Games Like Crashlands

Slap your way across a vibrant world where interstellar friendships are the key to your survival. Befriend eccentric aliens, craft bizarre weaponry, and stick it to the man in this sequel to the award-winning open world crafting RPG Crashlands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.6%, Survival 8.5%, Base Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: As the direct sequel, it refines the signature top-down combat, crafting, and exploration loop that made the original a standout title.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Base Building 11%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 9.8%, Survival 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival game features a similar focus on boss progression, base-building, and resource gathering in a mysterious, expansive world.

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: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 7.4%, Sandbox 7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the addictive 'just one more task' loop of gathering and crafting found in Crashlands, but with a faster, more streamlined pace.

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 14.1%, Open World 13.1%, Survival 13%, Building 11.9%, Exploration 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that mirrors the creature-taming and base-building mechanics of Crashlands within a procedurally generated 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: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 8.4%, Sandbox 8.3%, Survival 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines top-down survival and base-building with RPG questing and boss combat, providing a similar sense of progression.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Sandbox 12.4%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive 2D sandbox experience that offers unparalleled depth in crafting, exploration, and RPG-style progression.

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: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Survival 20.5%, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 9.4%, Open World 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a challenging survival experience with a distinct, quirky art style and a heavy emphasis on crafting to survive the environment.

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: Open World Survival Craft 40.5% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 8.1%, Open World 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a vast, quest-driven space exploration experience with deep crafting and base-building elements that feel very familiar to Crashlands fans.

Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Crafting 17.1%, Survival 16.7%, Open World 16.5%, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down open-world game focuses on exploration and crafting, rewarding players for dismantling the environment to build better gear.

Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Blends exploration and base-building with automation elements, maintaining a colorful and accessible vibe similar to Crashlands.

Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.

Why similar: Open World 31.1%, Exploration 19.3%, Sandbox 18.3%, Funny 9.1%, Adventure 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on creature collection and exploration in an alien environment, emphasizing a lighthearted and rewarding gameplay loop.

Become the captain of an airship and explore the world of the skies, gather resources and build powerful weapons, uncover ancient secrets and fight beneath your ship's sails.

Why similar: Base Building 18.3%, Open World 17.1%, Sandbox 15.1%, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world top-down game that emphasizes base-building, exploration, and combat in a unique sky-based setting.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.4% ★, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game where you must craft defenses and explore a dangerous alien planet, focusing on the same 'prepare for the next threat' gameplay.

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: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Open World 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features crafting, survival, and creature-taming mechanics in a top-down, island-hopping adventure.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Crafting 15.7%, Open World 15.4%, Survival 12.1%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that incorporates creature taming, RPG elements, and extensive crafting in a vibrant, expansive setting.

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 17.6%, Crafting 17.5%, Open World 15.8%, Building 12.3%, Exploration 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox game that allows for deep creature taming and complex crafting, perfect for players who enjoyed the creature-collection aspect of Crashlands.

Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.4% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 9%, Exploration 5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game set in the Australian outback that emphasizes questing, town-building, and exploration.

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: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 7.9%, Building 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox RPG that features a skill-based progression system and crafting, echoing the RPG elements of Crashlands.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Survival 11.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: While first-person, it is the gold standard for alien-world survival, crafting, and exploration-based progression.

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Survival 15.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that emphasizes exploration and base-building, offering a polished experience in a unique, oversized world.

Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 10.7%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox game that focuses on exploration and crafting, offering a relaxing pace for players who enjoy building and discovery.

Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!

Why similar: Crafting 20.6%, Building 19%, Sandbox 17.8%, Open World 15.5%, Multiplayer 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on social simulation, it features a robust crafting and quest-driven progression system in a desert-themed world.

Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic (and ridiculous) survival adventure. Will you manage to stay alive as you unravel the mysteries of Wrongworld and search for a way home?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.5% ★, Survival 10.3%, Open World 8%, Crafting 7.9%, Sandbox 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that balances crafting and exploration with a humorous tone that aligns well with the personality of Crashlands.

In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Open World 10.4%, Sandbox 9.8%, Survival 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that centers on base-building and exploration, fitting the core loop of Crashlands.

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

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

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes crafting and building, offering a more strategic take on the survival-crafting genre.

Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.7% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.5%, Building 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and crafting on an alien planet, emphasizing exploration and resource management.

Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that focuses on exploration and resource management in a space-themed setting.

