- #1 Hold the Line
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Safepanic Studio
Windows
Hold the Line is a top-down 2D roguelite survival game. Survive on a procedurally generated island, prepare by day, endure the night, forge your survival build, adapt to dynamic events, and face the final trial on Day 7.
Why similar: Base Building 17.9%, Survival 15.1%, Perma Death 14.9%, Crafting 13.4%, Resource Management 13.1%
- #2 Exot
96% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: PH Networks
Windows
Discover a still unexplored region of space: the Exot galaxy. With your C.L.I.C. as your only ally, obtain the resources necessary for your survival. Develop your ship, improve your workshops, face creatures to conquer these hostile lands.
Why similar: Base Building 17.6%, Survival 17.1%, Crafting 16.5%, Building 15%, Resource Management 12.9%
- #3 Kindling Wilds: Symbiotic Wasteland
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EasyLovePub: 猫耳游戏
Windows
Ember: Symbiotic Wilderness is a 2D pixel-art co-op survival game set in a living wilderness shaped by temperature, weather, seasons, and ecology. Start with a single fire, divide the work with your team, and build a camp that can endure.
Why similar: Survival 19.5%, Base Building 18.1%, Building 14%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #4 Survindust
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IS Games
Windows
Stranded on a small island, you must gather, build, and automate to survive and turn a humble camp into a thriving, self-sustaining base.
Why similar: Survival 20.1%, Resource Management 16.7%, Crafting 15.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Strategy 12%
- #5 Everlost
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: kub3sqtPub: Orivilon
Windows
Stranded in a world that never stops growing. Gather, craft, build and survive in an infinite procedurally generated wilderness where no two worlds are ever the same.
Why similar: Building 18.1%, Crafting 17.7%, Base Building 17.3%, Survival 16.4%, Sandbox 12.5%
- #6 Forlorn
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Rainmade Games
Windows
Forage, craft, build, hunt, explore. Tackle the wilderness and anything lurking in the shadows in this single-player survival horror adventure.
Why similar: Base Building 18%, Perma Death 15.7%, Survival 14.2%, Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.3%
- #7 Craft Hero - Prologue
93% matchVery Positive94% of 157 reviews2022
Dev: PandaCat 熊喵独立游戏Pub: OKJOY
Windows
Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night! A new minimalism sandbox survival with countless new ideas – Craft Hero
Why similar: Base Building 20.6%, Crafting 16.9%, Survival 13.6%, Building 12.4%, Dungeon Crawler 12%
- #8 Millennium Slumber
92% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Desmodus Games
Windows · Linux
Survive 400,000 years on a planet infested with an alien calamity! Gather resources, build a base and defend against hordes of nocturnal monsters in this rogue-like with cryostasis mechanics.
Why similar: Base Building 20.1%, Crafting 19.6%, Survival 18.7%, Perma Death 16%, Building 13.2%
- #9 Cubits
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mango Nebula Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take control of a talkative little Cubit, who knows he lives inside a game, and do your best to ensure both of you survive in this harsh, unforgiving world.
Why similar: Survival 16%, Perma Death 15.9%, Crafting 14.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Difficult 10%
- #10 Craft Hero
91% matchVery Positive83% of 408 reviews2022
Dev: PandaCat 熊喵独立游戏Pub: OKJOY
Windows
Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night! A new minimalism sandbox survival with countless new ideas – Craft Hero
Why similar: Base Building 21.4%, Crafting 15.9%, Survival 15.5%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #11 Galaxy Scavengers
90% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Base Building 25.7%, Survival 17.6%, Resource Management 15.3%, Building 10.2%, Strategy 10.2%
- #12 HORDE Survival
89% matchMostly Negative29% of 28 reviews2023
Dev: WDS Games
Windows
See yourself stuck in the middle of an ever growing virus epidemic. Find or craft weapons and tools to fight against the living and the dead. Build a safe place to survive in this cruel, apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Base Building 21.7%, Survival 17.3%, Crafting 16.3%, Resource Management 15.8%, Building 14.1%
- #13 LANDLOCK Project Wild
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TheDeskCrewPub: Cory Green
Windows
Embark on a hardcore survival journey in LANDLOCK, where creativity meets unforgiving challenges. Explore, build bases, fight enemies, terraform landscapes, craft strategically, and let your imagination run wild in this pioneering adventure! Are you ready for your ultimate test of survival?
Why similar: Base Building 18.9%, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 14.2%, Building 13.1%, Difficult 11.3%
- #14 Tides of Despair
88% matchMixed42% of 19 reviews2023
Dev: Survival Poly Games
Windows
After a shipwreck, you are one of the survivors. To Survive you will need to fight for your life.
