- #1 Spirit of the Island
97% matchMixed66% of 1,862 reviews2022
Dev: 1M Bits HordePub: META Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 23.3% ★, Agriculture 20.2% ★, Farming Sim 12.6%, Life Sim 8.3%, Co-op 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Another island-based life sim where you farm, fish, craft, gather resources, and build up a settlement, with co-op making the Dinkum comparison especially strong.
- #2 Garden Paws
96% matchVery Positive90% of 2,485 reviews2018
Dev: Bitten Toast Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 21.5 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 28.6% ★, Farming Sim 15.9%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 7.8%, Sandbox 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world gathering, farming, crafting, quests, and gradual town improvement in a similarly wholesome sandbox loop.
- #3 My Time at Sandrock
95% matchVery Positive88% of 28,280 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.8 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 26.2%, Life Sim 21.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Like Dinkum, it mixes resource gathering, crafting, mining, farming, and town growth into a long-form sandbox life sim.
- #4 Staxel
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,816 reviews2019
Dev: PlukitPub: Balor Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Grow your farm, meet the villagers, and join your friends online in building your world.
Why similar: Agriculture 29.6% ★, Farming Sim 21.5%, Sandbox 7.9%, Building 7.7%, Online Co-Op 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A cute 3D village sandbox with farming, bug catching, building, and multiplayer that scratches Dinkum's community-building side.
- #5 Len's Island
94% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 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 38.5% ★, Farming 30.6% ★, Crafting 8.8%, Building 8.8%, Sandbox 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It leans more toward survival action, but its open-world harvesting, base building, farming, and co-op feel very close to Dinkum's explore-and-expand loop.
- #6 Palia
94% matchVery Positive86% of 40,274 reviews2024
Dev: Singularity 6 Corporation
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 24.9 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 22.4%, Life Sim 16.8%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Dinkum is relaxed multiplayer gathering, housing, farming, fishing, and building a home in a living world, Palia is a natural fit.
- #7 Coral Island
93% matchVery Positive89% of 25,947 reviews2023
Dev: Stairway GamesPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 52.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 23.1%, Agriculture 22.6% ★, Life Sim 13.6%, Fishing 9% ★, Crafting 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its island setting, farming, fishing, mining, and town-improvement systems make it one of the closest pure life-sim alternatives.
- #8 Sun Haven
92% matchVery Positive81% of 24,588 reviews2023
Dev: Pixel Sprout Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.8 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%, Agriculture 22.3% ★, Life Sim 12.8%, Fishing 11.6% ★, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers farming, mining, fishing, crafting, relationship building, and multiplayer, wrapped in a more fantasy-RPG version of Dinkum's daily loop.
- #9 Lightyear Frontier
91% matchVery Positive84% of 4,206 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 27.6% ★, Agriculture 23% ★, Farming Sim 14.9%, Crafting 7.7%, Online Co-Op 7%
Why You'll Like It: This is a chill open-world farming-and-crafting game focused on building up your homestead through exploration and resource collection.
- #10 Snacko
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,002 reviews2025
Dev: Bluecurse StudiosPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 23% ★, Farming Sim 19.5%, Life Sim 12.9%, Building 11.8%, Crafting 10%
Why You'll Like It: You restore an island, farm, gather materials, and rebuild a town, giving it a very similar cozy frontier vibe.
- #11 Luma Island
89% matchVery Positive84% of 12,128 reviews2024
Dev: Feel Free Games
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 24.3 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 21.3%, Crafting 10.7%, Life Sim 10.4%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Co-op 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: This cozy co-op adventure emphasizes exploration, gathering, crafting, and building a life on an inviting island setting.
- #12 My Time at Portia
89% matchVery Positive92% of 44,040 reviews2019
Dev: Pathea GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 36.1 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 22.1% ★, Farming Sim 22%, Life Sim 15.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its core loop of gathering, crafting, building up the town, and slowly unlocking more of the world feels very Dinkum-adjacent.
- #13 Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
90% matchVery Positive82% of 3,207 reviews2017
Dev: Prideful Sloth
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.4 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 22.9% ★, Farming Sim 20.2%, Crafting 11.9%, Fishing 8.3% ★, Relaxing 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It shares Dinkum's relaxed open-world exploration, foraging, crafting, fishing, and island atmosphere, just without the survival pressure.
- #14 Fae Farm
88% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,471 reviews2023
Dev: Phoenix LabsPub: Gambit Digital
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 40.5%, Co-op 17.3%, Relaxing 11.1%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy co-op farm sim with crafting, exploration, dungeon runs, and home upgrading that hits a similar balance of comfort and progression.
