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 41.4% ★, Colony Sim 20%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 9.1%, City Builder 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: As the spiritual ancestor of the genre, it offers the deepest simulation of dwarf society and fortress management available.

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 31.6%, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 12.8%, Building 12.7%, Survival 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This 2D pixel-art colony sim captures the exact side-scrolling management and building feel of Craft The World.

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 43.5%, Sandbox 13.4%, Survival 10.9%, Building 10.8%, City Builder 7%

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

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 15.6%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.8%, City Builder 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic colony-building game where you manage a group of gnomes to build a thriving, defensible fortress.

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 13.6%, Sandbox 12.3%, City Builder 11.4%, Crafting 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This voxel-based colony sim focuses on building, town management, and defending your citizens from various threats.

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 42.2%, Crafting 19.9%, Building 19.1%, Resource Management 5.4%, Strategy 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A vertical-focused dwarf colony sim that emphasizes mining, crafting, and managing a subterranean kingdom.

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 34%, Building 17.6%, Sandbox 11%, City Builder 9.5%, Survival 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling colony sim that blends city-building with economic management and survival elements.

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 23.6%, Survival 16.6%, Building 11.7%, Open World 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This 2D side-scrolling game emphasizes survival and tower defense against waves of enemies, much like the combat segments of Craft The World.

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 49.4%, Building 13.9%, Survival 12.5%, Sandbox 9.4%, Resource Management 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A highly complex colony management game that challenges you to survive in a hostile environment through intricate resource 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 21.7%, Sandbox 21.4%, Building 17.9%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down 2D sandbox game that combines colony management with RPG-like exploration and boss battles.

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 44.7%, City Builder 13.5%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 8.2%, Tower Defense 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A unique mix of god-game, city-builder, and tower defense that requires constant vigilance to keep your colony alive.

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 16.7%, Sandbox 15.5%, City Builder 11.1%, Survival 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D colony sim that allows for detailed base building and management of your settlers in a medieval 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 39.5%, Building 18.2%, Sandbox 14.2%, Crafting 7.1%, Survival 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based strategy game where you command units to build fortifications and defend against hostile creatures.

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 38.7%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person colony management game where you build and defend a massive settlement from nightly zombie raids.

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 79.9% ★, Colony Sim 5.7%, Building 3%, Sandbox 2.8%, Crafting 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: A dwarf-themed simulation game that tasks you with building a fortress and managing your population's needs.

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% ★, Colony Sim 19.8%, Crafting 8.5%, Building 8.3%, Sandbox 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation-heavy dwarf colony game that focuses on the challenges of mountain living and resource scarcity.

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 33.4%, Crafting 17.6%, Building 16.2%, Sandbox 15.3%, Open World 8%

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

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 12.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, City Builder 9.9%, Survival 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A friendly colony-building game that emphasizes the individual personalities and needs of your settlers.

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 22.3%, Sandbox 21.7%, Building 12.7%, Survival 9.5%, Resource Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on automation, it shares the core loop of resource gathering, base expansion, and defense against hostile wildlife.

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 76.7% ★, Building 6.6%, City Builder 5.7%, Crafting 4.9%, Strategy 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused game where you dig into the earth to build a dwarf kingdom while managing resources and threats.

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 7.7%, Multiplayer 4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game with a unique aesthetic that captures the tension of exploring a dangerous, resource-scarce 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 35%, Sandbox 29.3%, City Builder 12.7%, God Game 9.8% ★, Simulation 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A dungeon management game that allows you to build a base and command minions to defeat heroes, echoing the 'Dungeon Keeper' inspiration of the seed game.

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 22.7%, Survival 22.1%, Crafting 19.3%, Strategy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based survival colony sim that focuses on building and managing a medieval settlement.

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 30.9%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 12%, City Builder 11.8%, Sandbox 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that incorporates base defense and resource management, perfect for those who enjoy the building aspects of colony sims.

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 21.2%, Survival 11%, Open World 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A massive voxel-based game that blends automation, tower defense, and base building on an alien planet.

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%, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival colony sim that tasks you with building a base and managing survivors in a post-apocalyptic world.

