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: Dwarf 39.4% ★, Colony Sim 20.7% ★, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9.4%, City Builder 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive deep-simulation dwarf colony builder that inspired the entire genre.

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: Offers unparalleled colony management depth and storytelling through complex character interactions and survival challenges.

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 21.8%, Sandbox 21.4%, Building 17.9%, Survival 13%, Open World 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down 2D colony survival game that emphasizes base building, resource gathering, and combat progression.

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 41.9% ★, Crafting 19.8%, Building 19.1%, Resource Management 5.8%, Strategy 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A dwarf-focused mining and management game that mirrors the vertical exploration and crafting of the seed game.

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 11.3%, Crafting 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony sim that emphasizes building and managing a settlement in a charming, stylized world.

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 16.6%, Building 11.8%, Open World 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on 2D base defense and survival against increasingly difficult waves of enemies.

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 35.1% ★, Sandbox 15.6%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.8%, City Builder 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic sandbox colony management game where you guide a group of gnomes to build a thriving underground kingdom.

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 13.5%, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 8.2%, Tower Defense 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines traditional colony management with intense tower defense mechanics to protect your village from nightly threats.

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 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features complex resource management and colony simulation within a challenging, physics-driven environment.

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

Why similar: Sandbox 27.1%, Crafting 20.5%, Building 18.6%, Survival 14%, Open World 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the foundational 2D sandbox experience with extensive crafting, exploration, and boss-progression mechanics.

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 33.5% ★, Building 17.6%, Sandbox 11%, City Builder 9.4%, Survival 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A unique 2D colony management game that incorporates complex economic systems and city-building mechanics.

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%, Crafting 8.4%

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

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: Dwarf 38.5% ★, Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Crafting 8.7%, Building 8.5%, Sandbox 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A dwarf-themed colony simulator that focuses on management, survival, and building within a mountain environment.

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 16.3%, Sandbox 15.8%, City Builder 11%, Survival 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D colony builder that focuses on vertical construction and managing a settlement through changing seasons.

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 42.1% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Strategy 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that emphasizes defensive construction and managing resources to survive external threats.

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 20.9%, Building 16.1%, Survival 13%, Open World 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Expands the 2D sandbox experience to a galactic scale with deep crafting and exploration across multiple planets.

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 32.5% ★, Crafting 17.9%, Building 16.2%, Sandbox 15.5%, Open World 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony simulation set in the Scottish Highlands that emphasizes harsh environmental management.

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 31.5%, Crafting 28.8%, Sandbox 21.8%, Open World 7.6%, Multiplayer 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game that emphasizes crafting, exploration, and managing hunger in a hostile world.

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% ★, Sandbox 30%, City Builder 12.5%, God Game 9.8% ★, Simulation 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A dungeon-management game that captures the dark, underground building feel of classic strategy titles.

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 21.4%, Building 12.6%, Survival 9.4%, Resource Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for automation and base-building, focusing on optimizing complex production chains.

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 21.2%, Sandbox 21.1%, Survival 11%, Open World 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A massive automation and base-building game that emphasizes large-scale resource logistics and defense.

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 45.6% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Survival 10.2%, Building 8.6%, Sandbox 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-building game that forces you to manage resources and survival in the harsh environment of a space outpost.

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 33.8% ★, Crafting 17.6%, Building 15%, Sandbox 14.1%, Survival 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony survival game that features extensive crafting, base building, and technology progression.

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 39.3% ★, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-building game set in a post-apocalyptic world where you must manage survivors and defend against demons.

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 20.5%, Survival 16.2%, City Builder 15.8%, Open World 14.3%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D crafting and progression game that starts with primitive tools and advances to high-tech space travel.

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%, City Builder 21.6%, Crafting 17.2%, Building 10%, Survival 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: An indie sandbox simulation that tasks you with building a town and managing the needs of your inhabitants.

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 14.6%, Sandbox 14.3%, Simulation 5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on colony management through the lens of automation and programming your workers to handle repetitive tasks.

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 15.8%, City Builder 12.1%, Survival 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A colony management game with RPG elements that allows you to rule your kingdom and interact directly with your subjects.

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 47.8% ★, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A deep colony management game that focuses on building and survival in a procedurally generated world.

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: Dwarf 62.7% ★, Building 10.6%, City Builder 9%, Crafting 7.8%, Strategy 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused game centered on digging, building, and managing a dwarven settlement in a fantasy setting.

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 39.2% ★, Building 18.2%, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 7.2%, Survival 6.2%

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

Why similar: Crafting 27.4%, Sandbox 17.7%, Building 16.5%, Survival 15.6%, Open World 10%

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 25.2%, Crafting 23.8%, Building 23.3%, Survival 12.8%, Multiplayer 7%

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: Dwarf 70.5% ★, Colony Sim 8.3% ★, Building 4.4%, Sandbox 4.1%, Crafting 3.7%

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 10.8%, God Game 8.1% ★

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%

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 15.3%, Building 10.1%, Survival 6.7%, Resource Management 4.4%

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 38.8% ★, Crafting 15.2%, Survival 9.8%, City Builder 8.7%, Sandbox 7.7%

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 23.3%, Sandbox 19.6%, Building 19.2%, Survival 14.1%, Open World 13%

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: Dwarf 59% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Strategy 10.8%, RPG 7.1%, Tower Defense 3.6%

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 48.3%, Strategy 25%, Survival 5.5%, Simulation 5%, Sandbox 4.4%

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 45.7% ★, Building 13%, Sandbox 10.1%, City Builder 9.8%, Survival 6.6%

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% ★, Crafting 16.7%, Building 16.6%, City Builder 11.3%, Sandbox 8.3%

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%, Sandbox 22.6%, Survival 22.1%, Crafting 19.3%, Strategy 9.1%

Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!

Why similar: Sandbox 24.3%, Building 23.5%, Survival 14.9%, Open World 12.6%, Crafting 10.5%

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 16.1%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, RPG 9.2%

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: Dwarf 66% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Building 12.8%, Simulation 2.7%, Resource Management 2.1%

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 27.9% ★, Building 18.8%, Survival 10.6%, City Builder 9.2%, Strategy 7.8%

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 30.9% ★, Crafting 18%, Sandbox 16.5%, Building 11.6%, City Builder 10.6%

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: Dwarf 80.5% ★, Building 8.3%, Sandbox 7.4%, Strategy 2.3%, Indie 0.7%

Progress with every slain monster, learn over 80 skills through talents, craft hundreds of items, and explore vast procedurally-generated worlds in this ever-expanding sandbox RPG!

Why similar: Sandbox 29%, Crafting 26.1%, Building 13.3%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 6.4%

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

Why similar: Building 24.9%, Sandbox 23.2%, Resource Management 12.8%, Tower Defense 12.4%, Strategy 9.5%

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 34.1% ★, Sandbox 30.1%, Strategy 15%, Simulation 6.4%, Resource Management 4.6%

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%

A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?

Why similar: Crafting 34.8%, Sandbox 21.7%, Survival 19.4%, Open World 12.3%, Multiplayer 6.7%

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%, Sandbox 14%, Strategy 6.3%, God Game 5.2% ★

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Crafting 22%, Building 20.9%, Sandbox 19.4%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 10.3%

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 41.6% ★, Crafting 13%, Building 12.2%, Survival 11.2%, City Builder 8.6%

Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night! A new minimalism sandbox survival with countless new ideas – Craft Hero

Why similar: Crafting 26%, Sandbox 22.3%, Building 22%, Survival 14.1%, Strategy 5.5%