Games Like CryoFall

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 19.4%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 10%, Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the deep colony-management, tech progression, and survival challenges that define the core experience of 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 37%, Base Building 20.4%, Survival 12.5%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a similarly complex sci-fi survival experience with a heavy focus on automation, resource management, and base building.

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 17%, Mining 15.9% ★, Agriculture 14.9% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a high-fidelity sci-fi survival experience that mirrors the technical depth and base-building complexity found in 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 41.6% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 9.9%, Base Building 9.3%, Survival 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines sandbox survival with colony management and multiplayer, offering a very similar gameplay loop to CryoFall.

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 13.6%, Base Building 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival-crafting game that closely mimics the top-down perspective and exploration mechanics of CryoFall.

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 28.6% ★, Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: This title captures the sci-fi exploration and survival-crafting loop on a grand scale, perfect for fans of CryoFall's setting.

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 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on sci-fi colony management and survival, requiring careful resource allocation and base construction.

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% ★, Agriculture 18.3% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Economy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It features a persistent multiplayer world with a focus on collaborative technology progression and environmental management.

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 30.4% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 10.3%, Survival 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi survival game focuses on terraforming and base building, capturing the feeling of establishing a foothold on a hostile world.

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 22.8% ★, Colony Sim 19.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony-sim that blends survival and crafting with a focus on managing a growing base in space.

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 15%, Sandbox 14.1%, Survival 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This 2D colony simulation game focuses on mining, crafting, and building, sharing the accessible yet deep nature of CryoFall.

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 36.1% ★, Survival 20.5%, Sandbox 11.3%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a hardcore, deep survival experience with extensive base-building and crafting mechanics that appeal to the same audience.

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 17.3%, Sandbox 15.8%, Survival 9.9%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on industrialization and tech-tree progression provides a satisfying sense of growth similar to CryoFall's mid-to-late game.

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% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Mining 11.2% ★, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that features sci-fi technology and challenging base-building in a hostile alien 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 32.7% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 11%, Space 10.1%, Open World 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes sci-fi exploration, crafting, and base building in a colorful, sandbox environment.

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 27.6% ★, Survival 19.7%, Crafting 16.5%, Building 10.1%, Open World 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: As a primary inspiration for the multiplayer survival aspects of CryoFall, it offers intense base-building and PvP mechanics.

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 35.4% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly polished survival-crafting experience with a strong emphasis on base building and progression.

A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Why similar: Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 13.9%, Sandbox 12.4%, Building 12%, Open World 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A brutal sandbox survival game that allows for extensive base building and squad management in a harsh, unforgiving world.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Base Building 25.1%, Open World Survival Craft 18.1% ★, Crafting 16.7%, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a first-person perspective on the automation and base-building mechanics that drive the progression in CryoFall.

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 31.7%, Base Building 16.8%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines colony-sim elements with survival and base-building, providing a similar strategic challenge to CryoFall.

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Base Building 28.6%, Space 17.9%, Building 17.2%, Sandbox 13.1%, Management 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at sci-fi automation and large-scale construction, appealing to those who enjoy the industrial side of CryoFall.

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 32.7% ★, Survival 16.1%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A robust survival game that emphasizes base fortification and crafting against constant environmental threats.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.5% ★, Space 14%, Open World 13%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers vast sci-fi exploration, base building, and survival mechanics across a procedurally generated universe.

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

Why similar: Survival 15.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 11.6%, Open World 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features deep survival, taming, and base-building mechanics that are highly popular among fans of open-world survival games.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Crafting 17.7%, Agriculture 17.2% ★, Building 15.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: While set in a different era, it perfectly captures the colony-sim and survival-building loop found in CryoFall.

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 67.8% ★, Survival 23.3%, Crafting 3.6%, Open World 2.7%, Sandbox 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging multiplayer survival game that requires careful crafting and base management to survive the elements.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.6% ★, Sandbox 15%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 11.1%, Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: This classic sandbox game offers endless crafting, building, and progression that aligns with the core loop of CryoFall.

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 11.7%

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.8% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game focused on base building and resource management in an open-world 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 27.4% ★, Base Building 13%, Colony Sim 12.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 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 34.7% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 10%, Base Building 9.4%

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 19.5% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.6%

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 28.2% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 11.2%, Survival 9.9%

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 21.7% ★, Agriculture 17.7% ★, Mechs 16.6% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 9.8%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, Crafting 15.1%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 9.2%, Building 8.3%

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 37.4% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 8.7%, Agriculture 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 27.5% ★, 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 25.5% ★, Mining 20.7% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Space 7.2%

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% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 9.6%

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 31.8% ★, Crafting 11.3%, PvP 10.6%, Survival 10.5%, Space 9.8%

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 24.6% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 11.3%, PvP 10.1%

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 41.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 12.4%, Management 10.5%, Space 7.7%

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 22.1% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.8%

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 23.3% ★, Colony Sim 16.1%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 7.9%

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 14.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 10%

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 29.5%, Base Building 21.5%, Space 11.6%, Building 11%, Crafting 10.9%

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%

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 29.1% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 9.7%, Building 8%

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 13.5%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 10.7%

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%

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 46.9% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 8%, Sandbox 7.7%

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 20.5% ★, Crafting 11%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 9.2%

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 28.3% ★, Building 15.4%, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 12.4%, Base Building 12.3%

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 29.9% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 10.4%, Survival 9.9%

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 26.2% ★, Crafting 15.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 11.2%, Building 9.5%

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 36.7% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 12.9%, Sandbox 12.8%, Base Building 7.6%

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% ★, Survival 15.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 8.7%

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

Why similar: Agriculture 21.5% ★, Open World Survival Craft 19.8% ★, Fishing 13.6% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 9.3%