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 41.7% ★, Colony Sim 19.9%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 9%, City Builder 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive deep-simulation colony builder that serves as the primary inspiration for the genre's complexity and dwarf-themed management.

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 voxel-based colony sim that shares the same management style and focus on building a thriving underground civilization.

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 19.2%, Resource Management 5.6%, Strategy 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling dwarf colony sim that mirrors the vertical mining and base-building mechanics 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 36.7%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 12.2%, City Builder 11.4%, Crafting 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features voxel-based building and colony management that feels like a 3D evolution of the seed game's construction loop.

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 13.4%, Survival 11%, Building 10.8%, City Builder 7%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony management, offering deep emergent storytelling and complex survival systems.

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 21.6%, Sandbox 21.4%, Building 17.9%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines top-down sandbox exploration with colony management and base defense in a way that feels very familiar to fans of the genre.

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 23.6%, 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 building defenses against nightly waves of enemies.

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 9.3%, Resource Management 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep, complex management experience focused on base-building and resource survival in a hostile environment.

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 14%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person colony builder that focuses on managing a growing population and defending against monster sieges.

Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 12.7%, Survival 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony sim that captures the management of multiple units in a procedurally generated world.

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 33.7%, Building 17.6%, Sandbox 11%, City Builder 9.5%, Survival 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling colony sim that adds a layer of economic management to the traditional base-building and survival formula.

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 9.7%, Sandbox 8.2%, Tower Defense 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Blends colony simulation with tower defense mechanics, perfect for those who enjoy the defensive aspect of the seed game.

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 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential 2D sandbox game that defined the side-scrolling exploration and crafting loop found in the seed game.

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 76.8% ★, Building 6.6%, City Builder 5.6%, Crafting 4.8%, Strategy 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused game centered on managing dwarves in an underground setting, directly echoing the seed game's theme.

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 23.3%, Building 21.3%, Sandbox 21.1%, Survival 11%, Open World 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A massive sandbox game that leans heavily into automation and complex base-building mechanics.

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 44.4%, City Builder 15.5%, Building 10.1%, Survival 6.8%, Crafting 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval-themed city builder that requires careful resource management and survival planning.

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 13%, Sandbox 10%, City Builder 9.9%, Survival 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A friendly colony builder that focuses on building a settlement and managing the needs of your citizens.

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 39.4%, Building 18.3%, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 7.1%, Survival 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based strategy game where you manage units to build structures and defend against attacks.

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 11.2%, Survival 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A deep colony builder that excels in vertical base construction and complex management systems.

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 34.8%, Building 16.7%, Crafting 16.6%, City Builder 11.4%, Sandbox 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automation and base building, providing a satisfying sense of progression and logistical management.

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1%, Building 19.3%, City Builder 13.5%, Survival 10.1%, Tower Defense 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling management game that focuses on building a kingdom and defending it from nightly threats.

Regions of Ruin is a 2D pixel side-scrolling RPG with town-building, where you explore, fight and build into an open world that progressively challenges you and your settlement, and threatens the extinction of the dwarven race.

Why similar: Dwarves 69.9% ★, Building 15%, Resource Management 4.7%, RPG 3.6%, Fantasy 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D side-scrolling RPG and colony builder that features dwarf-focused exploration and base management.

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 47.3%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 7%

Why You'll Like It: A complex colony simulation that allows for intricate base construction and unit management.

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37%, Building 27.3%, City Builder 14.7%, Survival 10.2%, Resource Management 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A detailed city builder that emphasizes the struggle for survival and the complexity of managing a growing population.

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 32.7%, Crafting 17.8%, Building 16.4%, Sandbox 15.4%, Open World 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival colony sim that emphasizes deep management and adapting to harsh environmental conditions.

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 colony sim that adds fantasy elements and direct character control to the management experience.

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 38.9%, Crafting 17.8%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 14.2%, Simulation 4.9%

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

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 81.9% ★, Building 7.8%, Sandbox 6.9%, Strategy 2.1%, Indie 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused title that centers on building and managing a dwarf fortress in a sandbox environment.

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 voxel-based strategy game that combines survival elements with building and resource management.

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 pioneer of the colony-sim genre that focuses on managing a town of adventurers in a sandbox 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 8.7%

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 40.3% ★, Colony Sim 19.6%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 8.3%, Sandbox 6.7%

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%

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% ★, Colony Sim 5.6%, Building 3%, Sandbox 2.8%, Crafting 2.5%

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 34.8%, Sandbox 29.2%, City Builder 12.7%, God Game 9.9% ★, Simulation 5.1%

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 25.2%, Crafting 23.7%, Building 23.4%, Survival 12.8%, Multiplayer 6.9%

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 17.5%, Building 15%, Sandbox 14.1%, Survival 9.5%

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 4%

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 39.1%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 8.4%

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 10.7%

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 12%

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

Why similar: Building 28%, Sandbox 25.3%, Tower Defense 13.1%, Resource Management 13.1%, Strategy 10%

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 13.2%

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: Dwarves 67.6% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Building 12.3%, Simulation 2.5%, Resource Management 2%

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 14.3%, Survival 10.2%, Building 8.6%, Sandbox 5.3%

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%

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 24.2%, Building 23.5%, Survival 15%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 10.5%

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 17.2%, Sandbox 14%, Strategy 6.2%, God Game 5.3% ★

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 26.1%, RPG 17.5%, Tower Defense 8.8%, Indie 7.2%

Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

Why similar: Sandbox 21.5%, Crafting 19.6%, Building 17.7%, Survival 13.6%, Open World 11.3%

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 12.3%, Survival 11.2%, City Builder 8.6%

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 48.5%, Strategy 24.9%, Survival 5.5%, Simulation 4.9%, Sandbox 4.5%

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 29.1%, Crafting 26.1%, Building 13.3%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 6.4%

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 34.7% ★, Sandbox 30.2%, Strategy 15%, Simulation 6.3%, Resource Management 4.5%

The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Why similar: Crafting 29.7%, Survival 17.9%, Sandbox 16.6%, Building 13.4%, Open World 5.8%

Dive into an epic adventure alone or with friends! Explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame fearsome monsters, build and defend your village. Craft powerful weapons, master magical spells, and transform an planet into the cradle of a new civilization!

Why similar: Sandbox 25.3%, Crafting 24.6%, Building 20.5%, Open World 12.9%, Multiplayer 5.9%

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 30.8%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 12%, City Builder 11.7%, Sandbox 11.1%

Your avatar is a brave warrior who has fallen in battle. But instead of well-deserved peace in Asgard, his soul is trapped in the harsh world of Niffelheim. Survive in this hostile world, ransack the neighbor lands, explore dangerous dungeons and find your way to Valhalla

Why similar: Crafting 27.3%, Sandbox 23.1%, Survival 14.2%, Open World 11%, Resource Management 6.2%

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: Crafting 28.9%, Building 24.2%, Survival 15.6%, Tower Defense 7.8%, Strategy 7.6%