Why similar: Base Building 23.9%, Survival 19.2%, Crafting 17.3%, Building 15.8%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #15 Realmbound
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EnchantedFantasy Studios
Windows
Realmbound is an immersive survival RPG set in a medieval world. Build bases, start farms, recruit companions, explore vast environments, dungeons, and engage in thrilling combat.
Why similar: Base Building 19.8%, Survival 17.2%, Crafting 14.8%, Building 12.1%, Dungeon Crawler 10.6%
- #16 Sheltered
87% matchVery Positive82% of 6,278 reviews2016
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.
Why similar: Survival 28.3%, Base Building 27.5%, Resource Management 10.5%, Building 8.3%, Crafting 7.6%
- #17 V2 Cucumber Scam
85% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: InCiti Games
Windows
A darkly humorous adventure + colony builder (with Farming). Crash-land on V2, home to the mysterious “Cucumbers”. Build a colony, explore anomalies, hack devices and uncover the truth - all in hand-drawn 2D pixel art.
Why similar: Base Building 26.1%, Building 17.8%, Strategy 15%, Dungeon Crawler 12%, Crafting 9.4%
- #18 Cannibal Island: Survival
86% matchMixed47% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: EchoTale Games
Windows
It was a dark and stormy night when the helicopter had to make an emergency landing on an isolated island. Unfortunately for them, fate had a cruel twist in store. As the storm progressed, the chopper was violently tossed and turned until it landed on an isolated island shrouded in mystery.
Why similar: Survival 23.9%, Base Building 22.3%, Crafting 20.4%, Resource Management 19.1%, Sandbox 6.2%
- #19 Survival Time
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zzgame
Windows
"Survival Time" is a survival strategy game where you build shelters. You must plan your time, make tough choices, and work with your companions to survive in harsh environments.
Why similar: Survival 22.7%, Crafting 18.3%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 16.1%, Exploration 10%
- #20 A Silent Desolation
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SHK Interactive
Windows
Stranded on post-apocalyptic Earth centuries after humanity's exodus, "A Silent Desolation" is a solo survival game developed by one person. Face dangers, craft, explore, and uncover secrets while repairing a shuttle base to escape.
Why similar: Base Building 19.3%, Survival 17.7%, Crafting 14.2%, Building 11.9%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #21 Don't Give Up: Not Ready to Die
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 39 reviews2021
Dev: Delta Arcade
Windows
How would you react when facing a near-death experience? Despair? Perseverance? ... Maybe sorrow? Face your inner demons while trying to gather resources and keep your body alive in this run survival game as hard as life itself.
Why similar: Perma Death 17.9%, Survival 16.9%, Crafting 16%, Resource Management 13.9%, Difficult 13.3%
- #22 Last Float
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LapsaDev
Windows
Explore and survive in this shattered world. Build, defend, and repair your raft. Search for secrets and uncover information about what happened - and most importantly, don't drown!
Why similar: Survival 25.5%, Crafting 20.8%, Base Building 18%, Sandbox 13.6%, Exploration 9.7%
- #23 Sandustry
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,449 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Base Building 17.7%, Crafting 14.8%, Survival 13.9%, Building 13.7%, Resource Management 12.8%
- #24 Speck Miner
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Emeral
Windows
Speck Miner is a small, open-world survival game set in a universe of tiny, procedurally generated planets.
Why similar: Base Building 24.1%, Survival 22.7%, Crafting 17.3%, Resource Management 16%, Building 8.6%
- #25 Signalfall
80% matchMixed63% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: Fallen Relay
Windows
Crash-land on a hostile planet and build automated extraction outposts to survive. Defend your operations, manage power networks, and send resources to orbit to unlock new technologies.
Why similar: Base Building 20.3%, Survival 19.3%, Crafting 17.6%, Building 16.1%, Exploration 8.3%
- #26 Rocks Tools Hordes
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Neural Monkeys
Windows · Mac
Rocks, Tools, Hordes is a survival crafting game where a brave little girl explores vast caves, builds her base, and battles endless zombie waves. Play the Demo! Add to Wishlist! Mine resources, craft gear, and pilot powerful robots to withstand the horde. Robots, rocks, and really rude zombies.
Why similar: Survival 22.8%, Base Building 16.9%, Building 15.3%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #27 Prospector
78% 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: Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 14.7%, Crafting 13.2%, Building 13%, Survival 11.8%
- #28 Tide Fall
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lone Badger Studio Pub: Lone Badger Studio
Windows
Explore dangerous islands, build and defend your base, sail the seas, and raid rival crews in this open-world pirate survival game.
Why similar: Base Building 20.3%, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 15.4%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 11.1%
- #29 Casualties: Unknown
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: OrsoniksPub: Oro Interactive
Windows
Casualties: Unknown is an unforgiving cave-exploration survival simulator. Your captors have tasked you with retrieving lost cargo on a foreign planet, explore its 11 layers and do your best to survive diverse hostile environments. You are just one of the thousands of test subjects sent to die.
