- #1 AutoForge
97% matchVery Positive88% of 450 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 13.3%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the core focus on combining automation mechanics with 3D exploration and fantasy-inspired crafting.
- #2 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
96% matchVery Positive84% of 2,178 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Building 17.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 11.1%, Open World 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It blends automation with a charming fantasy aesthetic and exploration, mirroring the gameplay loop of the seed game.
- #3 Satisfactory
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Base Building 16.8%, Open World Survival Craft 9.4% ★, Open World 9%, Resource Management 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: As a premier 3D automation game, it provides the deep factory-building experience that players of Dragon Forge often seek.
- #4 Nova Lands
95% matchVery Positive89% of 3,351 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Open World Survival Craft 16.6% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 8.3%, Sandbox 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the incremental progression and automation loop found in Dragon Forge within a vibrant open world.
- #5 Dyson Sphere Program
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 10.3%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a massive scale for automation and resource management, appealing to those who enjoy the factory-building aspects of the seed game.
- #6 Forager
94% 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 32.6% ★, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 9.8%, Sandbox 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This title is a quintessential incremental crafting game that shares the addictive resource-gathering loop found in Dragon Forge.
- #7 FOUNDRY
93% matchVery Positive81% of 3,508 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 20.8%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 10.3%, Open World 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This 3D factory-building game emphasizes automation and exploration, making it a natural follow-up for fans of the genre.
- #8 Eden Crafters
92% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.4% ★, Automation 18.2%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 7.4%, Building 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on automation and base-building in an open-world environment, providing a similar sense of progression and scale.
- #9 Craftopia
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 19,974 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 24% ★, Open World 16.9%, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 13.1%, Sandbox 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival game features extensive automation, crafting, and fantasy elements that align well with the experience of Dragon Forge.
- #10 Omega Crafter
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 560 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Open World Survival Craft 21.4% ★, Open World 10.7%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It combines automation with open-world survival and crafting, allowing players to build complex systems in a fantasy-adjacent setting.
- #11 First Dwarf
90% matchMostly Positive78% of 353 reviews2024
Dev: Star Drifters
Windows
Pilot a dwarven mech and fly a dragon as you build and defend outposts across a shattered magical realm. Craft, explore, and survive the dangers of floating islands corrupted by the Taint in this action-packed survival RPG with base-building and co-op.
Why similar: Base Building 21.4%, Building 18%, Crafting 14.3%, Open World 13.9%, Survival 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game features action-oriented exploration and base-building with a fantasy theme that resonates with the dragon-centric world of the seed game.
- #12 Outpath
89% matchVery Positive94% of 2,905 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 15.9% ★, Automation 13.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Idler 8.4%, Resource Management 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It is a highly addictive incremental game that focuses on gathering, crafting, and building in a simplified, satisfying way.
- #13 Draconia
89% matchMixed66% of 917 reviews2022
Dev: Draconia Dev Team
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Create your dragon, customize it, level it. Explore the world of Draconia and unravel its story. Draconia is an MORPG where YOU play as the dragon!
Why similar: Dragons 34.6% ★, Survival 15.4%, Open World 13%, Base Building 11.3%, Simulation 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: For players specifically drawn to the dragon theme, this simulation game offers an immersive experience centered around dragon life.
- #14 Citadel: Forged with Fire
88% matchMixed68% of 5,882 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Open World 15.9%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 9.5%, Dragons 9.5% ★
Why You'll Like It: It provides a massive open-world fantasy experience with magic and base-building that appeals to the adventurous side of Dragon Forge.
- #15 Incremental Factory
87% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Why similar: Automation 24.2%, Idler 16.1%, Resource Management 12.7%, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the idle and incremental aspects of automation, perfect for players who enjoy the progression speed of the seed game.
