Games Like CryoFall

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 36.8%, Base Building 20.4%, Survival 12.7%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep sci-fi colony management and complex resource-piping automation reminiscent of CryoFall's industrial tiers.

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 34.7%, Base Building 19.4%, Survival 11.9%, Sandbox 10%, Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the top-down colony simulation and survival management depth, challenging you to build a thriving base on a distant planet.

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 28.9% ★, Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 9.6%, Space 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the sci-fi open-world survival and base-building aspects on an expansive planetary scale.

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 28.5% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Mining 10.8% ★, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Pits you against a harsh alien environment with a strong emphasis on crafting, base building, and technological progression.

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 42.3% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 9.6%, Base Building 9.2%, Survival 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world survival craft and sandbox colony elements with top-down gameplay mechanics.

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 25.3% ★, Agriculture 18.4% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Economy 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on resource management, collaborative crafting, and technological advancement in a delicate ecosystem sandbox.

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 20.3%, Building 18.9%, Survival 18.2%, Open World 14.4%, Base Building 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D procedural sandbox survival game that mirrors CryoFall's exploration, farming, and base-building loop.

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%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, Survival 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides intricate sci-fi colony simulation and spaceship building where managing resources and survival is paramount.

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 15.7% ★, Agriculture 15.1% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers hardcore sci-fi base building and complex atmospheric engineering for players who love CryoFall's technical systems.

Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Mining 14.1% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines hard sci-fi survival, base building, and crafting mechanics on a hostile planet similar to CryoFall's setting.

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 33.8%, Crafting 17.5%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 14.1%, Survival 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Blends sandbox crafting, base building, and colony simulation with direct control over a growing group of survivors.

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 35.1% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 10%, Base Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on heavy industrial automation, mining, and base building on an alien planet.

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 23.1% ★, Colony Sim 19.1%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines sci-fi colony simulation and open-world survival crafting on unpredictable alien worlds.

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 12.4%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features colony simulation and base building combined with survival strategy elements.

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 19.2% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Building 10%, Crafting 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric sci-fi colony management game where you expand an underground facility and ensure survivor survival.

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 28.5% ★, Crafting 14%, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 11.1%, Survival 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features 2D survival crafting and base building with a strong emphasis on exploration and resource management.

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 28.5% ★, Building 15.4%, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 12.3%, Base Building 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down base building survival game where you manage electricity, oxygen, and farming in a hostile world.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 13%, Sandbox 12.7%, Base Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes scientific survival, automated defenses, and crafting to withstand nightly onslaughts on an alien planet.

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 37.8% ★, Crafting 14%, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 8.6%, Agriculture 7.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: Offers an addictive resource gathering, base building, and crafting progression loop in a top-down perspective.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Crafting 14.9%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival crafting and sandbox game focused on exploration and mastering your environment.

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 32.9% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11%, Space 10.1%, Open World 9%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox adventure centered around planetary deformation, base building, and automated sci-fi resource gathering.

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%, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 12.6%, Management 10.3%, Space 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony simulation set on a hostile planet where you must build a life support facility and survive.

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 60.4%, Base Building 18.5%, Space 7.9%, Survival 6.1%, Management 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi city builder and colony simulation focused on establishing human civilization on an alien world.

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 24.2% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 11.3%, PvP 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi ship-building and station management game that appeals to fans of multiplayer engineering and exploration.

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 42.7% ★, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate alien planet survival crafting experience with deep exploration and base building.

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 38.4% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world sandbox survival game featuring planetary exploration and base building in deep space.

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: Base Building 30.8%, Crafting 17.2%, Sandbox 15.7%, Survival 10%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: The pinnacle of industrial automation and technological progression on an alien planet, matching CryoFall's tech tree appeal.

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.7% ★, Space 14%, Open World 13.2%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers boundless sci-fi planetary exploration, base building, and resource crafting on a massive scale.

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 67.9% ★, Survival 23.2%, Crafting 3.5%, Open World 2.8%, Sandbox 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging top-down survival game emphasizing resource harvesting, crafting, and enduring harsh environments.

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 27.8% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Colony Sim 12.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 8.5%

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 24.6%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 9%, Building 7%

SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 8.9%, Sandbox 7.8%

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 45.1% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 11%, Space 7.5%, Survival 7%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D open-world sandbox survival game set in a sci-fi universe with heavy crafting and exploration.

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 25.3% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10.1%

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 25.9% ★, Mining 20.3% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Space 7.3%

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 21.3% ★, Mining 16.9% ★, Mechs 15.6% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 9.3%

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 32.2% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 10.6%, PvP 10.4%, 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 22.3% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 12%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.7%

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 41.9% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 8.9%, Space 7.8%

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%, Agriculture 20.3% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 8.9%

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 37.1%, Base Building 19.3%, Space 11.5%, Survival 11.3%, Building 6.4%

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 30.3% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 12%, Survival 9.8%

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 42.1% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 10.5%, Survival 9.4%

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 21.8%, Open World Survival Craft 21% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 9.3%

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 33.8% ★, Sandbox 12%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 9.4%, PvP 8.1%

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 30.7% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 10.2%, Survival 9.9%

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, Base Building 26%, Survival 18%, Crafting 15.1%, Management 8.2%

Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Crafting 15.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 11.3%, Building 9.4%

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 23.5%, Mining 21.5% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 11%, Building 9.7%

Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Survival 15.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 8.9%

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: Open World Survival Craft 39.4% ★, Crafting 14%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 10.6%

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

Why similar: Agriculture 21.6% ★, Open World Survival Craft 20.2% ★, Fishing 13.4% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.2%

Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, Base Building 21.5%, Space 11.8%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.9%

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 50% ★, Survival 19.5%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 9.3%, Sandbox 7.1%

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 17.9%, Agriculture 15.1% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Building 9.8%

It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Colony Sim 24.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 8.5%, Character Customization 7.5%

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 29.4% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 9.7%, Building 8%

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 40.3% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 12%, Open World 8.6%, Building 8.5%

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 29.7% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 10.4%, Survival 9.8%