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 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A resource-management colony sim set on alien planets that requires careful planning to ensure your settlers' survival.

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 23.8%, Building 23.3%, Survival 12.8%, Multiplayer 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based sandbox game that combines building with RPG exploration and combat in a colorful world.

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 26.3%, City Builder 21.9%, Crafting 17.1%, Building 10%, Survival 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic management game that focuses on building a town and keeping your inhabitants happy and safe.

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 11.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 7%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-building game that offers deep simulation and management of your settlers in a procedurally generated world.

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

Why similar: Crafting 27.3%, Sandbox 17.8%, Building 16.5%, Survival 15.6%, Open World 10.1%

Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.

Why similar: Dwarves 59.4% ★, Colony Sim 12.4%, Building 8.3%, Crafting 8.2%, Resource Management 4.8%

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 44.6%, City Builder 15.5%, Building 10.1%, Survival 6.8%, Crafting 4.3%

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 14.9%, Sandbox 14.1%, Survival 9.5%

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 26.2%, Building 13.3%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 6.4%

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 19.7%, Building 19.1%, Survival 14%, 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 67.5% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Building 12.4%, Simulation 2.5%, Resource Management 1.9%

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 35%, Crafting 16.7%, Building 16.6%, City Builder 11.4%, Sandbox 8.3%

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 31.1%, Crafting 18%, Sandbox 16.6%, Building 11.6%, City Builder 10.7%

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 33.7%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 13.8%, City Builder 11%, God Game 8.2% ★

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 81.7% ★, Building 7.8%, Sandbox 7%, Strategy 2.1%, Indie 0.7%

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 47.8%, City Builder 16.7%, Survival 9.2%, Sandbox 9%, Building 4.7%

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 33.6%, 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 32.6%, Strategy 25.9%, RPG 17.6%, Tower Defense 8.8%, Indie 7.2%

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 28.6%, Crafting 20.8%, Building 16%, Survival 13%, Open World 9.7%

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 24.5%, Building 23.3%, Survival 15%, Open World 12.8%, Crafting 10.5%

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 23.1%, Sandbox 19.2%, Building 18.4%, Survival 13.7%, Open World 12%

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 44%, City Builder 17.2%, Sandbox 14%, Strategy 6.2%, God Game 5.3% ★

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 41.8%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 12.2%, Survival 11.2%, City Builder 8.6%

Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Why similar: Survival 34.3%, Building 18%, Crafting 16.6%, Strategy 7.2%, Open World 6.9%

Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.

Why similar: Crafting 40.5%, Sandbox 23.5%, Building 19.2%, RPG 5.8%, Simulation 4.5%

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 29.1%, Building 24.2%, Survival 15.6%, Tower Defense 7.7%, Strategy 7.5%

Crafting Town Is : A Crafting game with Simulation&Building where you can Craft and Develop your Village, Source Management and Quests.

Why similar: Crafting 39.5%, Building 20.8%, Colony Sim 16.5%, Resource Management 9.1%, Simulation 5.6%

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 26.1%, Sandbox 22.5%, Building 21.9%, Survival 14.2%, Strategy 5.3%

A dwarfish colony sim set in a fantasy world. Inspired by Rimworld and Banished. Dig deep to uncover riches and challenges, recruit dwarves to produce goods, and trade with other settlements (or raid them) to help your colony succeed.

Why similar: Dwarves 94.7% ★, Simulation 3.6%, Indie 1.7%

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 48.6%, Strategy 24.8%, Survival 5.5%, Simulation 4.9%, Sandbox 4.5%

Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.1%, Building 19.5%, Sandbox 17.2%, City Builder 10.4%, Strategy 4.5%

Would you enjoy building CASTLES, traps and siege machines in MULTIPLAYER? And then undermine your opponents castle and collapse it with 2D PHYSICS & DESTRUCTION?

Why similar: Building 36.1%, Sandbox 29.1%, Multiplayer 22.2%, Strategy 4.9%, 2D 4.3%

Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Building 16.6%, Sandbox 12.3%, City Builder 11.3%, Crafting 10%

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Building 15.6%, Sandbox 14.4%, City Builder 10.4%, Survival 8.7%