- #16 Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival
86% matchMixed69% of 841 reviews2023
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
TIME TRAVEL through history to BECOME GOD 🚀 Ride dinosaurs, forge tools, sail dunes, build a colony, siege castles, automate and fly, mine underground, launch to the moon, build a dyson sphere! An insane, unforgettable and revolutionary survival crafting base building open world adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.2% ★, Automation 18.1%, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 9.2%, Open World 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique progression system that incorporates automation and survival across different eras.
- #17 Techtonica
86% matchMixed65% of 3,183 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 11.7%, Resource Management 10.9%, Sandbox 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person automation game focuses on underground exploration and base-building, sharing the satisfying progression of Dragon Forge.
- #18 Mob Factory
85% matchMostly Positive72% of 474 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
Why similar: Automation 26.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 12.7%, Open World 9.6%, Sandbox 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game uses automation to manage resources gathered from mobs, offering a unique twist on the factory-building genre.
- #19 Skyformer
83% matchVery Positive90% of 59 reviews2025
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.1% ★, Automation 18.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 8.3%, Survival 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game integrates automation into an open-world survival-crafting framework, mirroring the core mechanics of Dragon Forge.
- #20 Core Keeper
82% 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 22.1% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Building 11.5%, Open World 11.4%, Sandbox 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends exploration, base-building, and automation in a top-down perspective that feels very similar to the incremental loop of the seed game.
- #21 Chocolate Factory
84% matchMixed54% of 139 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
Why similar: Automation 17.2%, Open World Survival Craft 16.7% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Resource Management 8.9%, Building 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a whimsical take on automation and base-building, focusing on resource management and production chains.
- #22 World Crafter TD
84% matchMixed46% of 556 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 29%
A highly addictive survival crafting tower defense game! Gather, craft, build turrets, shoot guns, and expand the land to defend against waves of enemies in World Crafter TD!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.4% ★, Automation 16.9%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 9.9%, Crafting 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines open-world survival with tower defense and automation, providing a strategic layer similar to the seed game.
- #23 ASTRONEER
82% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 10.9%, Survival 10.4%, Automation 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes exploration and base-building with a heavy focus on resource management and automation in a beautiful, stylized world.
- #24 Orebound
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 849 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Orebound is a voxel, factory, automation game set in a first person open-world. The King has tasked you to locate the elusive Emberstone. Go forth and use your Dwarven prowess and knowledge to mine, craft and automate through anything standing in your way - Build up or dig down! How far will you go?
Why similar: Automation 22.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 12.3%, Building 10.4%, Crafting 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It is a simulation-heavy automation game that focuses on mining and resource management in a vast, open world.
- #25 Slime Rancher
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 151,397 reviews2017
Dev: Monomi Park
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.
Why similar: Open World 31.6%, Exploration 19.6%, Sandbox 18.7%, Management 13.9%, Adventure 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a relaxing yet engaging loop of resource management and automation within a colorful, exploration-heavy environment.
- #26 Factorio
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 188.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 28.7%, Base Building 18.1%, Resource Management 12.5%, Sandbox 8.7%, Crafting 7%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive automation game, it provides the ultimate challenge for players who want to master complex production chains.
- #27 shapez
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,210 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Automation 26.5%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 12.5%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game strips away the survival elements to focus purely on the satisfying logic and geometry of automation.
- #28 Aground
80% matchVery Positive94% of 1,965 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.8% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Dragons 13.5% ★, Building 10.2%, Open World 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game is a fantastic example of an incremental crafting adventure that starts small and scales up to complex fantasy technology.
- #29 Keplerth
78% matchVery Positive85% of 4,121 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
Why similar: Sandbox 16.8%, Building 16.2%, Open World 15.6%, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep survival and crafting experience with exploration elements that feel grounded and rewarding.
- #30 Littlewood
78% 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: Collectathon 17.1%, Building 16.8%, Sandbox 16%, Crafting 15.3%, Open World 14.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a chill, incremental building experience that captures the satisfying progression loop of the seed game.