Why similar: Survival 22.6%, Perma Death 18.9%, Difficult 15.7%, Crafting 13.6%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #30 The Maker Way
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Brave Games Inc.
Windows
Build creative machines, rovers, drones or robots. Use them to gather resources, discover new machine parts, source energy, construct bases and battle enemy factions in a physics-based open world.
Why similar: Base Building 22.2%, Crafting 18.3%, Building 14.3%, Survival 13.6%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #31 Bad Pig House
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team GZ
Windows
Build your house. Survive the night. Don't let the Big Bad Wolf blow everything away.
Why similar: Base Building 23.6%, Survival 19.5%, Crafting 17.6%, Building 15.2%, Exploration 6.3%
- #32 Forgotten Grounds
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TTG Games
Windows
Forgotten Grounds is a top-down pixel-art survival game where daylight is deadly. Scavenge, craft, and manage your needs while searching for shelter, safer weather, and another night to survive.
Why similar: Survival 23.9%, Perma Death 22.5%, Resource Management 19.6%, Crafting 13%, Exploration 10.5%
- #33 Resilience
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Samskara Games
Windows
Come face to face with the dangers that await your crew on a distant planet with extreme temperature conditions. Gather resources, explore, defend against aggressive flora and fauna, develop technologies to survive and leave the planet.
Why similar: Base Building 20.1%, Survival 17.4%, Crafting 16%, Resource Management 14.6%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #34 Rafting Factory
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kim Star Game
Windows
Gather resources, research technologies, expand platforms, and build conveyor belt networks to survive and thrive in a perilous maritime world. Utilize automated production lines to free up manual labor, keep the factory running continuously, and ultimately build a starship to travel to Mars.
Why similar: Base Building 26.3%, Resource Management 17.6%, Survival 13.8%, Strategy 13.4%, Building 11.3%
- #35 Vilset
76% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Base Building 21.7%, Building 17.2%, Survival 16.9%, Crafting 15.3%, Resource Management 11.6%
- #36 Dinosaur World
74% matchMixed62% of 171 reviews2025
Dev: Dinosaur StudioPub: CoolRabbit Games
Windows
Dinosaur World is a survival game about dinosaurs.
Why similar: Base Building 39.6%, Survival 31.3%, Building 28.4%, Indie 0.4%, Adventure 0.4%
- #37 PoliPlanet
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Base Building 21.2%, Resource Management 15.8%, Crafting 15.2%, Building 13.3%, Survival 9.5%
- #38 The Last Haven
73% matchMixed61% of 1,535 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Base Building 30.2%, Survival 15.8%, Strategy 15%, Resource Management 10.5%, Building 9.7%
- #39 Lunara: Planet IX
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 24 reviews2024
Dev: Luamar Games
Windows
Build and explore in Planet IX, a vibrant 2D pixel art simulation game where you create a colony on a mysterious planet, face monsters, and uncover secrets while managing resources and oxygen.
Why similar: Survival 16.5%, Crafting 15.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Dungeon Crawler 13.3%, Building 13.1%
- #40 SeaColony
70% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: Emindev
Windows
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: Base Building 22.6%, Survival 17.1%, Resource Management 14.4%, Crafting 13.9%, Building 12.6%
- #41 Edge Of Survival
72% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Studio Builderline
Windows
Escape to a relaxing, survival sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your base into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, hunting, cooking, and growing your own food.
Why similar: Base Building 23.1%, Survival 20.4%, Crafting 18.4%, Building 16.3%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #42 OUT OF BOUNDS
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DIGITALDEV
Windows
OUT OF BOUNDS is a survival sandbox game set in the Backrooms universe. Explore, gather resources, craft weapons and components, fight enemies and build a base to survive while you try to escape the endless hellscape you're now stuck inside of.
Why similar: Base Building 23.6%, Survival 23%, Sandbox 12.8%, Survival Horror 10.9%, Exploration 10.1%
- #43 Bandit the game
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 47 reviews2019
Dev: Adrian Ubiorski
Windows
Bandit the game is an open-world RPG with unique quests, character development, intense combat and interesting exploration. With optional elements: tower defense, city/base building and gang management.
Why similar: Base Building 22%, Survival 18%, Crafting 13%, Building 12.5%, Resource Management 11.5%
- #44 ENDGAME: Survival
72% matchMixed45% of 40 reviews2023
Dev: AGames
Windows
Big group of people will be dropped into a deserted island where they will have to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 25%, Survival 20.6%, Crafting 18.8%, Building 17.1%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #45 Alien Planet Survival
71% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Yamate
Windows
You drift in space, land on a random planet, collect materials, survive, develop civilization technology, conquer more planets, idle automation factory game
Why similar: Base Building 24.5%, Survival 18.4%, Crafting 17.6%, Resource Management 17%, Building 14%
- #46 Resonurgy
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Manafold Studio
Windows
Explore a technomagical world, scan matter, uncover its hidden principles, and build automated production lines. Route physical items and alchemical essences, conduct hands-on research, and control the Dissonance created by your growing factory.
