- #1 Keplerth
97% matchVery Positive84% of 4,159 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 18.2%, Survival 17.4%, Open World 13.7%, Base Building 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down sandbox survival game shares a very similar visual style and core gameplay loop of exploration and crafting.
- #2 Necesse
96% matchVery Positive93% of 28,807 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 42.1% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 9.7%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that combines base building, settlement management, and progression in a way that feels very familiar to CryoFall players.
- #3 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,392 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 77.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 28.7% ★, Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 9%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers a deep sci-fi survival experience with extensive base and ship building, perfect for those who enjoy the technological progression of CryoFall.
- #4 RimWorld
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 245,287 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.6 hrsMean: 266.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 11.8%, Sandbox 10%, Management 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive colony-sim experience that mirrors the base-building and survival management depth found in CryoFall.
- #5 Oxygen Not Included
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 143,483 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 36.9%, Base Building 20.4%, Survival 12.6%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A highly detailed colony-sim that focuses on resource management and survival in a sci-fi setting, requiring careful planning and engineering.
- #6 Stationeers
94% matchVery Positive88% of 9,229 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 85.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 15.8% ★, Agriculture 15% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: For players who love the technical and engineering aspects of CryoFall, this game provides complex atmospheric and electrical systems to master.
- #7 Space Haven
91% matchVery Positive86% of 11,081 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 15.6%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, Survival 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi colony-sim focuses on building and maintaining a ship-based base, offering a similar management-heavy experience to CryoFall.
- #8 Eco
93% matchVery Positive81% of 14,049 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.7 hrsMean: 90.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 25.1% ★, Agriculture 18.4% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Economy 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes community-driven tech progression and resource management within a persistent world, mirroring the multiplayer survival aspects of CryoFall.
- #9 Farworld Pioneers
92% matchMostly Negative38% of 701 reviews2023
Dev: IgloosoftPub: tinyBuild
Windows
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 22.9% ★, Colony Sim 19.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sci-fi survival game that blends colony management with open-world exploration and crafting.
- #10 ICARUS
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 28.3% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Mining 11% ★, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based sci-fi survival game that features intense base building and technological advancement in a hostile alien environment.
- #11 Colony Survival
90% matchVery Positive92% of 8,976 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Survival 11.9%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on building and defending a colony, offering a similar sense of progression and base security as seen in CryoFall.
- #12 Craft The World
89% matchVery Positive88% of 17,055 reviews2014
Dev: Dekovir EntertainmentPub: Dekovir Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 14.9%, Sandbox 14.1%, Survival 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling colony-sim that emphasizes mining, crafting, and defending your base against waves of enemies.
- #13 Mercury Fallen
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 318 reviews2023
Dev: Nitrous ButterflyPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 19.3% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Building 10%, Crafting 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony management game that tasks you with building and expanding an underground facility on a strange planet.
- #14 ASTRONEER
88% matchVery Positive92% of 139,015 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 32.8% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 11%, Space 10%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: This game captures the sci-fi exploration and base-building spirit of CryoFall with a focus on planetary terraforming and resource gathering.
- #15 FortressCraft Evolved!
87% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,063 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 34.9% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 10%, Base Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A massive open-world game that focuses heavily on automation, mining, and building large-scale defensive structures.
- #16 Lightyear Frontier
84% matchVery Positive84% of 4,679 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 21.8% ★, Agriculture 17.7% ★, Mechs 16.7% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing sci-fi farming and base-building game that utilizes mechs for exploration and resource gathering.
- #17 Autonauts
85% matchVery Positive90% of 4,956 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 12.8%, Building 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the automation and colony-building elements of survival games, allowing you to program robots to perform tasks for you.
- #18 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
86% matchVery Positive81% of 2,264 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 16.9%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that combines base building with tactical combat, set in a post-apocalyptic world.
- #19 Project Zomboid
84% matchVery Positive94% of 475,049 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.6 hrsMean: 87.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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%, Open World 11.4%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: While the setting is different, it offers the most hardcore survival and base-building mechanics available, rewarding careful planning and resource management.
- #20 Kenshi
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 115,920 reviews2018
Dev: Lo-Fi Games
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 71.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 16.1%, Crafting 14.5%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 12.1%, Survival 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A brutal sandbox survival game that allows for extensive base building and squad management in a harsh, unforgiving world.
- #21 Factorio
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 233,774 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 192.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 15.8%, Survival 10%, Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: If you enjoy the industrial and automation aspects of CryoFall, this game provides the ultimate experience in building complex production chains.
- #22 Rust
82% matchVery Positive87% of 1,393,461 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.7 hrsMean: 429.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 27.7% ★, Survival 19.7%, Crafting 16.4%, Building 10.1%, Open World 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers the intense multiplayer survival and PvP base-building experience that serves as a core component of CryoFall's gameplay.
