- #1 Exot
97% 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 17.5%, Survival 16.9%, Crafting 16.5%, Building 14.9%, Resource Management 13.4%
- #2 Survindust
96% 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 19.8%, Resource Management 17.2%, Crafting 15.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Strategy 12%
- #3 Everlost
96% 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 17.4%, Survival 16.3%, Sandbox 12.6%
- #4 Forlorn
95% 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 15.8%, Survival 14.2%, Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.4%
- #5 Craft Hero - Prologue
94% 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 17%, Survival 13.6%, Building 12.4%, Dungeon Crawler 12%
- #6 Cubits
94% 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 15%, Base Building 11.7%, Difficult 9.8%
- #7 Craft Hero
93% matchVery Positive83% of 399 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 16%, Survival 15.4%, Building 13.4%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #8 Galaxy Scavengers
92% 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 25.6%, Survival 17.3%, Resource Management 15.9%, Strategy 10.3%, Building 10.1%
- #9 HORDE Survival
91% 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 21.6%, Survival 17.1%, Resource Management 16.4%, Crafting 16.3%, Building 14%
- #10 Tides of Despair
91% 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 19.1%, Crafting 17.4%, Building 15.8%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #11 LANDLOCK Project Wild
90% 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 15.1%, Crafting 14.3%, Building 13.1%, Difficult 11.2%
- #12 Realmbound
89% 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 17.1%, Crafting 14.8%, Building 12.1%, Dungeon Crawler 10.5%
- #13 Sheltered
89% matchVery Positive82% of 6,241 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%, Base Building 27.5%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 8.3%, Crafting 7.6%
- #14 V2 Cucumber Scam
87% 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%, Building 17.7%, Strategy 15.1%, Dungeon Crawler 11.9%, Crafting 9.4%
- #15 Cannibal Island: Survival
88% matchMixed50% of 14 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 23.6%, Base Building 22.1%, Crafting 20.4%, Resource Management 19.7%, Sandbox 6.2%
- #16 Survival Time
86% 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 22.5%, Crafting 18.3%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 16%, Exploration 10%
- #17 A Silent Desolation
85% 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 19.2%, Survival 17.6%, Crafting 14.2%, Building 11.8%, Resource Management 11%
- #18 Don't Give Up: Not Ready to Die
86% 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 16.7%, Crafting 16.1%, Resource Management 14.5%, Difficult 13.1%
- #19 Last Float
84% 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 25.2%, Crafting 20.8%, Base Building 17.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Exploration 9.6%
- #20 Speck Miner
84% 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%, Survival 22.5%, Crafting 17.3%, Resource Management 16.6%, Building 8.6%
- #21 Rocks Tools Hordes
82% 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 22.7%, Base Building 16.9%, Building 15.3%, Crafting 13.9%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #22 Tide Fall
82% matchNo user reviews
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 15.9%, Crafting 15.4%, Building 12%, Resource Management 11.6%
- #23 Prospector
81% matchMostly Positive71% 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 18.6%, Resource Management 15.3%, Crafting 13.2%, Building 12.9%, Survival 11.7%
- #24 Before
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Symbol Door
Windows
Survive a brutal primal world on 100-player top-down PvP/PvE servers. Craft tools, found settlements, recruit survivors, specialize, and endure. Achieve mastery in Science, Faith, Culture, or Combat - and Dominate your rivals to Ascend in Glory.
Why similar: Base Building 18.3%, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 13.6%, Resource Management 12.2%, Building 9.6%
- #25 Project Tomorrow
80% 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 29%, Survival 18.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 9.1%, Strategy 8.9%
- #26 The Maker Way
79% 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 18.4%, Building 14.2%, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #27 Resilience
78% 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%, Survival 17.2%, Crafting 16%, Resource Management 15.1%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #28 PoliPlanet
78% 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%, Resource Management 16.4%, Crafting 15.2%, Building 13.1%, Survival 9.4%
- #29 Dinosaur World
77% matchMixed63% of 168 reviews2025
Dev: Dinosaur StudioPub: CoolRabbit Games
Windows
Dinosaur World is a survival game about dinosaurs.
