- #1 Spirit of the Island
97% matchMixed66% of 1,897 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 24.5% ★, Agriculture 20.5% ★, Farming Sim 12.7%, Life Sim 8.3%, Crafting 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: This is one of the closest matches thanks to its island setting, farming and crafting loops, town restoration focus, and optional co-op play.
- #2 Palia
96% matchVery Positive86% of 43,867 reviews2024
Dev: Singularity 6 Corporation
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 26.4 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 22.5%, Life Sim 16.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 9.4%, Online Co-Op 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: If you love Dinkum’s relaxed gathering, fishing, farming, and multiplayer community feel, Palia delivers a very similar cozy progression loop.
- #3 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 28.8% ★, Farming Sim 15.8%, Crafting 8.5%, Building 7.8%, Sandbox 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It captures Dinkum’s mix of island exploration, resource gathering, farming, building, and cozy town progression in a similarly open-ended sandbox.
- #4 Coral Island
95% matchVery Positive89% of 27,509 reviews2023
Dev: Stairway GamesPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 13.6 hrsMean: 56.0 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 23.6%, Agriculture 22.5% ★, Life Sim 13.6%, Fishing 8.8% ★, Crafting 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: While less survival-focused, it shares Dinkum’s satisfying mix of farming, fishing, bug-catching, exploration, and helping a town grow.
- #5 My Time at Sandrock
94% matchVery Positive88% of 28,958 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 39.2 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 gather-craft-build loop, social town progression, and open-area exploration scratch the same life-sim sandbox itch as Dinkum.
- #6 Staxel
94% 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 7.7%, Online Co-Op 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It blends farming, village life, building, and freeform sandbox exploration in a way that feels very close to Dinkum’s laid-back town-building appeal.
- #7 Critter Cove
93% matchVery Positive95% of 1,931 reviews2024
Dev: Gentleman Rat Studios
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 16.7 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%, Fishing 24.9% ★, Life Sim 16.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Relaxing 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its island scavenging, crafting, fishing, and town restoration make it a strong pick for players who want Dinkum’s exploratory community-building vibe.
- #8 Luma Island
92% matchVery Positive84% of 12,657 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 10%, Co-op 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative island exploration, profession-based gathering, and cozy progression make it a natural fit for Dinkum fans.
- #9 Fae Farm
91% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,575 reviews2023
Dev: Phoenix LabsPub: Gambit Digital
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 21.9 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 11.1%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This offers a similarly cozy blend of farming, crafting, exploration, and co-op, just with a more magical fantasy setting.
- #10 Sun Haven
91% matchVery Positive81% of 25,417 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 22.3% ★, Life Sim 12.7%, Fishing 11.4% ★, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It shares Dinkum’s broad activity range—farming, crafting, fishing, mining, and social sim systems—with multiplayer support and lots of progression.
- #11 Len's Island
90% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,866 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 39.2% ★, Farming 30.5% ★, Building 8.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It leans more into survival and combat, but its island building, farming, crafting, and co-op exploration line up well with Dinkum’s sandbox side.
- #12 Disney Dreamlight Valley
89% matchVery Positive92% of 24,686 reviews2023
Dev: Gameloft
Windows
Median: 32.3 hrsMean: 116.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 18.7% ★, Life Sim 17.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It matches Dinkum’s appeal of collecting resources, farming, fishing, crafting, and steadily restoring a lively community.
- #13 My Time at Portia
89% matchVery Positive91% of 44,278 reviews2019
Dev: Pathea GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 35.9 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 15.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Like Dinkum, it revolves around gathering materials, crafting useful structures, building relationships, and improving a developing town.
- #14 Farm Together 2
87% matchVery Positive94% of 5,405 reviews2025
Dev: Milkstone Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 27.3 hrsMean: 132.4 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 29.7% ★, Farming Sim 18.8%, Fishing 16.2% ★, Life Sim 11.4%, Sandbox 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: If the farming and co-op relaxation in Dinkum are your favorite parts, this offers an even more streamlined and social version of that loop.
