- #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 15.2%, Perma Death 15%, Crafting 13.4%, Resource Management 12.7%
- #2 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 19.3%, Base Building 17.7%, Building 13.7%, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #3 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 17.2%, Crafting 16.5%, Building 15%, Resource Management 12.6%
- #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 20.3%, Resource Management 16.3%, Crafting 15.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Strategy 12%
- #5 暴食海岛 Munchy Island
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: clownpiece
Windows
Play as a fennec fox in a survival adventure on an island packed with food! Keep your belly full as you explore the island, build defensive structures, and fend off relentless attacks from monsters of the deep.
Why similar: Base Building 23.8%, Survival 20.1%, Crafting 17%, Building 16.8%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #6 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 17.6%, Base Building 17.3%, Survival 16.5%, Sandbox 12.5%
- #7 Forlorn
93% 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 17.9%, Perma Death 15.7%, Survival 14.3%, Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.3%
- #8 Craft Hero - Prologue
92% matchVery Positive94% of 160 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 20.5%, Crafting 16.9%, Survival 13.7%, Building 12.4%, Dungeon Crawler 12.1%
- #9 Orbitaria
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team 237Pub: Dojo System
Windows
Build an orbital station, explore a dead star system, and bring life back to the stars. A survival and base-building game where you don't survive by hoarding resources, but by choosing what to save.
Why similar: Base Building 22.6%, Survival 16.6%, Resource Management 14.7%, Crafting 12.7%, Exploration 9.4%
- #10 Millennium Slumber
91% 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%, Crafting 19.5%, Survival 18.9%, Perma Death 16%, Building 13.2%
- #11 Cubits
90% 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 16.1%, Perma Death 15.9%, Crafting 14.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Difficult 10.1%
- #12 Craft Hero
89% matchVery Positive83% of 412 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 21.3%, Crafting 15.9%, Survival 15.6%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #13 Galaxy Scavengers
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Why similar: Base Building 25.8%, Survival 17.8%, Resource Management 15%, Building 10.3%, Strategy 10.2%
- #14 LANDLOCK Project Wild
88% 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 18.8%, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 14.1%, Building 13.1%, Difficult 11.5%
- #15 Tides of Despair
87% 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 23.8%, Survival 19.4%, Crafting 17.3%, Building 15.9%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #16 HORDE Survival
86% 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 17.5%, Crafting 16.3%, Resource Management 15.4%, Building 14.1%
- #17 Realmbound
85% 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 17.4%, Crafting 14.8%, Building 12.2%, Dungeon Crawler 10.7%
- #18 Sheltered
86% matchVery Positive82% of 6,286 reviews2016
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.7 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 28.5%, Base Building 27.5%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 8.3%, Crafting 7.6%
- #19 V2 Cucumber Scam
84% 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 17.9%, Strategy 15%, Dungeon Crawler 12.1%, Crafting 9.4%
- #20 Cannibal Island: Survival
84% 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 24.2%, Base Building 22.3%, Crafting 20.5%, Resource Management 18.6%, Sandbox 6.3%
- #21 Survival Time
83% 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 22.9%, Crafting 18.2%, Base Building 17%, Building 16.1%, Exploration 10.1%
- #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 25.7%, Crafting 20.8%, Base Building 17.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Exploration 9.7%
- #23 Don't Give Up: Not Ready to Die
82% 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 17%, Crafting 16%, Resource Management 13.5%, Difficult 13.5%
- #24 A Silent Desolation
81% 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 17.9%, Crafting 14.2%, Building 11.9%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #25 Speck Miner
81% 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 23%, Crafting 17.3%, Resource Management 15.6%, Building 8.6%
- #26 No Way Back: Dark Horizon
80% 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 16.1%, Thriller 15.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 13.8%, Resource Management 12.2%
- #27 Stranded Deep 2
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: North Beach Games
Windows
Survival is just the beginning. Stranded in a desert wilderness, an endless river is your only lifeline. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and build a floating home to brave the treacherous waters and scorching heat. Every bend brings new danger and deeper discoveries. How far will you go?