- #31 XenoHaven
75% matchVery Positive86% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.6% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Automation 10.6%, Open World 10.5%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #32 Solace Crafting
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 9.9%, Building 9.6%
- #33 The Planet Crafter
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.6% ★, Automation 14.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 8.8%, Survival 8.3%
- #34 Frozen Flame
77% matchMixed63% of 2,965 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Building 10.4%, Open World 10.2%, Sandbox 10%
- #35 Alchemy Factory
72% matchVery Positive90% of 2,078 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!
Why similar: Automation 30.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 9.3%
- #36 Force of Nature
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,198 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 8.9%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #37 Soulmask
73% matchVery Positive81% of 17,627 reviews2024
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 66.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.7% ★, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 9.9%, Resource Management 8.9%, Building 8.4%
- #38 HammerHelm
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 384 reviews2021
Dev: SuperSixStudiosPub: SOEDESCO
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
HammerHelm is a unique blend of third-person adventuring and strategic town building. Create your dwarf character and build a flourishing town above ground. Complete quests, craft weapons and armor, defeat dangerous enemies and be the leader your townspeople need!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Building 15%, Base Building 13.8%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 11.2%
- #39 Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
73% matchVery Positive80% of 2,320 reviews2021
Dev: A.Y.stdPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.5% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Open World 11.9%, Survival 10.8%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #40 Brinefall
74% matchMixed42% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: Qwerty StudioPub: Gamera Interactive
Windows
Embark on an epic journey in Brinefall, where you'll gather resources and construct your own village while exploring a vast open-world filled with secrets and mysteries. Battle fierce enemies and collect valuable loot in this unique blend of sandbox and RPG gameplay.
Why similar: Base Building 19.1%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 13.6%, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 11.7%
- #41 Outerverse
74% matchMixed51% of 124 reviews2022
Dev: Tbjbu2Pub: indie.io
Windows
Build automated machines and weapons across the universe, beat massive bosses, experience cosmic events and explore unique landmarks in this quest driven automation crafting adventure game. Includes a manual scenario for crafting instead of machines for those not a fan of logic/automation!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.9% ★, Automation 19.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Resource Management 10.3%, Open World 8.7%
- #42 Lantern Forge
76% matchMixed54% of 284 reviews2014
Dev: Hearthfire Studios
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Lantern Forge is a sandbox survival game with building, crafting, and RPG elements. Mine and forage for resources to build a home, plant crops, and craft weapons and armor. Then venture out to explore the wilderness, find hidden dungeons and temples, fight unique monsters, and collect the treasures they guard.
Why similar: Sandbox 28.8%, Survival 26.3%, Crafting 24.2%, RPG 12.7%, Adventure 8%
- #43 Blacksmith: Ignite the Forge
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 93 reviews2025
Dev: Floodgate CrewPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Blacksmith: Ignite the Forge is a mix of a simulator, strategy, and auto-battler. Become a master smith, craft various weapons, and enhance them with magical runes. Equip a team of adventurers with your hand-made tools, send them on missions, gather loot to upgrade your forge, and save the land!
Why similar: Building 34.9%, Crafting 29.3%, Resource Management 19.8%, Simulation 16%
- #44 ArkCraft: The Rebirth of the World
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 171 reviews2024
Dev: ZD Yazilim
Windows
In this open-world crafting and building game, you explore an ancient world full of dangers and secrets. Collect animals and plants, build bases and master the craft as you build your ark and save civilization from destruction by the flood and then rebuild it.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Open World 12.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9.5%
- #45 MoteMancer
69% matchVery Positive94% of 236 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
An alchemical automation game of logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element offers unique tools for power, transport, and defense, rewarding adaptation and experimentation. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this Hex-Grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 24.2%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 12.3%, Sandbox 9.9%, Open World 7.9%
- #46 Volcanoids
71% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Open World 10.9%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 9.6%
- #47 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
66% matchVery Positive81% of 23,948 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Open World 11.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 10.3%, Dragons 9.4% ★
- #48 Atrio: The Dark Wild
69% matchVery Positive80% of 592 reviews2023
Dev: Isto Inc.
