Games Like Darkout

You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...

Why similar: Sandbox 43.1%, Crafting 21.1%, Survival 17.4%, Sci-fi 5.6%, Adventure 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi focused 2D sandbox that emphasizes space travel, alien planet exploration, and survival mechanics.

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: Sandbox 39.4%, Crafting 26.3%, Survival 24.6%, Action 3%, Indie 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival game where you must build defenses and craft technology to survive nightly waves of hostile alien creatures.

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

Why similar: Sandbox 43.2%, Crafting 21.9%, Survival 19.8%, Adventure 4.8%, Platformer 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential 2D sandbox survival game that shares the core exploration, crafting, and base-building loops found in Darkout.

Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.

Why similar: Sandbox 35.2%, Crafting 21%, Survival 16.8%, Sci-fi 8%, Adventure 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi 2D survival game that focuses on exploration, crafting, and combat against alien threats.

Dive into an epic adventure alone or with friends! Explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame fearsome monsters, build and defend your village. Craft powerful weapons, master magical spells, and transform an planet into the cradle of a new civilization!

Why similar: Sandbox 41.5%, Crafting 27.2%, Side Scroller 10%, Platformer 8.9%, Adventure 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep 2D sandbox mechanics with a heavy emphasis on crafting, combat, and exploration in a sci-fi setting.

Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

Why similar: Sandbox 35.8%, Crafting 27.1%, Survival 21.2%, Action 5.2%, Adventure 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival sandbox that captures the same sense of discovery and resource management in a dangerous, procedurally generated world.

Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.

Why similar: Sandbox 40.6%, Crafting 18.4%, Survival 11.3%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Adventure 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D sci-fi sandbox survival game that tasks players with surviving on a hostile, procedurally generated alien world.

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 40.2%, Survival 21.9%, Sci-fi 14%, Crafting 11.7%, Adventure 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world sandbox survival game that features deep crafting, base building, and exploration on a dangerous planet.

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Why similar: Survival 36.7%, Sandbox 28.6%, Crafting 25.4%, Adventure 4.8%, Indie 4%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the critical light-versus-dark survival mechanic that forces players to manage their environment to avoid nocturnal threats.

As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?

Why similar: Sandbox 56.5%, Survival 39.6%, 2D 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D crafting and survival game that progresses from primitive tools to advanced sci-fi technology on a mysterious planet.

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: Sandbox 38.1%, Crafting 26%, Survival 20.5%, Adventure 5.3%, Indie 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox survival game that focuses on base building, crafting, and managing settlements in a dangerous world.

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: Sandbox 34.2%, Survival 21%, Crafting 20.2%, Sci-fi 13.4%, Adventure 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that emphasizes resource management and crafting while navigating a hazardous space environment.

Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!

Why similar: Sandbox 39.1%, Crafting 23.8%, Survival 19.9%, Adventure 6.2%, Action 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox game that emphasizes exploration, farming, and crafting within a vast, procedurally generated world.

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Sandbox 43%, Crafting 33.8%, Survival 18%, Indie 2.6%, Adventure 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines sandbox exploration with base building and survival, requiring you to manage a group of dwarves in a dangerous environment.

You have crash-landed on Notrium. Your food supplies are running low, and a pack of predatory aliens have your scent. You're out of bullets for your pistol, your only weapon a handful of rocks. A freezing night is setting in, and you are desperately looking for firewood. Can you survive?

Why similar: Crafting 37.3%, Survival 28.5%, Sci-fi 11.5%, Action 8.2%, Adventure 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game that focuses on crafting and resource management while stranded on an alien planet.

You are the lone survivor orbiting a potential new home planet, tethered to what’s left of your ship. Gather nearby debris and assemble a make-shift vessel in an attempt to survive the harsh realities of space. Maybe you'll live long enough to uncover the truth behind the ship's malfunction...

Why similar: Sandbox 31.3%, Crafting 31.3%, Survival 23.1%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Adventure 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed survival game that focuses on crafting and base building to stay alive in a hostile environment.

Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.

Why similar: Sandbox 32.1%, Crafting 27.9%, Survival 20.9%, Sci-fi 11%, Adventure 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that centers on scavenging, crafting, and base building in the vacuum of space.

