- #1 Luma Island
97% matchVery Positive84% of 12,744 reviews2024
Dev: Feel Free Games
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready to explore, farm, fish, mine, craft, and raise magical Lumas as you solve puzzles and embark on quests across Luma Island. Play solo, or team up with friends in 1-4 player online co-op. Choose relaxing Cozy, challenging Adventure, or epic Hero mode to match your mood and playstyle.
Why similar: Farming Sim 21.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Life Sim 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Co-op 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: This cozy exploration game combines farming, resource collection, crafting, property upgrades, and online co-op across varied islands.
- #2 My Time at Sandrock
96% matchVery Positive88% of 29,103 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 39.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
Why similar: Farming Sim 26%, Life Sim 21.6%, Building 12.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its desert frontier setting, gathering-and-crafting focus, town relationships, workshop progression, and multiplayer make it an especially close alternative to Dinkum.
- #3 Palia
95% matchVery Positive86% of 44,545 reviews2024
Dev: Singularity 6 Corporation
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Discover a welcoming world in Palia, a free-to-play fantasy life sim adventure where you can craft, explore, and create the life and home of your dreams. With nearly endless ways to make Palia your home, you’ll find relaxation and joy in every corner of this vibrant, heartwarming world.
Why similar: Farming Sim 22.6%, Life Sim 16.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 9.5%, Online Co-Op 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A welcoming multiplayer life sim centered on foraging, hunting, fishing, farming, home building, and developing relationships in a shared world.
- #4 Garden Paws
96% matchVery Positive90% of 2,498 reviews2018
Dev: Bitten Toast Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
You have inherited your grandparents farm as they set off to travel the world. Work with Frank at the local construction shop to finish off the final touches on your new home. Aid Frank and Mayor Wilson in building up the town so it may reach it's full potential.
Why similar: Agriculture 28.9% ★, Farming Sim 15.8%, Crafting 8.5%, Building 7.8%, Sandbox 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A colorful open-world shopkeeping and farming life sim with gathering, crafting, building, exploration, and a similarly relaxed small-town progression loop.
- #5 Coral Island
94% matchVery Positive89% of 27,716 reviews2023
Dev: Stairway GamesPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 56.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Coral Island is a vibrant, laid-back farm sim reimagined with multiplayer! Experience enchanting island life at your own pace: farm with friends, nurture animals, build relationships, hang out with a diverse cast of characters, and dive into the magical Merfolk Kingdom.
Why similar: Farming Sim 23.2%, Agriculture 22% ★, Life Sim 13.3%, Fishing 8.7% ★, Crafting 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A polished island-set farming and life sim with town restoration, fishing, mining, socializing, and an easygoing community-building feel.
- #6 Lightyear Frontier
94% matchVery Positive84% of 4,735 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Farming Sim 17.4%, Crafting 8.8%, Co-op 8.2%, Online Co-Op 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers peaceful open-world farming, resource gathering, customizable base building, and co-op, with a light survival-crafting structure.
- #7 Farm Together 2
93% matchVery Positive94% of 5,477 reviews2025
Dev: Milkstone Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 27.7 hrsMean: 139.2 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in the long awaited sequel to the cozy, relaxing farming experience!
Why similar: Agriculture 29.8% ★, Farming Sim 18.8%, Fishing 16.1% ★, Life Sim 11.3%, Sandbox 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A highly relaxing cooperative farming game focused on steadily expanding a customizable farm and sharing progress with other players.
- #8 Staxel
92% matchMostly Positive78% of 4,839 reviews2019
Dev: PlukitPub: Balor Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Grow your farm, meet the villagers, and join your friends online in building your world.
Why similar: Agriculture 29.9% ★, Farming Sim 21.4%, Sandbox 7.9%, Building 7.8%, Online Co-Op 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its blocky sandbox world supports farming, fishing, bug catching, building, village life, and multiplayer in a very Animal Crossing-like format.
- #9 My Time at Portia
91% matchVery Positive91% of 44,320 reviews2019
Dev: Pathea GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 36.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!
Why similar: Agriculture 22.3% ★, Farming Sim 22%, Life Sim 15%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A cheerful workshop life sim where you gather materials, craft commissions, farm, mine, fish, and help rebuild a growing town.