Why similar: Survival 25.9%, Base Building 22.6%, Crafting 18%, Sandbox 12.6%, Strategy 10.2%
- #28 Sandustry
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 15%, Survival 14.2%, Building 13.7%, Resource Management 12.2%
- #29 Signalfall
78% matchMixed60% of 20 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 19.5%, Crafting 17.6%, Building 16.1%, Exploration 8.4%
- #30 Rocks Tools Hordes
78% 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 23%, Base Building 16.8%, Building 15.3%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #31 Tide Fall
77% 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 16.2%, Crafting 15.4%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #32 Casualties: Unknown
77% 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 16%, Crafting 13.5%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #33 Prospector
76% 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 14.4%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 13.1%, Survival 12%
- #34 Bad Pig House
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team GZ
Windows
A CRAZY HORROR GAME INSPIRED BY “THE THREE LITTLE PIGS”! GATHER RESOURCES, BUILD BEFORE SUNSET, AND SURVIVE THE NIGHT WITH THE WOLF!
Why similar: Base Building 23.6%, Survival 19.5%, Crafting 17.5%, Building 15.2%, Exploration 6.3%
- #35 Forgotten Grounds
74% 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 24.2%, Perma Death 22.6%, Resource Management 19%, Crafting 13%, Exploration 10.6%
- #36 Rafting Factory
74% 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 17.2%, Survival 14%, Strategy 13.4%, Building 11.3%
- #37 Resilience
73% 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 17.6%, Crafting 16%, Resource Management 14.2%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #38 Dinosaur World
73% matchMixed62% of 176 reviews2025
Dev: Dinosaur StudioPub: CoolRabbit Games
Windows
Dinosaur World is a survival game about dinosaurs.
Why similar: Base Building 39.4%, Survival 31.5%, Building 28.4%, Adventure 0.4%, Indie 0.4%
- #39 PoliPlanet
73% 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 15.5%, Crafting 15.2%, Building 13.3%, Survival 9.6%
- #40 Vilset
75% 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 17%, Crafting 15.3%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #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%, Survival 20.6%, 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 23.5%, Survival 23.1%, Sandbox 12.8%, Survival Horror 11%, Exploration 10.2%
- #43 The Last Haven
72% matchMixed61% of 1,537 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 14.1 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 15.9%, Strategy 15%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 9.7%
- #44 Mayday: The Survival Island
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pequi studiosPub: indie.io
Windows
After a mysterious crash, you awaken alone on a strange island. Survive by hunting, farming, and crafting, then explore a vast archipelago filled with secrets, ancient ruins, and magical totems. Build your base, uncover the truth, and escape—if you can.
Why similar: Base Building 18.2%, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 14.6%, Building 13.3%, Resource Management 12.3%
- #45 Lunara: Planet IX
70% 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 16.6%, Crafting 15.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Dungeon Crawler 13.4%, Building 13.1%
- #46 SeaColony
68% matchMixed65% of 82 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 17.4%, Resource Management 14%, Crafting 13.9%, Building 12.6%
- #47 Resonurgy
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Manafold Studio
Windows
Build an automated factory where machinery meets alchemy. Explore a technomagical world, scan matter and extract its hidden principles. Connect production lines, assemble research circuits and contain the Dissonance your factory creates. Play solo or with friends.
Why similar: Strategy 16.3%, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 11.7%
- #48 ENDGAME: Survival
70% 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 24.9%, Survival 20.8%, Crafting 18.7%, Building 17.1%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #49 Whisper of the Swallows
67% matchVery Positive87% of 207 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 17.1%, Survival 16.9%, Crafting 16.1%, Building 14.2%, Sandbox 10%
- #50 Reprocessed
69% 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 16.4%, Building 14.8%, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 13.8%
- #51 Alien Planet Survival
70% 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 18.6%, Crafting 17.6%, Resource Management 16.6%, Building 14.1%
- #52 Bandit the game
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 48 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 18.1%, Crafting 13%, Building 12.5%, Resource Management 11.2%
- #53 Ratopia
66% matchVery Positive88% of 4,899 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 25.6 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 15.6%, Difficult 13.2%, Resource Management 11.5%
- #54 Project Tomorrow
68% 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 25.5%, Survival 18.6%, Crafting 16.2%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 9.1%
- #55 Pathless Woods
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,121 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 16.7%, Building 13.9%, Resource Management 11.1%
- #56 Alterworld
68% matchPositive92% of 12 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 15.4%, Survival 14.6%
- #57 Miniland Adventure: Prologue
67% 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 17.7%, Crafting 14.6%, Building 13.1%, Resource Management 11.6%
- #58 Sacrifice of The Spirit
69% 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 20.9%, Survival 17.8%, Crafting 16.8%, Building 15%, Resource Management 12.7%
- #59 Steamwrecked
65% matchMixed65% of 43 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 28%, Sandbox 18.8%, Crafting 15%, Building 14.9%, Exploration 10.6%