Games Like Craft The World

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: Dwarves 41.8% ★, Colony Sim 19.8%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 9%, City Builder 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: The spiritual ancestor of the genre, providing the most intricate dwarven colony simulation available.

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: Colony Sim 43.3%, Sandbox 13.3%, Survival 11%, Building 10.9%, City Builder 7%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony management, offering deep simulation and emergent storytelling that rivals the complexity of Craft The World.

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 12.2%, City Builder 11.4%, Crafting 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features voxel-based colony building with a cozy aesthetic and a focus on managing individual dwarf-like settlers.

Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42%, Crafting 19.8%, Building 19.1%, Resource Management 5.7%, Strategy 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated dwarven mining and colony management game that focuses heavily on underground base building and automation.

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: Colony Sim 49.2%, Building 13.9%, Survival 12.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Resource Management 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep resource management and complex colony survival mechanics within a challenging, confined environment.

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, Sandbox 15.5%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.8%, City Builder 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic colony simulation game where you manage a group of gnomes in a procedurally generated world.

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Sandbox 27.1%, Crafting 20.4%, Building 18.6%, Survival 14%, Open World 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the essential 2D sandbox mining, crafting, and exploration loop that serves as the foundation for Craft The World.

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: Crafting 21.7%, Sandbox 21.5%, Building 17.8%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down 2D colony sim that blends survival, crafting, and base building with a strong emphasis on progression.

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: Sandbox 23.7%, Crafting 23.5%, Survival 16.7%, Building 11.8%, Open World 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D side-scrolling survival game that emphasizes base defense against waves of enemies, much like the combat in Craft The World.

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Why similar: Colony Sim 44.5%, City Builder 13.6%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 8.2%, Tower Defense 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines village management with tower defense mechanics, requiring constant vigilance to protect your settlers.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, Crafting 16.2%, Sandbox 15.8%, City Builder 11.1%, Survival 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A colony management game with a focus on building and defense that captures the satisfaction of constructing a fortified base.

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.6%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person colony builder that tasks you with managing a large population and defending your base from nightly monster attacks.

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: Sandbox 28.5%, Crafting 20.8%, Building 16.1%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Expands the 2D sandbox experience to a galactic scale with extensive crafting, building, and exploration.

Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.3%, Building 18.2%, Sandbox 14.2%, Crafting 7.1%, Survival 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based building and strategy game that focuses on defending your structures with automated units.

A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.8%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 10%, City Builder 9.9%, Survival 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A colony building game that balances resource management with the needs and happiness of your settlers.

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, City Builder 13.5%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 8%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that focuses on defense and resource management, perfect for those who enjoy the fortification aspect of the seed game.

As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?

Why similar: Building 26.4%, Sandbox 20.4%, Survival 16.2%, City Builder 15.9%, Open World 14.3%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival crafting game with a progression loop that feels very similar to the tech-tree advancement in Craft The World.

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.2%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony management game set in a hostile, post-apocalyptic world.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, Crafting 17.9%, Building 16.5%, Sandbox 15.5%, Open World 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony simulation set in the Scottish Highlands that emphasizes resource management and family growth.

Gather resources, craft weapons, and build a castle. Then defend your castle against monsters who will try to siege, sap, and smash their way in. All in a procedurally generated 3D block world that allows for extensive crafting and total construction and destruction of the terrain.

Why similar: Dwarves 80.1% ★, Colony Sim 5.6%, Building 3%, Sandbox 2.7%, Crafting 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: A dwarf-themed colony building game that emphasizes strategic planning and defensive construction.

In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.6%, Crafting 17.9%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 14.2%, Simulation 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the automation aspect of colony management, allowing you to program workers to perform repetitive tasks.

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, Building 14.7%, Sandbox 13.8%, City Builder 10.9%, God Game 8.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: Offers god-game elements that mirror the top-down management style and progression of Craft The World.

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: Crafting 23.4%, Building 21.3%, Sandbox 21.1%, Survival 11%, Open World 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features a heavy focus on automation and large-scale base building in a 3D environment.

Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.8%, Sandbox 17%, Building 15.7%, City Builder 12.2%, Survival 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A fantasy colony sim that combines deep management with character interaction and strategic decision-making.

Timber and Stone is a procedural city building game set in a medieval fantasy world. With over one-hundred resources to gather and craft, Timber and Stone has the feel of a real time strategy game, but with much more depth and complexity.

Why similar: City Builder 24.1%, Sandbox 22.6%, Survival 22.1%, Crafting 19.2%, Strategy 9%

Why You'll Like It: A block-based colony management game that emphasizes survival and building in a fantasy setting.

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3%, Building 15.1%, Sandbox 14.5%, City Builder 11.5%, Survival 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A large-scale colony simulation that handles massive populations and complex management systems with ease.

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Why similar: Survival 31.6%, Crafting 28.7%, Sandbox 21.8%, Open World 7.7%, Multiplayer 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival and crafting game with a unique art style and a challenging management loop that rewards careful planning.

A Dwarven Prince on a quest to reclaim his people’s stolen land will take you on a great journey. Explore a continent filled with buried treasures and unearth mysteries that have laid hidden since the Great War.