- #10 Sun Haven
91% matchVery Positive80% of 25,583 reviews2023
Dev: Pixel Sprout Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 31.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Build your farm and relationships with townsfolk, or forge ahead on a quest of magic, monsters, and dragons. Level up through a skill tree in 8 person multiplayer, or adventure solo!
Why similar: Farming Sim 24.2%, Agriculture 22.4% ★, Life Sim 12.7%, Fishing 11.3% ★, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its farming, gathering, crafting, relationship systems, fantasy exploration, and multiplayer provide a deeper RPG-flavored take on Dinkum's life-sim loop.
- #11 Len's Island
89% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,974 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.4% ★, Farming 30.3% ★, Building 8.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A more action-oriented but still cozy open-world survival-crafting game featuring farming, building, exploration, and optional co-op.
- #12 Farm Together
90% matchVery Positive94% of 22,123 reviews2018
Dev: Milkstone Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.1 hrsMean: 143.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in this unique, relaxing farming experience!
Why similar: Agriculture 39.9% ★, Farming Sim 15.9%, Online Co-Op 7.6%, Co-op 7.1%, Building 7%
Why You'll Like It: A low-pressure multiplayer farming sandbox built around planting, harvesting, decorating, and continually growing a shared property.
- #13 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
89% matchVery Positive92% of 8,103 reviews2019
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 46.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 59.9% ★, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 8.4%, Crafting 7%, RPG 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines gathering, farming, large-scale building, NPC settlement management, exploration, and co-op in a cheerful island adventure.
- #14 Critter Cove
87% matchVery Positive95% of 1,947 reviews2024
Dev: Gentleman Rat Studios
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A deep, open world life sim and town building game set in a cozy post-apocalyptic paradise. Restore your town, sail across a mysterious archipelago, rescue animal pals. Hunt for relics and farm, fish & craft everything you need. Can you help turn Critter Cove into a thriving tourist town once again?
Why similar: Farming Sim 25.1%, Fishing 24.8% ★, Life Sim 16.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Relaxing 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: An island community sim about restoring a harbor town, exploring nearby islands, collecting resources, fishing, crafting, and decorating.
- #15 Fae Farm
88% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,598 reviews2023
Dev: Phoenix LabsPub: Gambit Digital
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Escape to the magical life of your dreams in Fae Farm, a farm sim RPG for 1-4 players. Craft, cultivate, and decorate to grow your homestead, and use spells to explore the enchanted island of Azoria!
Why similar: Farming Sim 40.3%, Co-op 17.4%, Relaxing 11%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers cozy farming, crafting, fishing, home decoration, dungeon exploration, and co-op in a colorful magical village.
- #16 Roots of Pacha
86% matchVery Positive94% of 4,567 reviews2023
Dev: Soda Den
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.
Why similar: Agriculture 22.8% ★, Farming Sim 18.9%, Life Sim 11.3%, Crafting 8.3%, Online Co-Op 8%
Why You'll Like It: This cooperative farming life sim emphasizes communal village development, foraging, crafting inventions, and a warm prehistoric setting.
- #17 Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
86% matchVery Positive82% of 3,229 reviews2017
Dev: Prideful Sloth
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Unwind and enjoy the slow life in Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles, a relaxing open-world adventure game. Yonder is set in the world of Gemea. A natural island paradise with eight distinct environments ranging from tropical beaches to snow-capped summits.
Why similar: Agriculture 23% ★, Farming Sim 20.2%, Crafting 11.8%, Fishing 8.2% ★, Relaxing 8%
Why You'll Like It: A peaceful open-world adventure with farming, fishing, crafting, foraging, and community quests, without demanding combat or survival pressure.
- #18 Everdream Valley
85% matchMostly Positive70% of 971 reviews2023
Dev: MooneatersPub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A farming adventure with a dash of magic. Play solo or up to a 4-player coop. By day, restore your quaint farm into a summer paradise. Explore, raise crops, care for animals and rebuild your home. At night inhabit various creatures through your dreams and bring enchantment to the valley.
Why similar: Farming Sim 21.3%, Fishing 18.4% ★, Life Sim 12.4%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A lighthearted farm adventure with animal care, building, crafting, exploration, and multiplayer-friendly activities in a colorful rural world.