- #15 Farm Together 2
86% matchVery Positive94% of 5,123 reviews2025
Dev: Milkstone Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 27.5 hrsMean: 110.0 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 29.5% ★, Farming Sim 19.2%, Fishing 15.9% ★, Life Sim 11.2%, Sandbox 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It lacks Dinkum's survival side, but its low-stress cooperative farming and steady homestead growth appeal to the same relaxing progression itch.
- #16 Stardew Valley
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 992,215 reviews2016
Dev: ConcernedApe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 22.7 hrsMean: 83.6 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 22.9% ★, Farming Sim 22%, Life Sim 13.1%, Crafting 6.2%, Fishing 6.2% ★
Why You'll Like It: The social life-sim side is stronger here, but its farming, fishing, mining, crafting, and multiplayer routine overlaps heavily with Dinkum.
- #17 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
86% matchVery Positive92% of 7,831 reviews2019
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.3 hrsMean: 48.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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% ★, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.6%, Crafting 7.1%, RPG 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: Building up settlements, farming, exploring, and gathering materials are at the heart of this one, even if it is more structured and story-driven.
- #18 Disney Dreamlight Valley
84% matchVery Positive92% of 23,720 reviews2023
Dev: Gameloft
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 114.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Explore a world filled with the magic of Disney as you discover rich stories and build the perfect neighborhood alongside Disney and Pixar heroes and villains in this new life-sim adventure game. Welcome to Disney Dreamlight Valley.
Why similar: Farming Sim 20%, Fishing 19% ★, Life Sim 17.3%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Mining, fishing, farming, foraging, crafting, and restoring a customizable village make it surprisingly close to Dinkum's gentler routines.
- #19 No Place Like Home
85% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,046 reviews2022
Dev: Chicken LauncherPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 24.8% ★, Farming Sim 19.4%, Fishing 13.6% ★, Life Sim 11.4%, Crafting 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Cleaning up the world, gathering resources, farming, and expanding a cozy base gives it a similar relaxed-but-productive rhythm.
- #20 Farm Together
84% matchVery Positive94% of 22,015 reviews2018
Dev: Milkstone Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 138.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in this unique, relaxing farming experience!
Why similar: Agriculture 39.4% ★, Farming Sim 16%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Co-op 7.1%, Building 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: This is mostly for players who loved Dinkum's soothing farm-growth loop and want an even more streamlined co-op farming version of it.
- #21 Everafter Falls
82% matchVery Positive84% of 668 reviews2024
Dev: SquareHuskyPub: Akupara Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 19.4% ★, Farming 17.7% ★, Farming Sim 16.9%, Fishing 12.1% ★, Life Sim 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: It blends farming, crafting, exploration, and town life in a compact cozy package that should click with Dinkum fans.
- #22 Core Keeper
81% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 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% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Co-op 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Mining, fishing, farming, base building, and co-op exploration are all here, though it leans more subterranean and survival-heavy than Dinkum.
- #23 Grow: Song of the Evertree
83% matchVery Positive81% of 2,538 reviews2021
Dev: Prideful SlothPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Grow your own worlds and nurture a deep natural connection with everything they hold. See your actions change the world for better! Bring the Evertree back to life in this breathtaking world-crafting sandbox, with life management and adventure elements.
Why similar: Agriculture 33.4% ★, Farming Sim 24.6%, Life Sim 14.7%, Sandbox 10%, Exploration 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: Town building, gathering, exploration, and nurturing a colorful world echo Dinkum's calm sense of place and incremental development.
- #24 Wildmender
82% matchVery Positive85% of 2,104 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.5 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 26.2% ★, Agriculture 21.4% ★, Farming Sim 18.9%, Crafting 6.8%, Online Co-Op 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxed open-world survival game about farming, restoring nature, and building up your oasis, with co-op adding to the shared sandbox feel.
- #25 Immortal Life
81% matchVery Positive80% of 4,255 reviews2024
Dev: YiFang StudioPub: 2P Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 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 29.4% ★, Farming Sim 17%, Fishing 15.8% ★, Life Sim 11%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This one focuses on farming, crafting, home improvement, and community restoration, with a similar build-up-your-new-life payoff.
- #26 Slime Rancher 2
78% matchVery Positive94% of 46,920 reviews2025
Dev: Monomi Park
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Continue the adventures of Beatrix LeBeau as she journeys across the Slime Sea to Rainbow Island, a land brimming with ancient mysteries, and bursting with wiggly, new slimes to wrangle in this sequel to the smash-hit, Slime Rancher.