Why similar: Dwarves 76.9% ★, Building 6.5%, City Builder 5.6%, Crafting 4.8%, Strategy 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Directly shares the dwarven theme and underground building mechanics, focusing on excavation and base layout.

Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 47.4%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 7%

Why You'll Like It: A deep colony simulation that provides extensive tools for building and managing a settlement in a complex world.

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: Crafting 22.1%, Sandbox 21.5%, Building 12.6%, Survival 9.5%, Resource Management 8.8%

Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!

Why similar: Dwarves 40.5% ★, Colony Sim 19.5%, Crafting 8.3%, Building 8.2%, Sandbox 6.7%

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, Building 17.6%, Sandbox 11%, City Builder 9.5%, Survival 9.4%

Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

Why similar: Crafting 27.2%, Sandbox 17.7%, Building 16.6%, Survival 15.6%, Open World 10.1%

War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, Sandbox 29.2%, City Builder 12.7%, God Game 9.8% ★, Simulation 5.2%

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: Colony Sim 44.5%, City Builder 15.4%, Building 10.1%, Survival 6.7%, Crafting 4.3%

The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?

Why similar: Sandbox 26.1%, City Builder 21.8%, Crafting 17%, Building 10%, Survival 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: An early colony simulation that shares the management and building focus, tasking you with keeping your citizens alive.

Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 12.7%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 8.1%

The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!

Why similar: Sandbox 25.3%, Crafting 23.7%, Building 23.3%, Survival 12.8%, Multiplayer 7%

CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Crafting 17.5%, Building 15%, Sandbox 14.1%, Survival 9.5%

Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!

Why similar: Crafting 23.2%, Sandbox 19.6%, Building 19.2%, Survival 14.1%, Open World 13.1%

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, Crafting 17.9%, Sandbox 16.5%, Building 11.6%, City Builder 10.6%

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: Colony Sim 45.7%, City Builder 14.3%, Survival 10.2%, Building 8.6%, Sandbox 5.2%

Creeper World 3 is what happens when cellular automata takes over a strategy simulation. Instead of discrete units that attack your base, a fluid-like substance spreads over the terraformable terrain. Your base, your weapons, your strategy... you must adapt them all.

Why similar: Tower Defense 48.5%, Strategy 24.9%, Survival 5.5%, Simulation 4.9%, Sandbox 4.5%

Blacksmith: Ignite the Forge is a mix of a simulator, strategy, and auto-battler. Become a master smith, craft various weapons, and enhance them with magical runes. Equip a team of adventurers with your hand-made tools, send them on missions, gather loot to upgrade your forge, and save the land!

Why similar: Dwarves 67.8% ★, Crafting 13%, Building 12.2%, Simulation 2.5%, Resource Management 2%

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, Building 16.7%, Crafting 16.6%, City Builder 11.4%, Sandbox 8.3%

Dwarf Tower is a turn-based tactics game of tower building and spellcasting. Each turn you develop your tower by placing blocks, constructing rooms, and play various spells. Your tower can have Libraries (store spells), Crystals (generate mana), Dwarf Dwellings (give you dwarves to repair the tower) and some other rooms.

Why similar: Dwarves 82% ★, Building 7.7%, Sandbox 6.9%, Strategy 2.1%, Indie 0.7%

Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.

Why similar: Crafting 22.9%, Sandbox 19.2%, Building 18.5%, Survival 13.7%, Open World 11.9%

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Building 25.1%, Sandbox 23.2%, Resource Management 12.5%, Tower Defense 12.4%, Strategy 9.5%

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: Colony Sim 47.7%, City Builder 16.7%, Survival 9.2%, Sandbox 9%, Strategy 4.8%

Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4%, Building 15.3%, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 9.6%, City Builder 6.6%

An amazing mix of RPG, strategy, simulation, sandbox and survival game. Aurora Dusk looks like many other games, but instead of being alone, you live in a community. You can play one or more villagers and evolve from the Wood Age to the Steam Age.

Why similar: Sandbox 32.3%, Strategy 26.2%, RPG 17.5%, Tower Defense 8.8%, Indie 7.2%

Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.7%, Crafting 13%, Building 12.2%, Survival 11.2%, City Builder 8.6%

Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Building 18.9%, Survival 10.6%, City Builder 9.3%, Strategy 7.7%

Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.8%, City Builder 17.1%, Sandbox 13.9%, Strategy 6.2%, God Game 5.3% ★

The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.

Why similar: Crafting 21.1%, Building 20.1%, Sandbox 19.9%, Survival 14.1%, Tower Defense 7.4%

Explore, craft, and survive in this Multiplayer RPG Platformer with permanent death! Featuring many Rogue-like elements, Magicite randomly generates each underground dungeon for you and your friends to delve deep into.

Why similar: Crafting 40.3%, Survival 16.2%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, RPG 9.2%

In Reus, you control powerful giants to shape the planet to your will. You can create mountains, oceans, forests and more. Enrich your planet with plants, minerals and animal life. There is only one thing on the planet that you do not control: mankind, with all their virtues and and all their vices.

Why similar: God Game 34.4% ★, Sandbox 30.2%, Strategy 14.9%, Simulation 6.3%, Resource Management 4.5%

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: Survival 23%, Building 22.2%, Sandbox 19.9%, Open World 13.8%, Multiplayer 6.9%