- #19 Kynseed
84% matchVery Positive83% of 3,904 reviews2022
Dev: PixelCount Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Embark on a lifetime of adventure in a beautiful world of creativity and intrigue. Raise a family, customise your farm, run a business, craft items, and battle some marvellously malevolent monsters.
Why similar: Farming Sim 26.5%, Life Sim 16.1%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 10.7%, Farming 10% ★
Why You'll Like It: Its deep village life, farming, crafting, exploration, shopkeeping, and generational progression suit players who enjoy building a long-term life in Dinkum.
- #20 Necesse
82% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 53.6% ★, Crafting 7.9%, Sandbox 7.4%, Co-op 6.9%, Building 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: It adds more combat and survival, but its procedurally generated exploration, farming, building, NPC settlement management, and co-op are a strong mechanical match.
- #21 Disney Dreamlight Valley
82% matchVery Positive92% of 24,933 reviews2023
Dev: Gameloft
Windows
Median: 32.4 hrsMean: 118.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Relax in a cozy world filled with the magic of Disney and Pixar! Discover rich stories and build the perfect Valley alongside more than 50 heroes and villains in this life-sim adventure game.
Why similar: Farming Sim 20.1%, Fishing 18.6% ★, Life Sim 17.5%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A polished cozy life sim centered on gathering, gardening, fishing, cooking, decorating, and restoring a community alongside familiar characters.
- #22 Littlewood
83% matchVery Positive93% of 6,833 reviews2020
Dev: Sean YoungPub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.
Why similar: Agriculture 27.4% ★, Farming Sim 13.1%, Life Sim 13%, Crafting 8.3%, Fishing 8% ★
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on rebuilding and customizing an entire town while farming, gathering resources, crafting, and befriending residents at a leisurely pace.
- #23 Hokko Life
84% matchMixed66% of 2,673 reviews2022
Dev: Wonderscope GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Hop off the train and into your new life in the village of Hokko! Take over the old workshop and get creative; use crafted materials and design everything in town! With complete creative freedom, what type of town will you build?
Why similar: Farming 20.6% ★, Agriculture 19.7% ★, Farming Sim 14.7%, Fishing 12% ★, Life Sim 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A peaceful village life sim with fishing, bug catching, farming, crafting, and especially extensive furniture and town customization.
- #24 Paleo Pines
81% matchVery Positive82% of 2,696 reviews2023
Dev: Italic PigPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Welcome to Paleo Pines, a charming island known for its friendly dinosaurs, quirky townsfolk, and mysterious past. Befriend dinos and enlist their help to fix up your ranch and farm crops to create your cozy dino sanctuary! Then set out with your companion, Lucky, to uncover the island’s secrets.
Why similar: Farming Sim 30%, Agriculture 29.4% ★, Life Sim 12.8%, Relaxing 9.3%, Exploration 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxed ranching adventure focused on growing crops, exploring wilderness, befriending dinosaurs, and making a personalized home.
- #25 Echoes of the Plum Grove
81% matchVery Positive88% of 3,146 reviews2024
Dev: Unwound GamesPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A new life awaits in Honeywood! Build a thriving community that will last generations in this cozy farm simulator. Farm, socialize, make friends, cook, craft, forage and uncover the secrets of the island! If someone doesn’t want to be friends? There are always other means.
Why similar: Farming Sim 39.3%, Life Sim 23.8%, Crafting 17.7%, Exploration 7.5%, Simulation 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A charming community life sim about farming, gathering, crafting, fishing, and shaping a homestead over multiple generations.
- #26 Snacko
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,051 reviews2025
Dev: Bluecurse StudiosPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Driven away by the cost of living, you and your childhood friend set off with the goal to turn things around and start a new life. Explore, gather, and build up the town from scratch into a place you'll be proud to call "home"!
Why similar: Fishing 22.8% ★, Farming Sim 19.6%, Life Sim 12.8%, Building 12%, Crafting 10%
Why You'll Like It: A cat-led island restoration life sim featuring farming, fishing, foraging, crafting, town rebuilding, and extensive decoration.
- #27 Wildmender
80% matchVery Positive84% of 2,245 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Agriculture 21.5% ★, Farming Sim 18.6%, Crafting 6.7%, Online Co-Op 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival-crafting game where you explore a harsh desert, establish a garden oasis, automate resources, and gradually restore the environment.