- #15 Lightyear Frontier
88% matchVery Positive84% of 4,679 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 13.2 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 28.4% ★, Agriculture 22.9% ★, Farming Sim 14.7%, Crafting 7.6%, Online Co-Op 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This is a great match if your favorite part of Dinkum is peacefully harvesting resources, building up a homestead, and exploring a bright open world.
- #16 Roots of Pacha
86% matchVery Positive94% of 4,536 reviews2023
Dev: Soda Den
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 21.6 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 18.8%, Life Sim 11.3%, Crafting 8.4%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It shares Dinkum’s communal progression and resource-based development, even if it trades 3D sandbox play for a prehistoric pixel-art farming sim.
- #17 Go-Go Town!
84% matchVery Positive93% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Prideful Sloth
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 22.1% ★, Farming 21.1% ★, Life Sim 15.5%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes town growth and management over survival, but it delivers the same satisfying feeling of turning a small settlement into something bustling and personal.
- #18 Everafter Falls
84% matchVery Positive84% of 723 reviews2024
Dev: SquareHuskyPub: Akupara Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 9.0 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% ★, Farming 17.9% ★, Farming Sim 16.8%, Fishing 12% ★, Life Sim 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its cozy farming, crafting, exploration, and optional co-op make it a strong pick for players who want a more compact Dinkum-like life sim.
- #19 Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
86% matchVery Positive82% of 3,221 reviews2017
Dev: Prideful Sloth
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Its relaxing open-world gathering, farming, and crafting focus feels close to Dinkum’s gentler exploration-heavy side.
- #20 Hokko Life
85% matchMixed66% of 2,667 reviews2022
Dev: Wonderscope GamesPub: 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 20.6% ★, Agriculture 19.7% ★, Farming Sim 14.8%, Fishing 12.1% ★, Life Sim 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its town-focused life sim structure, gathering, crafting, and customization make it a good fit for fans of Dinkum’s cozy settlement-building side.
- #21 Core Keeper
81% matchVery Positive93% of 66,104 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 34.7 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 36.6% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Co-op 10.2%, Building 9.4%, Online Co-Op 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It skews more survival-adventure, but its co-op mining, farming, base-building, and exploration loops overlap well with Dinkum’s sandbox progression.
- #22 Kynseed
83% matchVery Positive83% of 3,860 reviews2022
Dev: PixelCount Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 12.3 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 26.4%, Life Sim 16.1%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 10.7%, Farming 10% ★
Why You'll Like It: It shares Dinkum’s open-ended life-sim structure, letting you farm, gather, craft, and explore at your own pace in a world that slowly opens up.
- #23 Moonstone Island
82% matchVery Positive84% of 5,022 reviews2023
Dev: Studio SupersoftPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 15.3 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 27.9% ★, Farming Sim 17.4%, Fishing 15.2% ★, Life Sim 11.3%, Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers farming, crafting, and island exploration with a cozy open-ended feel, though it adds more creature collecting than Dinkum does.
- #24 Littlewood
82% matchVery Positive93% of 6,824 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 8.4%, Fishing 8.1% ★
Why You'll Like It: Though much smaller in scope, it delivers the same comforting loop of gathering resources and gradually building a town around your daily routine.
- #25 Echoes of the Plum Grove
81% matchVery Positive88% of 3,132 reviews2024
Dev: Unwound GamesPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 39.2%, Life Sim 23.8%, Crafting 17.7%, Exploration 7.4%, Simulation 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: This offers a cozy farm-and-community loop with some survival-lite edges, making it appealing if you like Dinkum’s daily routines with a bit of pressure.
- #26 Snacko
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,045 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 22.9% ★, Farming Sim 19.5%, Life Sim 12.8%, Building 12%, Crafting 10%
Why You'll Like It: Its mix of island restoration, farming, crafting, and rebuilding a community makes it an easy recommendation for Dinkum players.