While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!

Why similar: Crafting 31.9%, Survival 27.3%, Sandbox 24.6%, Sci-fi 7.4%, Adventure 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes crafting and exploration in a dangerous, alien-inspired environment.

Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!

Why similar: Sandbox 31.4%, Crafting 26.5%, Survival 19.3%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Action 5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game focused on base building and resource management within a harsh, sci-fi space setting.

Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!

Why similar: Sandbox 28.5%, Crafting 28%, Survival 26%, Adventure 7.1%, Action 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival sandbox game that emphasizes crafting, exploration, and managing needs in a dangerous, pixel-art world.

BLASTRONAUT is a mining game in a procedural alien world. Explore, extract and profit.

Why similar: Sandbox 44.1%, Crafting 24.1%, Survival 18.9%, Action 5.6%, Adventure 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi mining and exploration game that emphasizes resource gathering and survival in a procedurally generated world.

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: Sandbox 34.4%, Survival 27.6%, Crafting 22.1%, Sci-fi 7.6%, Adventure 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi open-world survival game that centers on exploration, base building, and combat against alien threats.

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Sandbox 32.6%, Crafting 25.6%, Survival 19.7%, Sci-fi 13%, Adventure 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused game that emphasizes base building and resource management in an open-world setting.

Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.

Why similar: Survival 32.9%, Sandbox 28.2%, Crafting 22.6%, Sci-fi 8.5%, Action 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that focuses on gathering resources and building bases in a hostile alien world.

You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.

Why similar: Sandbox 29.5%, Crafting 28.9%, Survival 26.1%, Sci-fi 5.5%, Adventure 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that tasks players with managing resources and crafting while drifting through space.

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: Survival 33.9%, Crafting 32.2%, Sandbox 24.1%, Adventure 3.8%, Action 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival sandbox game that emphasizes crafting and building, though set in a more terrestrial environment.

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: Sandbox 35.3%, Crafting 21.8%, Survival 19.6%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Adventure 5%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that focuses on base building and exploration within an alien-themed environment.

A single player open world sandbox, crafting and survival FPS game set in a multi-island land where you'll fight to survive. Build your base, hunt and craft to defend yourself from aggressive wildlife, enemies or friends. Do you have what it takes to Hold Your Own?

Why similar: Sandbox 30.5%, Crafting 30.3%, Survival 23.3%, Action 5.8%, Adventure 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: An indie survival game that focuses on crafting and building defenses against hostile enemies.

Asteria is a fast paced indie platformer, wrapped up in a sandbox sci-fi world where everything is destructible, mineable, collectable, craftable and creatable.

Why similar: Sandbox 38.5%, Crafting 23%, Platformer 11.9%, Indie 9.4%, Adventure 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D sci-fi sandbox platformer that focuses on mining, crafting, and survival in a hostile environment.

Investigate a starship crash, explore a hostile world, build shelters and survive nightly attacks of the Rot. Tear down any structure and experience total freedom of action.

Why similar: Sandbox 38.9%, Crafting 26.7%, Survival 23.1%, Adventure 4.8%, Action 3.3%

This is a 2D crafting survival sandbox game. You will be able to explore a huge 2D side-view world, building houses, crafting tools, weapons and armour from the resources you collect. There is a day/night cycle and each night many dangerous monsters can be found and defeated.

Why similar: Sandbox 53.1%, Survival 13.4%, Adventure 11.2%, Action 11.1%, Indie 8.8%

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: Sandbox 45.6%, Crafting 21.4%, Survival 17.2%, Sci-fi 7.3%, Adventure 4.4%

Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.

Why similar: Sandbox 30.1%, Crafting 29.5%, Survival 25.5%, Sci-fi 14.9%

Sparks Dimension is an independent sandbox game where you can build your own base on this alien Planet, design and manufacture your own vehicles and Aircraft, and even use your own spliced weapons to fight wild monsters

Why similar: Sandbox 48.8%, Survival 29.9%, Adventure 11.9%, Indie 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: An indie survival sandbox that tasks players with exploring and crafting in a procedurally generated world.

Stranded on a hostile and deadly planet, you must gather resources, build shelter, and fight to survive each night. But the secrets of this world await in a gripping sci-fi survival PvP game.

