Games Like CleanFall

Lumencraft is a unique combination of a top-down, rogue-like shooter and base building with tower defense elements. Dig and light up dark halls of a fully destructible environment on procedurally generated maps and campaign levels to find precious Lumen - humanity's only chance for survival.

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.8%, Base Building 22.8%, Sandbox 22.1%, Exploration 11.5%, Strategy 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines top-down digging and exploration with intense tower-defense combat against subterranean horrors.

Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.4% ★, Sandbox 13%, Crafting 12.1%, Tower Defense 10.2%, Open World 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on underground survival and tower-defense mechanics where you must build defenses to survive nightly waves of enemies.

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 33.3% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 10.6%, Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features mobile base-building mechanics where you pilot a drillship to survive volcanic eruptions and hostile environments.

TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Building 16.9%, Sandbox 14.4%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for deep customization and engineering of mobile vehicles and bases to survive in a sandbox world.

'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Tower Defense 15.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a heavy focus on trap-based tower defense and base building to survive against massive zombie hordes.

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Tower Defense 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Open World 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential open-world survival game that centers on base fortification and defending against weekly horde attacks.

FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 11.7%, Building 11.2%, Base Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Blends voxel-based mining and exploration with complex tower-defense systems to protect your base.

Acid Planet is a caustic blend of horde-survival, tower-defense and strategy. Build, fight and evolve to survive against rampaging swarms of monsters and fearsome Kaiju.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.4%, Base Building 19.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Building 12.8%, Roguelite 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused tower-defense game that requires careful base-building and resource management to survive on a hostile world.

Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival sandbox set in an endless underground cavern that emphasizes exploration, crafting, and boss battles.

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.8% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 10%, Base Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game with tower-defense elements where you can recruit settlers and build defenses for your base.

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: Building 20.1%, Sandbox 16.6%, Crafting 16.5%, Open World 14.1%, Physics 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an advanced engineering sandbox where you can build complex mobile machines and defensive structures.

Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?

Why similar: Tower Defense 19.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Procedural Generation 11.1%, Roguelite 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Integrates automation and tower-defense mechanics, requiring players to build efficient production lines to support their defenses.

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 46.7% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 10.5%, Open World 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on a mobile base that you must expand and defend while surviving in a dangerous, post-apocalyptic ocean.

Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.4% ★, Crafting 20.5%, Open World 19.3%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a massive open-world sandbox that includes creature collection, automation, and survival crafting.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.3% ★, Open World 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply difficult survival sandbox that emphasizes realistic base fortification and long-term resource management.

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Building 11%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and building in a harsh, procedurally generated world with significant survival and combat challenges.

The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 10.3%, Open World 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival sandbox that focuses on building a secure base and defending it against wildlife and infected enemies.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Base Building 33%, Sandbox 18.9%, Crafting 18.2%, Building 10.6%, Open World 10%

Why You'll Like It: Requires building complex automated systems and defensive perimeters to survive against an encroaching alien ecosystem.

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 41.8% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 11.8%, Survival Horror 7%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy survival game that rewards building mobile and static bases to survive in a hostile underwater environment.

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 83.4% ★, Open World 4.2%, Crafting 4.1%, Sandbox 3%, Difficult 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival roguelike that requires constant resource gathering and base management to survive the elements.

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 22.5%, Open World Survival Craft 17.2% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Open World 12.8%, Building 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory-building game that emphasizes large-scale construction and exploration in a vast alien landscape.

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Base Building 26.3%, Open World 21.1%, Crafting 19.9%, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines top-down action combat with extensive base building and survival mechanics in a dark, atmospheric world.

Embark on an epic journey in Brinefall, where you'll gather resources and construct your own village while exploring a vast open-world filled with secrets and mysteries. Battle fierce enemies and collect valuable loot in this unique blend of sandbox and RPG gameplay.

Why similar: Base Building 21.4%, Crafting 18.6%, Sandbox 18.1%, Building 17.3%, Open World 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes base building, crafting, and hack-and-slash combat.

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 37.4% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Open World 12.7%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on planetary exploration and base building with a unique emphasis on modular, mobile crafting systems.

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 29.8%, Sandbox 17.1%, Procedural Generation 13.8%, Building 13.3%, Open World 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-management simulator that forces you to build and defend a base against constant, unpredictable threats.

Sun Down is a roguelike survivors-type game with a twist. Between upgrading your abilities during and between runs, you can craft turrets, collect battle-ready pets, and buy store upgrades to survive hordes of enemies through four changing seasons.

Why similar: Base Building 33.9%, Roguelite 21.8%, Building 21.8%, Crafting 17.3%, Action 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: An action-roguelike that incorporates base-building elements to help you survive against waves of enemies.

The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Crafting 18.7%, Open World 14.7%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival game where building secure bases and defending them from other players is the primary objective.

An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Open World 16.5%, Building 15.8%, Crafting 14.6%, Sandbox 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a brutal open-world survival experience with significant base-building and defensive siege mechanics.

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: Base Building 32.2%, Building 21.3%, Open World 17.2%, Sandbox 16.4%, Simulation 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on large-scale automation and exploration across multiple planets, requiring efficient resource management.

Primordialis is a physics-based roguelike fish builder. Unleash your creativity to defeat creatures using venomous tentacles, electrical shocks, or exploding children. The possibilities are endless. Explore the primordial depths to reveal its secrets and discover what lies beyond.