Why similar: Relaxing 34.5%, Building 28.3%, Simulation 15%, Adventure 8.8%, Casual 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: While less of a town sim, its colorful open-world collecting, ranch building, and laid-back progression hit a similarly cozy sandbox mood.
- #27 Moonstone Island
80% matchVery Positive84% of 4,722 reviews2023
Dev: Studio SupersoftPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 27.7% ★, Farming Sim 17.5%, Fishing 15.3% ★, Life Sim 11.5%, Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It is more creature-collection focused, but the farming, crafting, and island living still overlap enough to make it a decent lighter alternative.
- #28 Go-Go Town!
79% matchVery Positive94% of 2,120 reviews2024
Dev: Prideful Sloth
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Step into the role of a hands-on mayor and build your town from the ground up. Plan neighborhoods, automate logistics, and grow your community—all while juggling workers, infrastructure, and day-to-day chaos to create your dream town. Play solo for total control, or bring friends for co-op mayhem.
Why similar: Fishing 23.3% ★, Farming Sim 21.9%, Life Sim 14.9%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 11%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes turning a rough settlement into a thriving town, which matches the civic-building satisfaction of Dinkum even with less survival.
- #29 Rune Factory 5
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,044 reviews2022
Dev: Marvelous Inc.Pub: XSEED Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 23.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
As the newest ranger of a peacekeeping organization known as SEED, protect your community by rounding up rowdy monsters and going on special missions. Cultivate your farm and friendships alike while unravelling rune-related mysteries!
Why similar: Farming Sim 45.3%, Fishing 22.2% ★, Crafting 10.5%, RPG 9.5%, Simulation 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: If you want more combat and RPG structure alongside your farming, crafting, exploration, and town life, this fits well.
- #30 Roots of Pacha
77% matchVery Positive94% of 4,347 reviews2023
Dev: Soda Den
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 22.6% ★, Farming Sim 18.8%, Life Sim 11.5%, Crafting 8.4%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
- #31 Starsand Island
75% matchVery Positive87% of 7,209 reviews2026
Dev: Seed Sparkle Lab
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 20.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 17.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #32 The Survivalists
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 9,935 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.9% ★, Crafting 14%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Co-op 9.4%, Sandbox 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its island survival, crafting, farming, and co-op play make it a good pick if you want more of Dinkum's survival-crafting side.
- #33 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
75% matchVery Positive85% of 4,518 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 14.6 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 19.5% ★, Farming Sim 13.7%, Life Sim 8.6%, Crafting 7%
- #34 Necesse
73% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 52.2% ★, Crafting 8.2%, Sandbox 7.7%, Co-op 7%, Building 6.2%
- #35 Littlewood
76% matchVery Positive93% of 6,792 reviews2020
Dev: Sean YoungPub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 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 27.1% ★, Life Sim 13.2%, Farming Sim 13%, Crafting 8.4%, Fishing 8.2% ★
- #36 Aloft
74% matchVery Positive84% of 3,496 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 13.9 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 22.5% ★, Farming 21.8% ★, Agriculture 16.4% ★, Crafting 8.1%, Co-op 7.8%
- #37 Kynseed
76% matchVery Positive83% of 3,619 reviews2022
Dev: PixelCount Studios
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 26.6%, Life Sim 16.3%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 10.6%, Farming 9.6% ★
- #38 Hokko Life
77% matchMixed66% of 2,650 reviews2022
Dev: Gizmo GardenPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 8.8 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 20.4% ★, Agriculture 19.5% ★, Farming Sim 14.8%, Fishing 12.2% ★, Life Sim 9.9%
- #39 Fields of Mistria
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 27,018 reviews2024
Dev: NPC Studio
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 23.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 22.6% ★, Agriculture 20.6% ★, Farming Sim 19.8%, Life Sim 11.6%, Crafting 5.3%
- #40 Echoes of the Plum Grove
72% matchVery Positive88% of 3,019 reviews2024
Dev: Unwound GamesPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 23.2 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 39.1%, Life Sim 24.1%, Crafting 17.6%, Simulation 7.4%, Exploration 7.4%
- #41 Old Market Simulator
71% matchVery Positive88% of 4,894 reviews2024
Dev: Alcedo Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 27.4% ★, Farming 20.5% ★, Life Sim 16.8%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Co-op 8.5%
- #42 Travellers Rest
73% matchVery Positive88% of 16,540 reviews2020
Dev: Isolated Games
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 19.4 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 35.2%, Life Sim 28%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 10.9%, RPG 5.9%
