriesPub: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Rethink human’s dominion in The Invincible: a story-driven adventure set in a hard sci-fi world by Stanisław Lem. Discover planet Regis III as scientist Yasna, use atompunk tools looking for a missing crew and face unforeseen threats. Make choices in a philosophical story that’s driven by science.
Why similar: Space 36.8%, Sci-fi 22.1%, Aliens 12.3%, First-Person 11.2%, Adventure 7.9%