Games Like Dig or Die

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: Open World Survival Craft 44.7% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar 2D sci-fi survival experience with deep exploration across multiple planets and base-building mechanics.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.9% ★, Sandbox 14.9%, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential 2D sandbox survival game that shares the core loop of mining, crafting, and defending your base from waves of enemies.

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.5% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 6%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that emphasizes base building, boss progression, and defending your settlement from raids.

Lumencraft is a unique combination of a top-down, rogue-like shooter and base building with tower defense elements. Dig and light up dark halls of a fully destructible environment on procedurally generated maps and campaign levels to find precious Lumen - humanity's only chance for survival.

Why similar: Sandbox 27.5%, Survival 21.3%, Tower Defense 18.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Strategy 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features destructible terrain and physics-based mining combined with tower defense elements that feel very similar to Dig or Die.

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 24.1%, Survival 22%, Open World 12.8%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox survival game that features complex crafting, base building, and combat against hostile alien life.

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: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Sandbox 12%, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on mining, crafting, and base-building in a dangerous, mysterious underground world with strong progression.

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 10%, Open World 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features mobile base-building and survival where you must defend your ship against environmental threats and enemy attacks.

Brace yourself for a brand new action-packed Open World. Explore a huge world to gather materials for gear and defenses. Use everything at your disposal to defend your bases and defeat hordes of hostile monsters. Play solo or up to 8-player online!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Tower Defense 13.2%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on tower defense mechanics within an open-world survival setting, requiring players to fortify their positions.

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 23.7%, Crafting 23.5%, Survival 16.6%, Building 11.8%, Open World 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines sandbox building with tower defense mechanics as you manage a group of dwarves defending against waves of monsters.

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: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Survival 24.6%, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a challenging survival experience with a focus on resource management and base fortification against a hostile environment.

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: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Survival 15.1%, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 9.2%, Base Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: A progression-focused survival game where you build up your technology and base to survive on a hostile planet.

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 25.2%, Crafting 20.9%, Open World 12.9%, Building 9.2%, Multiplayer 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox game with deep combat, creature taming, and extensive building options similar to the seed game.

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: Open World Survival Craft 36.4% ★, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival and crafting game with a strong focus on combat and exploration on an alien planet.

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Tower Defense 22.6%, Base Building 18.2%, Sandbox 17.8%, Survival 8.7%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Blends resource management and tower defense on a hostile planet, requiring smart base layout to survive enemy waves.

You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.5% ★, Survival 17%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Open World 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that emphasizes crafting and environmental interaction in a hostile, isolated setting.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Sandbox 20.9%, Crafting 18.2%, Base Building 17.1%, Survival 13.6%, Open World 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on automation, the core gameplay involves building a base and defending it against waves of hostile aliens.

Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.4% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival game that features building, exploration, and combat against various threats.

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: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 4.9%

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

Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.8% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 10.2%, Open World 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and crafting with a focus on base building and exploration in a challenging environment.

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.8% ★, Survival 16.4%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 6.6%, Sandbox 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that focuses on crafting and base building while managing resources in a hostile environment.

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...

Why similar: Tower Defense 34.2%, Survival 20.5%, Strategy 11.9%, Co-op 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical tower defense and survival game set in a hostile sci-fi environment where base management is key to survival.

GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.9% ★, Survival 14.6%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes base building and resource gathering on a hostile alien planet.

The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.6% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 8.8%, Base Building 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival game focused on resource gathering, crafting, and expanding your base in a vibrant world.

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.3%, Survival 21.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 12.3%, Co-op 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling strategy game where base defense against nightly waves of enemies is the primary gameplay loop.

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: Open World Survival Craft 49% ★, Survival 15.8%, Crafting 8.2%, Sandbox 8.1%, Open World 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game with a focus on base building and combat against dangerous alien wildlife.

An action-adventure roguelike with a bit of RPG tossed in. Adventure deep into the UnderMine and discover powerful relics, deadly enemies, hidden secrets, and a few friends to help along the way.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 31.1%, RPG 19.2%, 2D 16%, Action 12.5%, Indie 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: An action-adventure game with mining and survival elements that captures the feel of exploring dangerous depths.

