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 41.4% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 10%, Base Building 9.3%, Survival 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down, multiplayer-focused survival game that excels at combining colony management with open-world exploration.

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 19.7%, Building 18.3%, Survival 17.1%, Open World 13.5%, Base Building 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This isometric survival game mirrors CryoFall's art style and focus on exploration, crafting, and base-building.

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 11.6%, Sandbox 10%, Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive top-down colony simulation that shares the deep survival and base-building complexity found 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 22.4% ★, Colony Sim 19.3% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony-sim that emphasizes multiplayer cooperation and complex survival systems on alien worlds.

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 28.1% ★, Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.5%, Sandbox 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A robust sci-fi survival game that allows for extensive base and ship building across multiple 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 20.4%, Survival 12.4%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly detailed sci-fi colony-sim experience centered on complex resource management and survival systems.

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 28.1% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Economy 12.1%, Building 11.3%, Crafting 11%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on collaborative multiplayer survival and complex resource management in a persistent, player-driven world.

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 35.8% ★, Survival 20.6%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredibly deep, isometric survival experience with complex mechanics that will appeal to fans of CryoFall's technical depth.

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 41.2% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 8.8%, Space 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi sandbox that captures the exploration, crafting, and base-building spirit of CryoFall in a vast universe.

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 27.1% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management and survival aspects of a sci-fi colony within the confined, challenging environment of a spaceship.

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 27.5% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Mining 11.6% ★, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 10%

Why You'll Like It: A session-based multiplayer survival game that emphasizes sci-fi technology and challenging environmental survival.

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 12.1%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on survival and base-building in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Survival 57%, Management 30.7%, 2D 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A tense, multiplayer-focused sci-fi survival game that requires intense team coordination and resource management.

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 19.9% ★, Mining 19.1% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore sci-fi survival game that demands deep knowledge of complex systems, perfect for fans of CryoFall's technical side.

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 34.2% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 10.1%, Base Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines deep automation and base-building with survival elements in a large-scale sandbox environment.

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: Sandbox 18.5%, Open World 16.1%, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 10.6%

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

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 17.6%, Building 15%, Sandbox 14.1%, Survival 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes crafting and building, providing a similar top-down management feel.

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 30.7%, Crafting 17.3%, Sandbox 15.8%, Survival 9.9%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on automation, its sci-fi setting and deep resource management systems align well with CryoFall's tech progression.

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 22.9% ★, Mining 19.8% ★, Base Building 13%, Building 9.8%, Crafting 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric management game that focuses on survival and base-building in a sci-fi underground facility.

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 21.4% ★, Agriculture 17.8% ★, Mechs 16.6% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A peaceful take on the survival-craft genre that features mechs and base-building in a sci-fi setting.

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 32.3% ★, Survival 16.1%, Base Building 15%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a blend of multiplayer survival and base-building that emphasizes defense against environmental and external threats.

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 27.3% ★, Survival 19.6%, Crafting 16.7%, Building 10.2%, Open World 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: The primary inspiration for the multiplayer, PvP, and base-building dynamics that define the survival experience in CryoFall.

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 34.8% ★, Base Building 12%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A premier multiplayer survival game that excels in base-building and progression systems within a challenging open world.

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3% ★, Base Building 19.4%, Space 11.4%, Survival 11%, Building 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A focused colony-sim that tasks players with managing a sci-fi base on a hostile planet.

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 36.2% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 12.9%, Survival 12.9%, Base Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival game that focuses on crafting, building, and defending against waves of enemies.

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 67.5% ★, Survival 23.4%, Crafting 3.7%, Open World 2.7%, Sandbox 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A highly stylized multiplayer survival game that requires constant crafting and resource management to survive.

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% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 8.8%, Agriculture 8% ★

Why You'll Like It: An addictive, top-down survival-craft game that emphasizes rapid progression and resource gathering.

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 14.7%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 12.3%, Survival 11.5%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.1% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 11.1%, Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic sandbox that offers extensive crafting, exploration, and progression systems similar to the core loop of CryoFall.

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 18.6%, Space 7.8%, Survival 5.9%, Management 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi city-builder that emphasizes resource management and survival in a hostile alien environment.

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 27.8% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 11.3%, Survival 9.8%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Crafting 15.3%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 8.4%

Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Colony Sim 12.4% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 8.7%

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% ★, Mining 21.2% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Space 7.2%

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 21.8% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.9%

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 31.3% ★, Crafting 11.5%, PvP 10.6%, Survival 10.5%, Space 9.8%

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% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 11%, Survival 10%

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 39.6% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 8.7%, Open World 8.5%

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%

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 44.3% ★, Sandbox 15.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Space 7.5%, Survival 7%

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 41.7% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 12.5%, Management 10.9%, Space 7.8%

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 29.5% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 10.5%, Survival 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 25.1% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 11.3%, PvP 10.1%

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Agriculture 20.9% ★, Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Fishing 18.2% ★, Crafting 11%, Building 9.1%

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%

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% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 10.5%, Survival 9.8%

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% ★, Building 15.5%, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 12.5%, Base Building 12.3%

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 19.5% ★, Fishing 13.7% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 9.3%

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 28.7% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 9.6%, Building 8.1%

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 28.3% ★, Colony Sim 24.8% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 8.6%, Character Customization 7.8%

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 37.7% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 9.7%

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% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 9.6%

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: Fishing 18.5% ★, Agriculture 17.1% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 13.1%

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% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 10.5%, Survival 9.7%

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 26.3% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Economy 9.7%, Sandbox 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 26.7% ★, Base Building 25.9%, Survival 17.6%, Crafting 15.4%, Management 8.8%

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 23.1% ★, Mining 21.9% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Economy 10.3%