- #28 Immortal Life
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,370 reviews2024
Dev: YiFang StudioPub: 2P Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Embark on a magical journey in this captivating life simulation game. Escape to a welcoming valley, farm with spells, and master skills like fishing, crafting, and cooking. Engage in epic battles, strengthen the bonds with your companions, and build your dream home to achieve Immortal Life!
Why similar: Agriculture 27% ★, Farming Sim 18.3%, Fishing 16.6% ★, Life Sim 11.4%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Mixes farming, gathering, crafting, cooking, exploration, and restoring a community, with a distinct Chinese fantasy setting.
- #29 Solarpunk™
77% matchVery Positive81% of 4,581 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Farming 17.1% ★, Farming Sim 11.4%, Co-op 7%, Crafting 6.9%
- #30 Starsand Island
76% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,727 reviews2026
Dev: Seed Sparkle Lab
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 23.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Tired of the city grind? Escape to Starsand Island and embrace the simple joys of country life! Live alongside capybaras, cats, and dogs, reel in a big catch, and explore the enchanting Moonlit Forest. Leave the hustle behind and experience the charm of this seaside paradise.
Why similar: Farming Sim 26.4%, Life Sim 17.3%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10%
- #31 Song Of The Prairie
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,526 reviews2024
Dev: The Droplet StudioPub: AOE Plus
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 17.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Song of The Prairie is a 3D relaxing farm game. A hero who defeat the demon begins a new rural life. Experiencing the fun of exploration to the town. Harvesting giant fruits and crops. Taking care fantastic animals. Dating with someone you like. Just enjoy the farming life only belongs to you!
Why similar: Agriculture 25.3% ★, Farming 19% ★, Farming Sim 16.5%, Life Sim 10.4%, Crafting 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A 3D farming life sim with exploration, fishing, cooking, crafting, home building, animal care, and relationships with townsfolk.
- #32 Craftopia
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,264 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.9% ★, Crafting 15.9%, Sandbox 8.4%, Building 7.8%, Multiplayer 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A broad open-world crafting sandbox with farming, hunting, building, automation, dungeon exploration, and online co-op.
- #33 Farm to Table
75% matchVery Positive91% of 689 reviews2026
Dev: indieGiant
Windows
A farming & restaurant management sim with base building elements. Grow in backyard to cook & serve! Discover new recipes by exploring ingredients on the island; gather, fish, raise animals & produce with machines. Manage resources, hire staff & grow your organic business into a 5-star restaurant!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Agriculture 21.2% ★, Farming Sim 15.1%, Fishing 12.6% ★, Crafting 7%
- #34 Fields of Mistria
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 35,587 reviews2026
Dev: NPC Studio
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.1 hrsMean: 33.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Start your new life! Build the farm of your dreams as you discover a world brimming with possibilities. Magic, romance, and adventure all await you in this nostalgic farming / life sim RPG!
Why similar: Farming 23% ★, Farming Sim 20.7%, Agriculture 20.2% ★, Life Sim 11.2%, Crafting 5.2%
- #35 Aloft
76% matchVery Positive83% of 3,782 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Farming 21.7% ★, Agriculture 16.3% ★, Crafting 7.9%, Co-op 7.7%
- #36 Old Market Simulator
75% matchVery Positive88% of 5,425 reviews2024
Dev: Alcedo Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Old Market Simulator is a 1-4 player co-op game where you manage your market by ordering goods, growing produce, raising animals, fishing, and crafting items in your workshop, while hiring employees and expanding your business.
Why similar: Agriculture 27.8% ★, Farming 20.6% ★, Life Sim 16.4%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Co-op 8.4%
- #37 Spirit of the Island
77% matchMixed66% of 1,907 reviews2022
Dev: 1M Bits HordePub: META Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A beautiful Life Sim Sandbox RPG with Cross-Platform Online COOP set on a tropical Archipelago. Build your farm, grow crops and animals, craft various items, cook dishes, gather resources, build shops and museum to attract visitors, and turn a desolate Island into a prosperous tourist destination!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Agriculture 20.5% ★, Farming Sim 12.7%, Life Sim 8.2%, Crafting 6.4%
- #38 Cropia
74% matchVery Positive92% of 85 reviews2026
Dev: Cropstone Studio
Windows
Cultivate crops, care for animals, fish, mine resources, and explore diverse environments while growing the local community. Invite village residents to work with you and collaborate to meet city targets, helping you achieve goals more efficiently.
