Games Like CryoFall

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 41.5% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 10%, Base Building 9.3%, Survival 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down, multiplayer-focused survival game mirrors the progression and exploration style of CryoFall perfectly.

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 19.6%, Building 18.3%, Survival 17.3%, Open World 13.5%, Base Building 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down, sci-fi survival game that emphasizes crafting, base-building, and exploration in a hostile environment.

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 34.8%, Base Building 19.3%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 10%, Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the most comparable depth in colony management, technology research, and base-building challenges.

Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.2% ★, Colony Sim 19.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and tribe management, offering a similar sense of progression from primitive tools to advanced technology.

Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Economy 11.9%, Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a complex, multiplayer-driven economy and survival experience that emphasizes long-term base-building and environmental management.

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, Survival 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony-sim that focuses on survival and base-building within the confined, challenging environment of a spaceship.

Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and building with space exploration, capturing the sci-fi industrial feel of CryoFall.

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 41.4% ★, Sandbox 13.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 8.8%, Space 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar sci-fi setting with extensive crafting, exploration, and base-building across various planets.

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 37%, Base Building 20.3%, Survival 12.5%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep resource management and base-building mechanics set in a sci-fi environment that requires careful planning.

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.9%, Mining 16.1% ★, Agriculture 14.9% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore sci-fi survival game that focuses on complex automation and engineering, similar to the industrial progression in CryoFall.

Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Colony Sim 19.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony-sim that blends survival and automation with a focus on exploration and base development.

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 34.5% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 10.1%, Base Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on automation, resource extraction, and base-building in a large-scale sandbox environment.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Survival 20.5%, Sandbox 11.4%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly realistic isometric survival experience with deep crafting and base-building mechanics.

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 31.6%, Base Building 16.8%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with survival and base-building in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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 67.6% ★, Survival 23.4%, Crafting 3.6%, Open World 2.7%, Sandbox 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging multiplayer survival game that emphasizes crafting, resource gathering, and base defense.

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

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on managing dwarves through crafting, building, and defending their base.

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 37.2% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 8.7%, Agriculture 8% ★

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced crafting and survival game that focuses on constant progression and resource expansion.

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features robust building and survival mechanics in an open world that rewards exploration and resource management.

A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Mining 19.7% ★, Base Building 13%, Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi management game that focuses on building and maintaining an underground colony.

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Survival 16.1%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival, crafting, and base-building with a focus on defending against waves of enemies.

The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Survival 19.7%, Crafting 16.5%, Building 10.2%, Open World 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive multiplayer survival game that shares the competitive base-building and raiding elements found in CryoFall.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.4% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 11.1%, Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a massive amount of crafting, progression, and boss-fighting content within a 2D sandbox environment.

Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Base Building 13%, Colony Sim 12.4%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automation and base-building as you terraform a planet, sharing the industrial progression of CryoFall.

In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.6% ★, Agriculture 17.8% ★, Mechs 16.6% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A peaceful survival and building game that uses mechs to explore and farm on an alien planet.

Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!

Why similar: Mining 24.9% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 11.3%, PvP 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A space-sim that focuses on ship building and resource management in a persistent universe.

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 60.7%, Base Building 18.5%, Space 7.8%, Survival 6%, Management 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that focuses on managing a colony on an alien planet, emphasizing survival and resource management.

You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.

Why similar: Crafting 30.4%, Survival 25.7%, Sandbox 25.1%, Open World 18.8%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that features base-building and crafting in an accessible, blocky aesthetic.

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, Crafting 14.6%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 12.3%, Survival 11.6%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.5% ★, Crafting 15.1%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 8.4%

Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Economy 9.5%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival and building game that emphasizes community and large-scale construction.

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 36.5% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 12.9%, Sandbox 12.9%, Base Building 7.7%

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: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 11.3%, Survival 9.9%

Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 9.7%, Building 8%

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Colony Sim 25.4%, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 7.1%

A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Mining 21% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Space 7.2%

Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.2%, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 12.4%, Management 10.6%, Space 7.7%

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Mining 11.4% ★, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 10%

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Building 15.5%, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 12.4%, Base Building 12.2%

Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Crafting 11.4%, PvP 10.6%, Survival 10.5%, Space 9.8%

Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.9% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.8%

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 37.9% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 9.6%

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 25.2% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 11%, Survival 10%

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 37.4%, Base Building 19.3%, Space 11.4%, Survival 11.1%, Building 6.3%

An alien world sometimes needs a farmer’s touch to bring it to life. In this sci-fi, colonization-life sim, terraform a barren world: turn wastelands into verdant landscapes while exploring, farming, building, and unlocking all the mysteries of this strange new planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Agriculture 20.2% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 9%

A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, Open World Survival Craft 20.4% ★, Crafting 11%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 9.2%

Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 10.5%, Survival 9.9%

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 10.3%, Survival 9.8%

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 28%, Base Building 17.8%, Agriculture 15% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Building 9.7%

Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 13.6%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 10.7%

Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 12.4%, RPG 5.2%

Develop a village colony on Mars, using various resources and bringing the unique flavor of Russian culture to the distant space.

Why similar: Agriculture 21.4% ★, Open World Survival Craft 19.7% ★, Fishing 13.6% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 9.3%

You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.8% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 8.6%, Open World 8.5%

Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Crafting 14.5%, Survival 12.4%, Sandbox 9.5%, Open World 8.6%

The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.6% ★, Survival 19.6%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 9.2%, Sandbox 7.2%

MMORPG full of details that create a unique immersion and the spirit of adventure! Play your role in the life-filled medieval world controlled by players.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 9.5%, Base Building 8.4%

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 46.7% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 8%, Sandbox 7.7%

Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.6% ★, Sandbox 15.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Space 7.5%, Survival 7%