Why similar: Base Building 39.7%, Survival 31.1%, Building 28.4%, Indie 0.4%, Adventure 0.4%
- #30 Vilset
79% 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 21.6%, Building 17.1%, Survival 16.7%, Crafting 15.3%, Resource Management 12.1%
- #31 The Last Haven
77% matchMixed61% of 1,529 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 30.1%, Survival 15.6%, Strategy 15.1%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 9.6%
- #32 Lunara: Planet IX
76% 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 16.3%, Crafting 15.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Dungeon Crawler 13.3%, Building 13%
- #33 Bandit the game
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 45 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 17.8%, Crafting 13%, Building 12.4%, Resource Management 12%
- #34 ENDGAME: Survival
75% 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 20.5%, Crafting 18.9%, Building 17%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #35 Edge Of Survival
74% 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 20.3%, Crafting 18.5%, Building 16.3%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #36 Sacrifice of The Spirit
75% matchMixed40% of 15 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 20.9%, Survival 17.5%, Crafting 16.8%, Building 14.9%, Resource Management 13.5%
- #37 Miniland Adventure: Prologue
73% 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 17.3%, Crafting 14.6%, Building 12.9%, Resource Management 12.4%
- #38 Alien Planet Survival
74% 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 24.3%, Survival 18.2%, Resource Management 17.6%, Crafting 17.5%, Building 13.9%
- #39 Reprocessed
73% 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 22.2%, Resource Management 17.4%, Building 14.6%, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 13.4%
- #40 Ratopia
71% matchVery Positive88% of 4,696 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 26.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 20.4%, Building 16.1%, Survival 15.4%, Difficult 12.8%, Resource Management 12.3%
- #41 OUT OF BOUNDS
73% 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 23.7%, Survival 22.9%, Sandbox 12.9%, Survival Horror 10.9%, Exploration 10.1%
- #42 Pathless Woods
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,102 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 18.6%, Crafting 16.7%, Survival 16.3%, Building 13.8%, Resource Management 11.8%
- #43 Casualties: Unknown
72% 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 23.3%, Perma Death 20.4%, Crafting 14.2%, Difficult 12.4%, Resource Management 11.4%
- #44 Alterworld
71% matchPositive90% of 10 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 16.7%, Sandbox 15.7%, Building 15.7%, Crafting 15.6%, Survival 14.5%
- #45 Whisper of the Swallows
69% matchVery Positive86% of 163 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 17.3%, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 16.3%, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 10%
- #46 AstroPlanet
70% 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 23.4%, Crafting 18.5%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 12.5%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #47 Broken World
70% matchMixed65% of 37 reviews2024
Dev: Hunt Studio
Windows
"Broken World" is an exciting post-apocalyptic low-poly game where players have to survive in a world overrun by zombies and chaos. Build and strengthen your shelters, fight various threats and explore a dangerous world full of secrets and dangers.
Why similar: Base Building 20.3%, Survival 20.2%, Crafting 16.5%, Building 15.1%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #48 Trapped in the Forest
71% match8 user reviews25% of 8 reviews2022
Dev: Ammonite Design Studios Ltd
Windows
You awake in a mysterious forest that seems strangely familiar. Have you been here before? Is this a dream or a nightmare? Trapped in the Forest is a surreal open world folk horror game.
Why similar: Base Building 18.1%, Survival 16.7%, Crafting 15.5%, Resource Management 12.2%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #49 Ruins of Majika
69% 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 18.6%, Crafting 15.1%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #50 Spiritura
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Spiritura Works
Windows · Mac
Spiritura is an open-world survival craft game with action combat and exploration. Follow the story to uncover the mysteries of the land as you forge your own path through survival, building, and discovery.
Why similar: Base Building 20.9%, Survival 17.3%, Crafting 16.5%, Resource Management 16.4%, Building 11%
- #51 Steamwrecked
67% matchMixed66% of 38 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 27.7%, Sandbox 18.9%, Crafting 15.2%, Building 14.9%, Exploration 10.5%
- #52 The Forest of Black Eden
68% 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 21.9%, Survival 18.9%, Crafting 16%, Building 13.2%, Survival Horror 8.7%
- #53 The Maze Survivor: The 9th Entrants
67% matchVery Positive90% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: 崔资坦独立游戏Triztan IndieGame
Windows
The Maze Survivor is a limited space survival game that uniquely combines the characteristics of survival, horror, puzzle solving and maze adventure games. Players will wake up in the center of a complex maze without any clues. Let's try to see if they can survive and escape from this strange maze.
Why similar: Base Building 15.4%, Survival 14.8%, Dungeon Crawler 12.4%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 11.5%
- #54 Nova Lands
67% matchVery Positive89% of 3,422 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Base Building 21%, Resource Management 14.1%, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 10.2%
- #55 SkyFab
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oltimo Games
Windows
Stranded on a floating island in the shadow of a mysterious cube planet, you must survive using only your wits and advanced engineering. Build intricate automation lines, manage power grids, and transform a single tree into a sprawling industrial space station. Will you find your way home?
Why similar: Base Building 28.2%, Resource Management 21.7%, Crafting 19.4%, Building 18%, Exploration 7.1%
- #56 Life in Bunker
70% matchMixed60% of 333 reviews2016
Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%
You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.
Why similar: Base Building 29%, Survival 26.9%, Strategy 14.2%, Sandbox 12.6%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #57 Satisfactory
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 28.7%, Crafting 16.5%, Resource Management 15%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 8%
- #58 Camping Simulator: The Squad
66% matchMixed58% of 1,083 reviews2025
Dev: CubeCube Sports Ltd.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Camping Simulator lets you experience what camp means by preparing your backpack wisely for challenging conditions of nature. You can play all the experiences with up to 8 friends in multiplayer mode or single player mode.
Why similar: Survival 19.7%, Crafting 17.9%, Resource Management 16.3%, Building 14.4%, Sandbox 11.2%