Games Like Eco

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Base Building 27.5%, Resource Management 25%, Economy 17.4%, Transportation 12.5% ★, Agriculture 7.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on logistics, resource chains, and environmental management, requiring players to balance industrial growth with limited island resources.

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: Base Building 28%, Resource Management 19.7%, Crafting 15%, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Like Eco, this game centers on complex logistics and automation, requiring careful planning to scale your production without overwhelming the environment.

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: Base Building 22.7%, Open World Survival Craft 15.6% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Resource Management 12%, Open World 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a first-person perspective on large-scale factory building and resource management that mirrors the industrial progression found in Eco.

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Agriculture 18.8% ★, Science 18.7%, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 12%, Resource Management 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides an intense focus on engineering and atmospheric systems that will appeal to players who enjoy the technical depth of Eco's crafting.

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 31.1% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 11.8%, Resource Management 9.4%, Open World 9%

Why You'll Like It: Focusing on terraforming a barren world, this game shares the core loop of resource gathering and environmental transformation found in Eco.

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: Base Building 21.5%, Crafting 17.9%, Resource Management 16.8%, Open World 14.1%, Sandbox 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory-building game that emphasizes large-scale automation and exploration in a voxel-based open world.

A sandbox MMORPG that has pushed the boundaries on what it means to be open world and stood the test of time. Dig, mine, shape the world around you and make your lasting mark!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.3% ★, Sandbox 26.1%, Survival 8.4%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox MMO emphasizes community-driven civilization building and terraforming, closely matching the collaborative social structure of Eco.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Base Building 39.8%, Survival 20.2%, Sandbox 18.3%, Open World 14.1%, Simulation 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: While top-down, it excels at simulating the complex social and survival needs of a growing community, much like managing a society in Eco.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Crafting 19.1%, Agriculture 16.8% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Open World 10.4%, Survival 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends survival and city-building, tasking players with developing a community and managing the needs of its inhabitants over time.

A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

Why similar: Base Building 28.8%, Economy 17.8%, Resource Management 16.5%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Open World 10%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer city-builder that allows players to compete or cooperate in developing their civilizations, mirroring the diplomatic aspects of Eco.

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 34.8% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Open World 12.2%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and base-building with a unique terraforming mechanic that allows for significant environmental manipulation.

Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Open World 12.6%, Sandbox 11.1%, Survival 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a vast open-world survival experience with deep crafting and base-building mechanics across multiple planets.

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 10.2%, Open World 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that requires players to manage resources and build infrastructure under time pressure, similar to the meteor threat in Eco.

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: Base Building 37%, Resource Management 22.7%, Open World 18.3%, Sandbox 15.1%, Simulation 7%

Why You'll Like It: This game scales the automation and resource management concepts of Eco to an interstellar level, requiring massive logistical coordination.

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 11.5%, Survival 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly rewarding cooperative survival experience with a strong emphasis on building and shared progression through a dangerous world.

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Sandbox 29.7%, Survival 23.4%, Crafting 20.4%, Open World 12.3%, Simulation 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A charming colony-sim that focuses on building and managing a growing settlement, providing a lighter take on the management aspects of Eco.

Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Economy 12.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that relies heavily on player cooperation and a complex social hierarchy to build and defend settlements.

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 25.2% ★, Agriculture 18.8% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.4%, Resource Management 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A peaceful open-world farming and base-building game that emphasizes environmental restoration and exploration.

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Crafting 20.2%, Sandbox 16.8%, Base Building 16.5%, Open World 16.4%, Survival 14.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on creative engineering and building, allowing players to construct complex machines and vehicles to solve survival challenges.

Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!

Why similar: Sandbox 25.2%, Open World 21.6%, Crafting 19.6%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Survival 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game features advanced physics-based building and structural integrity mechanics that appeal to those who enjoy the construction depth of Eco.

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: Base Building 23.1%, Crafting 20.2%, Sandbox 14.9%, Open World 13.9%, Survival 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: A unique steampunk survival game where you build and upgrade a mobile base to survive environmental hazards.

A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Science 14.4%, Crafting 12%, Open World 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A high-tech survival game where you build and manage a mobile airship base while exploring a ruined, environmentally changed Earth.

Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

Why similar: Base Building 29.1%, Resource Management 18.9%, Crafting 14.1%, Sandbox 10.8%, Multiplayer 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based colony simulation that focuses on automation and logistics to keep your floating base functional.

CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Agriculture 18.3% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Economy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi multiplayer survival game that features a robust tech tree and base-building mechanics in a persistent world.

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.5% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 10.4%, Open World 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging open-world survival game that focuses on building a base and defending it against both AI and environmental threats.

Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Why similar: Base Building 29.3%, Crafting 21.8%, Survival 15.1%, Sandbox 14.5%, Open World 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on the early stages of human civilization, requiring players to manage resources and labor to advance their tribe.

Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.

Why similar: Base Building 20.5%, Crafting 17.7%, Resource Management 17.2%, Open World 14.3%, Sandbox 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: A highly technical survival game that requires meticulous resource management and base construction to survive on a hostile planet.

Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 9.5%, Sandbox 9.4%

StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 8.5%

Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

Why similar: Diplomacy 23.2% ★, Political Sim 18.7% ★, Science 13.8%, Base Building 11%, Nature 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game directly tackles the theme of balancing industrial expansion with planetary health, requiring players to manage environmental impact.

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 31.4% ★, Base Building 16%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 9.9%, Open World 9.8%

Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 9.2%, Resource Management 9%

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: Science 24.2%, Base Building 19.5%, Nature 14.7%, Sandbox 13.3%, Resource Management 12.8%

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Base Building 18.9%, Crafting 16.2%, Resource Management 14.4%, Open World 12.3%, Sandbox 12%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.9% ★, Crafting 16%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 9.4%, Sandbox 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes crafting and base-building with a focus on exploration and progression.

The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.

Why similar: Base Building 20.5%, Crafting 17.5%, Open World 15.4%, Resource Management 14.9%, Sandbox 14.7%

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 26.6% ★, Agriculture 17.4% ★, Crafting 15.7%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 9.2%

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Why similar: Diplomacy 26.7% ★, Agriculture 18.2% ★, Trading 15.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 9.6%

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: Resource Management 33.2%, Survival 18.9%, Open World 13.8%, Crafting 10.2%, Simulation 9.3%

Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.

Why similar: Science 29.2%, Sandbox 18%, Crafting 15.6%, Open World 15.6%, Survival 14.9%

As the leader of a company specialized in restoring sites devastated by natural disasters, use your construction machinery to restart the local industry. Clear debris and faulty equipment, rebuild roads and bridges damaged by weather, and much more!

Why similar: Transportation 40.3% ★, Nature 15.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Immersive Sim 11.6%, Multiplayer 11.1%

A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.

Why similar: Trading 29.9%, Base Building 20.2%, Crafting 14.5%, Immersive Sim 12.1%, Survival 11.2%

Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Open World 22%, Sandbox 17.9%, Crafting 16.9%, Multiplayer 8.2%

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: Diplomacy 27.1% ★, Trading 18.3%, Economy 12.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 10.4%

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: Base Building 24.3%, Resource Management 15.2%, Economy 14.7%, Sandbox 13.4%, Agriculture 12.8% ★

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.2% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Open World 11.2%, Survival 11%, Crafting 9.8%

Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.

Why similar: Base Building 28.7%, Crafting 26.6%, Sandbox 18.2%, Open World 17.7%, Simulation 8.8%

Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Crafting 15%, Open World 13.5%, Sandbox 11.2%, Survival 10.8%

Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

Why similar: Crafting 28%, Open World 26.5%, Survival 24.8%, Multiplayer 14.3%, Simulation 6.4%

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Transportation 21.4% ★, Base Building 19.8%, Resource Management 15.6%, Crafting 15.1%, Sandbox 12.2%

Set sail for the ultimate pirate experience! Embark on a grand adventure alongside thousands of other players in one of the largest game worlds ever built (and even claim a piece of it to call your own). Build your ship, assemble your crew, sail the high seas, and become a pirate legend!

Why similar: Open World 22%, Crafting 21.5%, Survival 20.4%, Base Building 14.1%, Multiplayer 11.5%

Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!

Why similar: Base Building 23.7%, Crafting 20.8%, Economy 14.3%, Sandbox 13.5%, Resource Management 9.7%

Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.

Why similar: Sandbox 18.2%, Agriculture 17.8% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 14.6%, Survival 13.2%

Join thousands of players in a true single-world MMORPG. Carve out a cozy nook, master a player-driven economy, or band together to transform the ancient wilderness into thriving cities. From humble beginnings to legend, your choices matter - because in BitCraft, your actions shape our world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.6% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Sandbox 14%, Crafting 13.7%, Open World 10.6%

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: Resource Management 20.1%, Economy 19.2%, Sandbox 16.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Simulation 10%

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Why similar: Agriculture 27.7% ★, Base Building 18.4%, Economy 16.3%, Resource Management 15.8%, Immersive Sim 12%

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

Why similar: Base Building 29.9%, Survival 17.9%, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 13.1%, Crafting 12.5%

Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Base Building 15%, Crafting 13.7%, Resource Management 12.1%, Nature 10.3%

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: Base Building 25.4%, Crafting 21.9%, Sandbox 19.5%, Resource Management 13.8%, Multiplayer 13.2%