Why similar: Agriculture 24.4% ★, Farming 19.9% ★, Farming Sim 15.7%, Fishing 12.4% ★, Life Sim 9.9%
- #39 Tinkerlands
73% matchVery Positive86% of 4,122 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 43.2% ★, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Sandbox 8.8%, Crafting 8.3%, Co-op 8.2%
- #40 Core Keeper
70% matchVery Positive93% of 66,787 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 34.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 36.9% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Co-op 10.2%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #41 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
71% matchVery Positive84% of 4,696 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!
Why similar: Agriculture 22% ★, Open World Survival Craft 20.2% ★, Farming Sim 13.6%, Life Sim 8.4%, Crafting 6.9%
- #42 Moonstone Island
72% matchVery Positive84% of 5,087 reviews2023
Dev: Studio SupersoftPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Moonstone Island is a creature-collecting life-sim set in an open world with 100 islands to explore. Make friends, brew potions, collect Spirits, and test your strength in card-based encounters to complete your Alchemy training!
Why similar: Agriculture 28% ★, Farming Sim 17.5%, Fishing 15.1% ★, Life Sim 11.3%, Building 8%
- #43 Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 994 reviews2019
Dev: Alchemist InteractivePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Farm, cook, craft and decorate in this casual open world farming adventure! Set up camp with your crew after being shipwrecked on a mysterious archipelago. Your quest is to survive, explore and uncover the secrets of the Cursed Islands. Take care of your crew to build relationships and earn rewards!
Why similar: Agriculture 29.8% ★, Farming 26.1% ★, Farming Sim 17.9%, Crafting 7.7%, Relaxing 5.2%
- #44 The Ranchers
71% matchMixed58% of 661 reviews2026
Dev: The RanchersPub: Trophy Games Publishing ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Ranchers is an open world country-life sim for 1-4 players. Raise animals, grow tasty crops, craft helpful tools and build your dream house. Explore the open world and earn the villagers' respect and esteem.
Why similar: Agriculture 28.4% ★, Farming Sim 18.6%, Life Sim 11.5%, Crafting 7.8%, Building 6.8%
- #45 No Place Like Home
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 4,116 reviews2022
Dev: Chicken LauncherPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Humanity Trashed the Earth and left for Mars. Only few remained. EXPLORE the world. Clean the environment, CRAFT with recycled resources. Domesticate animals. Rebuild your village. Restore environment and run your own post-apo FARM as there is No Place Like Home!
Why similar: Agriculture 25.2% ★, Farming Sim 19.4%, Fishing 13.4% ★, Life Sim 11.2%, Crafting 9.4%
- #46 Forager
72% matchVery Positive89% of 44,137 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 46% ★, Farming Sim 13.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Agriculture 9.6% ★, Sandbox 5.5%
- #47 Gathera
70% matchVery Positive82% of 66 reviews2026
Dev: Catris Games
Windows
Gather, craft, build and explore alone or with up to 3 friends. Unlock new land, collect resources, build and decorate your home, farm, fish, automate production, upgrade your character, and defend against optional enemy raids.
Why similar: Agriculture 26.8% ★, Open World Survival Craft 22.9% ★, Farming Sim 15.8%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 7.2%
- #48 STORY OF SEASONS: Grand Bazaar
69% matchVery Positive94% of 4,088 reviews2025
Dev: Marvelous Inc.Pub: XSEED Games
Windows
Median: 18.5 hrsMean: 49.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Searching for a peaceful farm life, a fresh mountain breeze, and your own market stall? Look no further than the friendly community of Zephyr Town! Here you’ll grow crops and raise animals, get to know the locals, and sell your wares at the town's bazaar to restore it to its former glory.
Why similar: Agriculture 30.9% ★, Farming Sim 20%, Life Sim 12.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 8%
- #49 DYSMANTLE
71% matchVery Positive91% of 11,622 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Agriculture 32.8% ★, Fishing 21.4% ★, Crafting 17.1%, Sandbox 9.2%, RPG 5.7%
- #50 Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 48,660 reviews2023
Dev: Toxic DogPub: Excalibur Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Builder. Farmer. Hunter. Trader. Ranching certainly isn’t your average job. Think you have the skills to turn your family’s rundown homestead into the most prosperous ranch in the valley? Then it’s time to head out into the wilderness in this captivating single and multiplayer open-world simulator.