Embark on an epic journey in this hardcore Multiplayer RPG! As a Galactic Cadet, you and your Combat Squad of friends must brave hostile worlds in search of valuable loot and resources. Craft powerful gear, slay otherworldly creatures, and save the galaxy.

Why similar: RPG 21.5%, Multiplayer 21.3%, Survival 17.1%, Crafting 14.7%, 2D 10%

Why You'll Like It: Features action-oriented combat and crafting in a sci-fi setting, appealing to players who enjoyed the combat-heavy side of Crashlands.

Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.

Why similar: RPG 30.2%, Multiplayer 29.9%, Funny 15.2%, Adventure 9.1%, Indie 8.9%

GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 11.1%, Open World 10.5%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes building and crafting on a hostile alien planet.

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Open World 13.6%, Survival 12%, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 7.9%

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: Open World Survival Craft 33.5% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%

Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.5% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 8.6%, Open World 8.4%

Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.

Why similar: 2D 43.4%, Adventure 35%, Singleplayer 21.6%

Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.9% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 9%, Crafting 7.9%, Sandbox 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that focuses on exploration and base-building in a sci-fi environment.

Holy Potatoes! We’re in Space?! is a whacky space exploration game where you manage your very own spaceship, craft hundreds of weapons, and explore the vastness of a veggie-filled universe.

Why similar: Survival 19.7%, Sci-fi 15.8%, RPG 9.5%, Exploration 9.3%, Adventure 8.6%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 9.9%, Building 8.7%, Base Building 8.2%

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Open World 10.6%, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Sandbox 7.6%

Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 8.2%, Open World 7.7%

Curious Expedition is a roguelike expedition simulation set in the late 19th century. Together with famous personalities you will venture on unprecedented expeditions to regions never explored before for fame, science and treasures.

Why similar: Exploration 33.3%, RPG 28.3%, Story Rich 20.2%, 2D 12.4%, Singleplayer 5.8%

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 19.5%, Crafting 18.7%, Building 15.7%, Survival 14.9%, Multiplayer 9.8%

Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 10%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 8.6%

Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 8.9%, Survival 8.7%

Investigate a starship crash, explore a hostile world, build shelters and survive nightly attacks of the Rot. Tear down any structure and experience total freedom of action.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.8% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 10%, Sandbox 9.9%

Secrets of Grindea is an old-school Action RPG with co-op support for up to 4 players. Journey through fantastical lands and battle tons of different enemies and bosses in your quest for truth, friendship and, above all, finding the world’s rarest treasures!

Why similar: Top-Down 17.1%, Multiplayer 16.9%, RPG 14.7%, Funny 13.3%, Story Rich 10.5%

Dragon Cliff is a Semi-Idle RPG game with deep and complex itemization/skill systems to support endless character builds. Players are to collect adventurers, kill monsters, advance talent trees, enchant/reforge equipment, discover scrolls and finally assemble the most powerful adventure team!

Why similar: RPG 67.8%, Adventure 14.4%, Indie 8.5%, 2D 5.9%, Singleplayer 3.4%

Your spaceship crashed on an alien planet. Explore, salvage, craft, trade, manage and upgrade your way back home!

Why similar: Open World 19.3%, Crafting 19.2%, Exploration 10.7%, Sci-fi 10.5%, Female Protagonist 10.2%

Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Open World 10.1%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 9.3%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 8.3%, Sandbox 8.1%

Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 9%

A sci-fi base building survival game, featuring raids, agriculture, intelligent AI, natural disasters and more.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 9%, Open World 8.7%, Sandbox 8.3%

Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Open World 11.7%, Survival 11.2%, Building 7.8%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 65.8% ★, Survival 21.3%, Open World 3.2%, Crafting 3%, Multiplayer 2.8%

TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 8.9%

Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Crafting 11%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.7%, Open World 8.9%

Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Open World 11.1%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 7.8%

Circle Empires is a fresh take on the RTS genre, featuring a fast-paced approach to conquering the world.

Why similar: Indie 44.6%, Multiplayer 34.2%, 2D 11.4%, Singleplayer 9.8%

Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!

Why similar: Crafting 23.6%, Open World 21.4%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 11.4%, RPG 11.3%

A shop game with RPG? Or is it RPG with a shop? Collect materials, Craft weapons, Train your staff and defeat your enemy! This is Weapon Shop Fantasy!

Why similar: RPG 43.9%, Crafting 26.9%, Adventure 13.8%, Indie 10.3%, 2D 5.2%