- #43 Cropia
71% matchVery Positive94% of 77 reviews2025
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 24.1% ★, Farming 19.6% ★, Farming Sim 15.7%, Fishing 12.6% ★, Life Sim 10.1%
- #44 Everdream Valley
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 944 reviews2023
Dev: MooneatersPub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 21.1%, Fishing 18.6% ★, Life Sim 12.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 8.3%
- #45 Critter Cove
70% matchVery Positive95% of 1,823 reviews2024
Dev: Gentleman Rat Studios
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Fishing 25% ★, Farming Sim 25%, Life Sim 16.4%, Sandbox 10.7%, Relaxing 8.2%
- #46 Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 975 reviews2019
Dev: Alchemist InteractivePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.6 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 29.6% ★, Farming 26% ★, Farming Sim 18%, Crafting 7.9%, Relaxing 5.3%
- #47 DYSMANTLE
71% matchVery Positive91% of 11,317 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 25.4 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 32.5% ★, Fishing 21.8% ★, Crafting 17%, Sandbox 9.3%, RPG 5.6%
- #48 Tinkerlands
69% matchVery Positive86% of 3,746 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.7 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 41.9% ★, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Sandbox 8.9%, Crafting 8.5%, Co-op 8.4%
- #49 Mirthwood
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,326 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Ridge GamesPub: V Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 27.9% ★, Farming Sim 15.7%, Farming 13.6% ★, Fishing 13.2% ★, Life Sim 7.6%
- #50 Havendock
69% matchVery Positive80% of 1,861 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Agriculture 28.9% ★, Farming Sim 17.6%, Life Sim 11.6%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 8%
- #51 Song Of The Prairie
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,505 reviews2024
Dev: The Droplet StudioPub: AOE Plus
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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% ★, Farming 18.8% ★, Farming Sim 16.6%, Life Sim 10.7%, Crafting 8%
- #52 Cozy Island
67% matchVery Positive92% of 2,388 reviews2025
Dev: LazyFish Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Grow veggies, go fishing, and meet cute animals! On this relaxing and lovely island, you can walk around and explore freely, unlock quirky and fun items, build your own secret base, and enjoy carefree, joy-filled days at your own pace.
Why similar: Farming Sim 29.1%, Life Sim 19.4%, Co-op 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Relaxing 9.3%
- #53 Forager
70% matchVery Positive90% of 43,003 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.3 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 44.9% ★, Farming Sim 14%, Crafting 10.5%, Agriculture 9.6% ★, Sandbox 5.6%
- #54 Ooblets
68% matchVery Positive91% of 1,527 reviews2023
Dev: Glumberland
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Ooblets is a relaxing and offbeat farming, town life, and creature collection game. Manage your farm, grow and train your ooblets, explore strange lands, and have dance-offs!
Why similar: Agriculture 28.9% ★, Farming 24.1% ★, Farming Sim 21.1%, Crafting 9.4%, Relaxing 6%
- #55 Clanfolk
68% matchVery Positive92% of 3,737 reviews2022
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.Pub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Why similar: Agriculture 24.5% ★, Farming Sim 16.2%, Fishing 13.2% ★, Life Sim 10.6%, Crafting 7.8%
- #56 Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 44,721 reviews2023
Dev: Toxic DogPub: Excalibur Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.0 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 31.8% ★, Farming Sim 21.6%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Co-op 9.5%, Multiplayer 7.1%
- #57 Longvinter
67% matchMixed67% of 7,526 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 39.9 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 44.1% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Sandbox 9.5%, Co-op 9.4%, Multiplayer 8.8%
- #58 Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 456 reviews2023
Dev: Snowcastle Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Ikonei Island is yours to discover! Explore and gather resources. Farm the land, craft tools and gear, and build your base or a cozy home. Befriend magical creatures and fight monsters with your friends or solo!
Why similar: Farming Sim 25.7%, Building 11.9%, Relaxing 11.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Co-op 10.8%
- #59 Cattle Country
65% matchVery Positive87% of 351 reviews2025
Dev: Castle Pixel, LLC.Pub: Playtonic Friends
Windows · Linux
Howdy partner! Welcome to Cattle Country, the Cozy Cowboy Adventure Life Sim. Become a determined pioneer traveling west to start a new life. Make a home in the mountains, take on bandits, discover dastardly plots, build a farm, develop your town, and make friends with fellow residents.
Why similar: Agriculture 26.1% ★, Farming Sim 21.3%, Life Sim 12.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #60 STORY OF SEASONS: Grand Bazaar
64% matchVery Positive94% of 3,749 reviews2025
Dev: Marvelous Inc.Pub: XSEED Games
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 44.6 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 36.5% ★, Farming Sim 24.6%, Life Sim 16.3%, Crafting 11.4%, Relaxing 7%