- #27 Wildmender
80% matchVery Positive84% of 2,225 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.2 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 26.8% ★, Agriculture 21.5% ★, Farming Sim 18.6%, Crafting 6.7%, Online Co-Op 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: This keeps the relaxing gathering-and-cultivation feel of Dinkum but shifts it toward survival crafting and environmental restoration.
- #28 Solarpunk™
77% matchVery Positive82% of 4,341 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 27.5% ★, Farming 17.1% ★, Farming Sim 11.4%, Crafting 7%, Co-op 7%
- #29 Starsand Island
76% matchMostly Positive82% of 7,727 reviews2026
Dev: Seed Sparkle Lab
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 22.8 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 26.5%, Life Sim 17.3%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10%
- #30 Rune Factory 5
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,112 reviews2022
Dev: Marvelous Inc.Pub: XSEED Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 24.3 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 38.7%, Fishing 18.9% ★, Farming 14.5% ★, Crafting 9%, RPG 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It blends farming, crafting, social sim elements, and outdoor adventuring in a way that overlaps nicely with Dinkum’s busy day-to-day rhythm.
- #31 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
78% matchVery Positive92% of 8,060 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 59.7% ★, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 8.4%, Crafting 7%, RPG 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: This is a strong match if you enjoy gathering materials, farming, building up settlements, and exploring a world that constantly rewards expansion.
- #32 Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 473 reviews2023
Dev: Snowcastle Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 25.6%, Building 12%, Relaxing 11.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Co-op 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its island setting, resource gathering, farming, base growth, and co-op-friendly exploration make it a solid lower-key alternative to Dinkum.
- #33 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
76% matchVery Positive85% of 4,645 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 22.1% ★, Open World Survival Craft 20% ★, Farming Sim 13.6%, Life Sim 8.4%, Crafting 7%
- #34 Farm Together
77% matchVery Positive94% of 22,105 reviews2018
Dev: Milkstone Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.2 hrsMean: 142.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in this unique, relaxing farming experience!
Why similar: Agriculture 39.6% ★, Farming Sim 15.9%, Online Co-Op 7.7%, Co-op 7.1%, Building 7%
- #35 Fields of Mistria
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 33,222 reviews2026
Dev: NPC Studio
Windows · Linux
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 22.8% ★, Agriculture 20.4% ★, Farming Sim 20.3%, Life Sim 11.3%, Crafting 5.3%
- #36 Farm to Table
74% matchVery Positive92% of 662 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 27.6% ★, Agriculture 21.2% ★, Farming Sim 15.2%, Fishing 12.7% ★, Crafting 7%
- #37 Old Market Simulator
75% matchVery Positive88% of 5,316 reviews2024
Dev: Alcedo Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.1 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 27.7% ★, Farming 20.5% ★, Life Sim 16.5%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Co-op 8.4%
- #38 Stardew Valley
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,034,074 reviews2016
Dev: ConcernedApe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 22.9 hrsMean: 85.2 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 12.9%, Crafting 6.2%, Fishing 6.2% ★
- #39 Necesse
72% matchVery Positive93% of 28,807 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.3 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 53.2% ★, Crafting 7.9%, Sandbox 7.5%, Co-op 7%, Building 6.1%
- #40 Cropia
73% matchVery Positive93% of 81 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 12.5% ★, Life Sim 9.9%
- #41 Aloft
73% matchVery Positive84% of 3,682 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 14.3 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 22.9% ★, Farming 21.7% ★, Agriculture 16.3% ★, Crafting 8%, Co-op 7.8%
- #42 DYSMANTLE
74% matchVery Positive91% of 11,572 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.3 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 32.7% ★, Fishing 21.5% ★, Crafting 17%, Sandbox 9.3%, RPG 5.7%
- #43 STORY OF SEASONS: Grand Bazaar
70% matchVery Positive94% of 4,013 reviews2025
Dev: Marvelous Inc.Pub: XSEED Games
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 48.2 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 19.9%, Life Sim 12.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 8%