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.3% ★, Automation 19.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 9.1%, Open World 8.3%
- #49 MergeCrafter
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 902 reviews2022
Dev: Fiveamp
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 28.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Welcome to the magical world of Runaria! Explore dungeons, craft tools, chop trees, mine rocks, and discover treasure! Merge identical items to create valuable resources, Craft new tools and upgrade them with powerful enchantments! Setup passive mining drills and tree farms to rebuild your camp!
Why similar: Idler 22.5%, Collectathon 16.7%, Resource Management 15.1%, Sandbox 14.8%, Crafting 13.9%
- #50 Automation Empire
70% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 27.5%, Base Building 17.2%, Resource Management 10.6%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #51 Windforge
72% matchMixed68% of 616 reviews2014
Dev: Snowed In Studios
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 43%
WindForge is a side-scrolling block-building game where you explore hostile skies in an ever-changing Steampunk world. Everything you see can be created or destroyed, creating an RPG without barriers that rewards creative problem solving and improvisation.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Sandbox 17.4%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 10.6%, Building 10.5%
- #52 Pathless Woods
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,093 reviews2024
Dev: AniYa Games Studio
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Why similar: Base Building 14.8%, Open World 12.2%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 11.2%, Survival 11%
- #53 Block Story™
70% matchVery Positive83% of 1,973 reviews2015
Dev: Big Cube Interactive, LLC
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 45%
There isn’t much better than a wide open game world in which you have essentially no limits and can alter the very landscape in which you play – that is, unless you add dragons, of course…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Dragons 14.1% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 9.1%
- #54 Shamania
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.1% ★, Automation 14.4%, Open World 11%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9.5%
- #55 Enchanted Blacksmith
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: Tanuki Sun
Windows
Step into the boots of an aspiring blacksmith in a first-person sandbox where exploration and forging go hand in hand. Discover rare ores, master forgotten forging arts, and craft weapons of myth as you uncover secrets lost to time and claim your place among legends.
Why similar: Resource Management 19.6%, Crafting 17.9%, Sandbox 17.3%, Open World 16.9%, Exploration 10.4%
- #56 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 198 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits! The free prologue for the full game!
Why similar: Automation 17.5%, Open World Survival Craft 16.8% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 9%, Building 7.5%
- #57 The Unexpected Quest
69% matchVery Positive80% of 201 reviews2020
Dev: Rionix
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Adventure game with strategy and management elements in a medieval fantasy setting - drawing inspiration from classics such as Warcraft 3 and The Settlers. Embark on quests, hunt down treasures and manage your resources as you build, battle, cast magic and brew potions to bring order to the world.
Why similar: Base Building 29.3%, Building 20.2%, Crafting 16.6%, Management 16%, Exploration 10.6%
- #58 Elsewhere
65% matchVery Positive95% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
Explore, dig for resources, and build factories in a vibrant open world with quests for both technological and magical progression. Inspired by classic old-school Minecraft modpacks and featuring many new and unique features.
Why similar: Automation 22.3%, Sandbox 14.8%, Open World 14%, Survival 12.7%, Building 12.7%
- #59 AETHUS
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,163 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 15.2% ★, Automation 15%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 8.8%
- #60 Dragon And Home
68% matchMixed60% of 1,378 reviews2021
Dev: HIG
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Dragon and Home is a sandbox MMORPG where players can choose freely how they desire to play. Whether you want to play as a courageous adventurer, or you want to experience the tranquil rural lifestyles, growing plants, and feeding animals with your friends in the Homeland, you can find it all.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Open World 13.2%, Sandbox 12.6%, Survival 10.8%, Building 9.2%