Why similar: Sandbox 13.7%, Physics 13.6%, Difficult 12.4%, Roguelike 12.4%, Roguelite 11.5%

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 24.3%, Crafting 20.1%, Building 19.7%, Sandbox 18.9%, Physics 17%

Why You'll Like It: A complex engineering-focused survival game that requires deep knowledge of systems to survive in space.

Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Survival Horror 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Building 9%

Cluckmech Oasis, a top-down shooting Roguelike tower defense game. Play as the Warcluck and lead your team of animal heroes in a fight for survival. Collect, build and upgrade defenses, and engage in intense battle against waves of plant enemies.

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.2%, Roguelike 17.9%, Building 17.5%, Roguelite 14.9%, Strategy 9.1%

Craft in Abyss is a tower defense rogue-lite game. It allow players to design their own mechanical fortress, gather resources and continuously strengthen the fortress facilities within a sci-fi world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 20.8%, Crafting 15.1%, Building 12.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Roguelite 11.4%

Outpost brings the perfect mix between survival and roguelite gameplay. Start the game in a randomly generated environment and try to adapt, and make it through as many nights as possible. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Tower Defense 18.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Procedural Generation 10.6%, Building 10%, Roguelike 9.5%

A roguelike tower defense where you control a single tower to fight against hordes of aliens coming from all directions. Pick your tower, equip up to 4 skills, and choose from a variety of traits and unique effect items to craft powerful builds that lead you to victory.

Why similar: Tower Defense 44.7%, Roguelite 23.3%, Roguelike 16.4%, Strategy 10.7%, Action 4.8%

A highly addictive survival crafting tower defense game! Gather, craft, build turrets, shoot guns, and expand the land to defend against waves of enemies in World Crafter TD!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Tower Defense 18.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 8.3%

A highly addictive survival crafting tower defense game! Gather, craft, build turrets, shoot guns, and expand the land to defend against waves of enemies! The prologue for the full game, World Crafter TD!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Tower Defense 19.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 12.9%, Open World 8.4%

Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 13.3%, Open World 11.5%

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Base Building 24.2%, Building 20.4%, Sandbox 19.8%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 8.2%

Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 11.1%

Adventure Craft is a challenging procedurally generated sandbox RPG with roguelike elements. Hunt monsters, horde loot, and craft weapons and armor, to survive in a vast ever-changing RPG world full of action, extreme danger and wonderful surprises.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 11%

Brave a savage and unforgiving procedurally-generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark are your greatest enemies. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to transform a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 9.5%

Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Base Building 12%, Procedural Generation 10.4%, Sandbox 9.9%

Fight to survive against zombies in a pixel-art post-apocalyptic city. Loot and merge items, expand your backpack. In your camp, recruit survivors but burn the bitten. Trading uncovers haunting survivor stories.

Why similar: Base Building 24.4%, Post-apocalyptic 22%, Roguelike 15.4%, Open World 14.8%, Roguelite 12%

Reignfall is a real-time strategy game with elements of city-building and third-person action. Build a city and defend your keep against waves of increasingly difficult enemies. Can you survive against the fallen horde?

Why similar: Difficult 38.9%, Strategy 37%, Action 24.1%

Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!

Why similar: Tower Defense 18.2%, Base Building 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 11.1%

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 31.6% ★, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 9.9%, Building 9.6%, Base Building 9.6%

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 27.7% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 11.1%

Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.

Why similar: Sandbox 18.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 14.4%, Building 12.8%

Fallen Region is a third-person survival sandbox game in an open, post-apocalyptic world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.3% ★, Building 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 9.8%

Everwarder is a refreshing take on the tower defense genre, blending roguelite mechanics with a time-based survival concept. Fight against the encroaching darkness and fend off emerging enemies. Collect artifacts, buy upgrades, discover ancient structures, unlock new units and more!

Why similar: Tower Defense 25.3%, Building 15.5%, Procedural Generation 15.3%, Roguelite 13.3%, Difficult 12%

Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

Why similar: Difficult 18.3%, Physics 16.1%, Roguelike 15.6%, Sandbox 14.2%, Open World 12.4%

Hotfix is a chromosome enriched solo indie game inspired by Minecraft and Enter the Gungeon. Create your own - near infinite - world full of randomly generated structures filled with guns and loot. Explore, build, and gather resources during the day and avoid robotic "dogs" powering up at night.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Building 9.4%

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: Tower Defense 24%, Base Building 19.3%, Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, Building 15.6%, Difficult 15.1%

Defend your Chrysalis from growing hordes of monsters in this hybrid game that combines elements of tower defense, survival, and roguelike RPGs. Explore procedurally generated levels, possess and control animals, and grow deadly gardens. How far can you get before the next wave of monsters?

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.7%, Procedural Generation 20.6%, Base Building 19.7%, Roguelike 18.1%, Strategy 7.8%

⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Survival Horror 11.8%, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 11.8%

Gnomes is a turn-based tower defense with deep roguelike progression, set in ever-expanding, procedurally generated biomes. Build, farm and defend your village as you push deeper into goblin-infested territory. Unlock powerful upgrades and craft your environment to survive the endless goblin horde

Why similar: Tower Defense 27.5%, Procedural Generation 16.8%, Base Building 15.4%, Roguelike 13.8%, Difficult 11.7%

Survive in a harsh and dangerous world after an alien invasion. Gather resources, craft equipment, fight mutants and massive monsters, use weapons, vehicles and robots, explore territories, defend strongholds and fight for survival.

Why similar: Crafting 37.1%, Sandbox 36.7%, Exploration 17.3%, Action 8.9%

Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 14.3%, Building 12.5%, Open World 11.4%