- #44 Tinkerlands
70% matchVery Positive86% of 4,087 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 14.2 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 42.9% ★, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Sandbox 8.8%, Crafting 8.4%, Co-op 8.2%
- #45 Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 47,912 reviews2023
Dev: Toxic DogPub: Excalibur Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.6 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 20.8%, Co-op 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #46 Travellers Rest
72% matchVery Positive88% of 18,025 reviews2020
Dev: Isolated Games
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 20.6 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 27.8%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 11.1%, RPG 6%
- #47 Mirthwood
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,368 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Ridge GamesPub: V Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.1 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 28.6% ★, Farming Sim 15.5%, Farming 13.6% ★, Fishing 12.9% ★, Life Sim 7.4%
- #48 Cozy Island
68% matchVery Positive92% of 2,634 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 29.1%, Life Sim 19.1%, Co-op 10.9%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Relaxing 9.3%
- #49 Outbound
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,098 reviews2026
Dev: Square Glade Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.9 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 29.9% ★, Farming 24.8% ★, Crafting 8.8%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Building 8%
- #50 Everdream Valley
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 967 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 21.2%, Fishing 18.5% ★, Life Sim 12.4%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 8.4%
- #51 Wonderia
67% matchVery Positive82% of 347 reviews2026
Dev: Rock&DashPub: IndieArk
Windows · Mac
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 38.3% ★, Farming Sim 14.5%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #52 Forager
70% matchVery Positive89% of 43,959 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 45.7% ★, Farming Sim 13.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Agriculture 9.6% ★, Sandbox 5.5%
- #53 Cornucopia®
69% matchVery Positive88% of 659 reviews2023
Dev: David DolynnyPub: Subconscious Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 10.9%, Fishing 9.7% ★, Crafting 7.4%
- #54 Doloc Town
65% matchVery Positive95% of 3,537 reviews2026
Dev: RedSaw Games StudioPub: Logoi Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Play as a young scavenger and construct your vertical farm one platform at a time under extreme weather. Evolving from a scrap-gathering survivor into an easygoing farming tycoon. Transform the climate, and remake the wasteland into your personal Eden.
Why similar: Farming 28.5% ★, Farming Sim 18%, Fishing 17.1% ★, Crafting 8.9%, Building 7.9%
- #55 The Ranchers
68% matchMixed58% of 608 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 11.6%, Crafting 7.8%, Building 6.8%
- #56 Havendock
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,948 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 11.1 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 29.2% ★, Farming Sim 17.5%, Life Sim 11.4%, Crafting 9%, Building 8.1%
- #57 Big Farm Story
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,352 reviews2021
Dev: Goodgame Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build your dream farm with your friends & animals in Big Farm Story. Grow crops, tend your fields, craft and explore the world in this farming adventure. Meet new friends around each corner, shape your own community and have fun writing your own story.
Why similar: Farming 34.5% ★, Farming Sim 19.5%, Life Sim 13.9%, Crafting 8.1%, Co-op 6.8%
- #58 Animalkind
66% matchVery Positive91% of 88 reviews2026
Dev: Uncommon Games
Windows
Forage, frolic and zoomie as an intelligent, aww-dorable animal who discovers an ancient mech. Pilot the mech and use a suite of powerful tools to gather resources, shape the land, and build your ideal town alongside a growing cast of characters—solo or with up to three friends.
Why similar: Fishing 17.4% ★, Farming Sim 17.2%, Life Sim 11.3%, Crafting 9.4%, Online Co-Op 8.8%
- #59 Longvinter
67% matchMixed67% of 7,664 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 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 44.7% ★, Crafting 14%, Sandbox 9.4%, Co-op 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.8%
- #60 No Place Like Home
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 4,097 reviews2022
Dev: Chicken LauncherPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.7 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 25.1% ★, Farming Sim 19.3%, Fishing 13.5% ★, Life Sim 11.2%, Crafting 9.5%