- #23 Valheim
81% matchVery Positive94% of 540,690 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.0 hrsMean: 78.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 35.6% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 11%, Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly satisfying loop of exploration, resource gathering, and base building within a challenging survival framework.
- #24 7 Days to Die
79% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.3 hrsMean: 110.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 32.8% ★, Survival 16.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines voxel-based building with intense survival mechanics and tower defense elements.
- #25 Terraria
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,548,448 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.8 hrsMean: 151.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.7% ★, Sandbox 15%, Crafting 12%, Survival 11.1%, Building 10%
Why You'll Like It: A classic 2D survival game that offers immense depth in crafting, boss progression, and base building.
- #26 Interstellar Rift
81% matchMixed68% of 1,666 reviews2020
Dev: Split PolygonPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 24.4% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 11.3%, PvP 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A space-sim that allows for complex ship construction and exploration, appealing to the sci-fi builder in CryoFall fans.
- #27 Don't Starve Together
79% matchVery Positive95% of 541,972 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 64.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 23.2%, Crafting 3.6%, Open World 2.7%, Sandbox 2.3%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game with a unique art style that emphasizes resource management and crafting for group play.
- #28 Eden Crafters
77% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 27.6% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Colony Sim 12.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #29 Surviving Ceres
77% matchVery Positive87% of 139 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
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 26.7%, Crafting 14.6%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 12.4%, Survival 11.7%
- #30 ALL WILL FALL
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,385 reviews2026
Dev: All Parts ConnectedPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 27.2% ★, Colony Sim 24.7%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 9%, Building 7%
- #31 Niffelheim
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,338 reviews2018
Dev: Ellada Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 28.3% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 11.2%, Survival 9.9%
- #32 Occupy Mars: The Game
75% matchMixed70% of 3,132 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Mining 17.1% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 8%
- #33 Force of Nature
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Crafting 15%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 9.2%, Building 8.3%
- #34 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
74% matchVery Positive91% of 7,602 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 9%, Building 8.6%
- #35 Soulmask
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,226 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 20.7% ★, Colony Sim 15.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 8.7%
- #36 Star Crafter
74% matchMixed70% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
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 25.7% ★, Mining 20.5% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Space 7.3%
- #37 Prospector
73% matchMixed70% of 152 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
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 22.2% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #38 Maia
76% matchMixed44% of 1,064 reviews2018
Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 12.5%, Management 10.4%, Space 7.8%
- #39 XERA: Survival
73% matchMixed66% of 7,941 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 29.3% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 9.7%, Building 8%
- #40 XenoHaven
70% matchVery Positive86% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
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 14.2%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 10.1%
- #41 One Lonely Outpost
71% matchMixed58% of 658 reviews2025
Dev: indie.io
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 10.8%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 8.9%
- #42 Planetbase
72% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,422 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 37.2%, Base Building 19.3%, Space 11.4%, Survival 11.2%, Building 6.4%
- #43 Aven Colony
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,779 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 18.6%, Space 7.8%, Survival 6%, Management 3.9%
- #44 Scrapnaut
71% matchMixed70% of 837 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 28.4% ★, Building 15.4%, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 12.3%, Base Building 12.2%
- #45 Romestead
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 4,827 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 26.3% ★, Crafting 15.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 11.3%, Building 9.5%
- #46 Oceaneers
67% matchVery Positive89% of 108 reviews2026
Dev: Barrel Smash Studios
Windows
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 21.9%, Open World Survival Craft 20.7% ★, Crafting 11%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 9.2%
- #47 The Planet Crafter
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 30.6% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 10.3%, Survival 9.8%
- #48 Out of Reach
71% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 40.1% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 8.6%, Open World 8.5%
- #49 Stars End
68% matchMixed61% of 1,428 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.5%, PvP 10.5%, Space 9.8%
- #50 Russian Village Simulator on Mars
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: VD Games
Windows
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 20% ★, Fishing 13.5% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 9.2%
- #51 GRAV
70% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 38.2% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #52 Breathedge
66% matchVery Positive81% of 17,661 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Space 11%, Sandbox 11%, Survival 11%
- #53 Planet Explorers
69% matchMixed62% of 6,818 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 10.4%, Survival 9.3%
- #54 Life is Feudal: MMO
70% matchMixed40% of 7,349 reviews2018
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 45.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 26.9% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Economy 9%, Sandbox 9%
- #55 Outpost Zero
69% matchMixed48% of 853 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 40.1% ★, Survival 15.6%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 8.8%
- #56 Forager
66% matchVery Positive89% of 43,959 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 37.6% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 8.7%, Agriculture 8% ★
- #57 Dig or Die
66% matchVery Positive90% of 4,284 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 36.9% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Survival 12.9%, Sandbox 12.7%, Base Building 7.6%