Why similar: Crafting 38%, Survival 34%, Sci-fi 20.7%, Action 7.3%

Survive in a harsh and dangerous world after an alien invasion. Gather resources, craft equipment, fight mutants and massive monsters, use weapons, vehicles and robots, explore territories, defend strongholds and fight for survival.

Why similar: Sandbox 38.5%, Crafting 28%, Survival 21.2%, Adventure 6.2%, Action 6.1%

Echo of the Wilds is a puzzly narrativy adventure, featuring randomised wilderness survival. Explore and survive this mysterious tale of wilds. Gather resources to build gear and sustain yourself, learning new skills, lore and the intertwining interactions between the various areas, seasons, and weather.

Why similar: Sandbox 35.7%, Crafting 29.3%, Survival 23.6%, Adventure 5.8%, Indie 3.8%

Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

Why similar: Sandbox 29.7%, Crafting 28.6%, Survival 22.9%, Sci-fi 14.6%, Adventure 4.2%

Brave a savage and unforgiving procedurally-generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark are your greatest enemies. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to transform a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.

Why similar: Sandbox 38%, Crafting 28.7%, Survival 22.1%, Action 4.5%, Adventure 4.3%

Help clueless Bob survive his first day of work in this procedurally generated, planet hopping, gravity simulator. Haul loot and resources back in to orbit while simultaneously fighting off a full scale alien invasion in this rogue-lite survival hybrid quite unlike anything you've played before.

Why similar: Sandbox 34%, Crafting 23.8%, Survival 21%, Side Scroller 9.7%, Adventure 4.7%

You’ll see an unexplored world full of dangers, mysteries and adventures. You will explore randomly generated planets, develop industry, conduct trade, plant colonies, explore outer space.

Why similar: Sandbox 47.2%, Survival 35.7%, Action 9.3%, Indie 7.8%

You have crash-landed into a mini-verse of tiny planets. Welcome to Minicology! Embark on an interstellar survival sandbox journey. Use your crafting, combat, and automation skills to survive the many challenges this mini-verse throws at you.

Why similar: Sandbox 36.1%, Crafting 26.8%, Survival 20.6%, Platformer 8.7%, Adventure 5.5%

Alone in space, light years away from your family, armed with only your Fistcannon™; you are Cargo Corps' latest recruit, a Cargo Commander.

Why similar: Sci-fi 31.9%, Platformer 25.8%, Survival 19.1%, Action 11.8%, Indie 11.4%

Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.

Why similar: Sandbox 31.8%, Crafting 25.5%, Survival 20.1%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Adventure 4.9%

Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.

Why similar: Sandbox 30.6%, Crafting 26.9%, Survival 21.3%, Sci-fi 12.6%, Adventure 4.7%

A fiercely formidable sci-fi survival game, set on a hostile alien world that wants you dead! Alone, or with a crew, do you have what it takes to survive?

Why similar: Crafting 34.1%, Survival 30.3%, Sci-fi 14.9%, Adventure 8.7%, Indie 6.1%

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: Survival 30.3%, Crafting 20.4%, Sandbox 18.5%, Adventure 9%, Action 8.6%

⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.

Why similar: Sandbox 37.2%, Crafting 30.3%, Survival 23.2%, Adventure 4.7%, Action 4.6%

Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.

Why similar: Sandbox 32.4%, Crafting 28.7%, Survival 23.9%, Sci-fi 15%

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: Sandbox 31%, Crafting 28.3%, Survival 23.4%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Adventure 4.5%

TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment

Why similar: Sandbox 37.8%, Crafting 28.7%, Survival 21.1%, Sci-fi 7.7%, Adventure 4.8%

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

Why similar: Sandbox 36.5%, Crafting 30.4%, Survival 18.8%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Adventure 4.9%

Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.

Why similar: Sandbox 41.3%, Crafting 29.6%, Survival 23.1%, Action 6%

Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.

Why similar: Sandbox 42.8%, Survival 25%, Crafting 23.9%, Action 4.5%, Adventure 3.8%

Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.

Why similar: Sandbox 34.1%, Crafting 29.8%, Survival 22.9%, Adventure 5.2%, Action 4.9%