Why similar: Farming 32.7% ★, Farming Sim 20.9%, Co-op 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #51 Wonderia
68% matchVery Positive83% of 380 reviews2026
Dev: Rock&DashPub: IndieArk
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored. It's got sci-fi sim elements, deep dungeons, and you can even morph into alien form! Grab up to 7 friends to mine, craft, battle, and level—or farm and fish the day away, if that's more your tempo. There's so much to do!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.5% ★, Farming Sim 14.5%, Online Co-Op 9%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #52 Cornucopia®
70% matchVery Positive88% of 664 reviews2023
Dev: David DolynnyPub: Subconscious Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A cozy 2.5D farm-life RPG that runs deep. Grow living soil into legendary harvests, romance 34+ villagers, breed magical animals, cook, fish, and dive the dungeons below for loot. No forced bedtime, no stress, just your dream farm at your own pace.
Why similar: Agriculture 25.3% ★, Farming Sim 18.5%, Life Sim 10.8%, Fishing 9.6% ★, Crafting 7.4%
- #53 Stardew Valley
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,040,983 reviews2016
Dev: ConcernedApe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 23.0 hrsMean: 85.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Why similar: Agriculture 23% ★, Farming Sim 22.1%, Life Sim 12.8%, Crafting 6.2%, Fishing 6.1% ★
- #54 Outbound
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,188 reviews2026
Dev: Square Glade Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Explore a colorful world and build your own cozy home on wheels. Craft workstations, and source energy from the sun, wind, or water. Upgrade and customize your vehicle, grow crops, and live sustainably off-grid with up to 4 players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Farming 24.7% ★, Crafting 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Building 8%
- #55 Mirthwood
68% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,381 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Ridge GamesPub: V Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Embark on an enchanting journey and brave ferocious creatures in an immersive medieval fantasy world. Will you settle a new homestead to live a life of farming and trade, or pick up the sword and take up the adventurers' path?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Farming Sim 15.5%, Farming 13.5% ★, Fishing 12.8% ★, Life Sim 7.4%
- #56 Delverium
66% matchVery Positive85% of 157 reviews2026
Dev: Sagestone Games
Windows
Explore, Build, Farm, Craft and Fight in this survival sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Delve deep to uncover the secret of the invading 'Faults' and restore stability to the land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Farming Sim 17.8%, Crafting 7.8%, Sandbox 7.6%, Co-op 6.8%
- #57 Cozy Island
65% matchVery Positive92% of 2,661 reviews2025
Dev: LazyFish Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Go wild with your BFFS in your ultimate cozy getaway! Yank up hilariously plump veggies, reel in giant flappy fish, bump into adorable little animals, and unlock a bunch of weird and wonderful toys! If you feel like it, doing absolutely nothing on the beach is exactly what you're supposed to do!
Why similar: Farming Sim 29.2%, Life Sim 19.1%, Co-op 10.9%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Relaxing 9.3%
- #58 Longvinter
67% matchMixed67% of 7,713 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 45.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.9% ★, Crafting 14%, Sandbox 9.4%, Co-op 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #59 Everafter Falls
67% matchVery Positive84% of 739 reviews2024
Dev: SquareHuskyPub: Akupara Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Rediscover the simple life. Farm, fish, forge and fight to restore the peace in an all-new farming adventure. Features split-screen coop, a helpful pet, automated drones, resourceful pixies, a card-eating progression system, and dangerous dungeons to delve into!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.1% ★, Farming 17.8% ★, Farming Sim 16.8%, Fishing 11.9% ★, Life Sim 10.1%
- #60 Travellers Rest
67% matchVery Positive88% of 18,257 reviews2020
Dev: Isolated Games
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 20.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Craft, farm, build and cook! In Travellers Rest you will have to use all the available tools to become the best tavern keeper in the realm. Create unique dishes and drinks to please your customers as you discover the world and its colorful characters.
Why similar: Farming Sim 35.3%, Life Sim 27.7%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 11%, RPG 6%