Why similar: Strategy 16.4%, Survival 13.4%, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 11.7%
- #47 Reprocessed
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Macrostructura
Windows
Factory management and sandbox base building in zero-g environment. Survive, expand and then dominate space industrial market. Build large scale resource processing plant completely from nothing.
Why similar: Base Building 22.4%, Resource Management 16.8%, Building 14.7%, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 13.6%
- #48 Ratopia
67% matchVery Positive88% of 4,853 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Base Building 20.5%, Building 16.2%, Survival 15.5%, Difficult 13%, Resource Management 11.8%
- #49 Project Tomorrow
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Advance Nine
Windows
A base-building survival game with terraforming and crafting. Earth lies poisoned and abandoned ten thousand years after invasion. Awaken from stasis, defend your fragile foothold, and restore a dead world so humanity can live here again.
Why similar: Base Building 25.6%, Survival 18.5%, Crafting 16.2%, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 9.1%
- #50 Miniland Adventure: Prologue
69% matchVery Positive87% of 721 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Miniland: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full game. Your task is to build your world and fight against your enemies. The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself!
Why similar: Base Building 20%, Survival 17.5%, Crafting 14.6%, Building 13%, Resource Management 11.9%
- #51 Sacrifice of The Spirit
71% matchMixed44% of 16 reviews2022
Dev: Luiz Felipe Da Silva MarianPub: MushRoom Angels games
Windows
A fugitive hunter made a terrible mistake by taking the life of a pureblood animal, but Mother Nature didn't let it go, the forest spirits punished him. Now he will brutally fight for survival in a cursed indigenous forest. Are you able to survive?
Why similar: Base Building 21%, Survival 17.7%, Crafting 16.8%, Building 15%, Resource Management 13%
- #52 Whisper of the Swallows
67% matchVery Positive86% of 191 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Base Building 17.2%, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 16.1%, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 10%
- #53 Pathless Woods
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,110 reviews2024
Dev: AniYa Games Studio
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Why similar: Base Building 18.7%, Crafting 16.8%, Survival 16.5%, Building 13.8%, Resource Management 11.4%
- #54 Alterworld
69% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: Poonpoonza
Windows
Explore the infinite world! Play with the fully destructible voxel terrain! Craft and split items! Build and customize a house or any building! And many more! This is the ultimate sandbox survival game where you can do almost anything you can dream!
Why similar: Base Building 16.6%, Building 15.7%, Sandbox 15.6%, Crafting 15.5%, Survival 14.6%
- #55 No Way Back: Dark Horizon
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: BlackMountainsStudio
Windows
Your son is counting on you, alone on an island crawling with creatures that stir in the dark. Feed him, build shelter, gather resources and hunt to survive. The days are barely safe, but when night falls the real horror begins and staying alive becomes a nightmare.
Why similar: Survival 18.6%, Crafting 15.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 14.1%, Thriller 11.2%
- #56 Steamwrecked
65% matchMixed64% of 42 reviews2026
Dev: sTeam
Windows
Ascend the skies and escape the hot desert caused by humanity's over usage of fossil fuels. Find blueprints, scavenge and craft items to build your airship to soar the skies up to society once more. Can you survive this tragedy or fall prey to the harsh nature of this decaying world?
Why similar: Survival 27.8%, Sandbox 18.8%, Crafting 15.1%, Building 14.9%, Exploration 10.5%
- #57 Ruins of Majika
67% matchMixed67% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: Ariel EstipularPub: Gears2Game
Windows
Strategically build impenetrable towers & defenses, to endure the endless foes that emerge in the shroud of night. Each passing day is an opportunity to grow stronger. so take what you need from the environment. Gather, Craft, Survive, Defend, Thrive!
Why similar: Base Building 25.4%, Survival 18.8%, Crafting 15.1%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #58 AstroPlanet
66% matchMixed67% of 43 reviews2025
Dev: VIVA
Windows
AstroPlanet is a sandbox game where you find yourself in the role of an astronaut whose ship has crashed on a planet with an inhospitable atmosphere. Your task is not only to survive, but also to turn this world into a habitable place.
Why similar: Base Building 23.5%, Crafting 18.5%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 12.5%, Resource Management 10%
- #59 The Forest of Black Eden
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ZEREF
Windows
Stranded on an island crawling with terrifying creatures, you must survive, build, and uncover its dark secrets. Escape or be one of them with lost dream.
Why similar: Base Building 21.8%, Survival 19%, Crafting 15.9%, Building 13.2%, Survival Horror 8.7%