The ultimate block building game.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.4% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Survival 8.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based building and survival game that offers extensive freedom in how you fortify your surroundings.

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 41.1%, Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 6.6%, Open World 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on managing a base and surviving in a hostile, resource-scarce environment with a high emphasis on defense.

WindForge is a side-scrolling block-building game where you explore hostile skies in an ever-changing Steampunk world. Everything you see can be created or destroyed, creating an RPG without barriers that rewards creative problem solving and improvisation.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.8% ★, Sandbox 17.1%, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 6%, Open World 6%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D exploration and building game that allows for complex construction and aerial combat.

FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.7% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 9.7%, Building 5.7%

TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Sandbox 15.6%, Crafting 11%, Survival 9%, Building 8.7%

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: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 9.5%, Tower Defense 7.6%

Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.5% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 8.3%

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 64.8% ★, Survival 23.2%, Crafting 2.8%, Sandbox 2.2%, Multiplayer 2.1%

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: Open World Survival Craft 45.1% ★, Sandbox 14.9%, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 4%

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: Open World Survival Craft 47.9% ★, Sandbox 16.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 7.7%, Open World 3.4%

Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic (and ridiculous) survival adventure. Will you manage to stay alive as you unravel the mysteries of Wrongworld and search for a way home?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52% ★, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 6.1%

Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 10.3%, Open World 7.3%

You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.5% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 7.3%, Sandbox 6.4%

'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 10.6%, Tower Defense 9.3%

Explore a post-apocalyptic island, craft, build, tear down enemy bases, defend and nuke your rivals! Life's about surviving in this multiplayer game, no matter what it takes!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.2% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 12.6%, Base Building 7.1%, Open World 7.1%

Hostile Planet: Survival is a harsh adventure on an uncharted planet that full of danger and trials.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Survival 18%, Crafting 15.3%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 8.3%

Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 13.5%, Open World 7.7%, Base Building 7.5%

CrossWorlds: Escape is a hardcore game in which you will have to deploy all your skills to survive in a huge open world that is susceptible to changes in weather, seasons and various natural phenomena.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Survival 13.3%, Sandbox 13.2%, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 7.6%

Explore, craft, and survive in this Multiplayer RPG Platformer with permanent death! Featuring many Rogue-like elements, Magicite randomly generates each underground dungeon for you and your friends to delve deep into.

Why similar: Crafting 25.9%, Survival 18%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Co-op 9.8%, Sandbox 8.1%

Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Survival 19.7%, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 8.4%, Sandbox 7.3%

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: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 7.7%

Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.9% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Survival 11%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 6.7%

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Why similar: Survival 23.3%, Sandbox 16.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 9.8%

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: Open World Survival Craft 38.2% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 12.1%, Survival 10.5%, Base Building 7.7%

Progress with every slain monster, learn over 80 skills through talents, craft hundreds of items, and explore vast procedurally-generated worlds in this ever-expanding sandbox RPG!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.6% ★, Sandbox 15.5%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 9.2%, Open World 3.5%

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: Open World Survival Craft 43.7% ★, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 10.6%, Open World 8.9%

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

Why similar: Survival 32.5%, Crafting 26.4%, Sandbox 21.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%, RPG 3.6%

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: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Sandbox 13%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11.8%, Base Building 7.4%

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Survival 19.2%, Crafting 11%, Base Building 7.8%, Co-op 5.7%

Your avatar is a brave warrior who has fallen in battle. But instead of well-deserved peace in Asgard, his soul is trapped in the harsh world of Niffelheim. Survive in this hostile world, ransack the neighbor lands, explore dangerous dungeons and find your way to Valhalla

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Sandbox 12.9%, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 6.8%

The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.1% ★, Survival 18.8%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 6.6%, Open World 6.5%

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.2% ★, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 10.2%, Base Building 8.1%

The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Survival 22.9%, Crafting 14.8%, Sandbox 9.3%, Open World 8.2%