Games Like Eco

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 23.8%, Resource Management 16.1%, Sandbox 15.1%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the complex logistics and automation required to build a functioning society, much like the industrial progression in Eco.

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 18.3%, Open World Survival Craft 15.3% ★, Building 11.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 10%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a massive, collaborative-friendly environment for building intricate factories and managing resources on a planetary scale.

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 23.1%, Economy 21.3%, Resource Management 20.1%, Building 12.6%, Transportation 10.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on resource management and industrial efficiency, requiring players to balance production with environmental impact.

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: Science 21.3%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an intense focus on atmospheric and electrical systems that require deep technical knowledge to master.

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 38.5% ★, Sandbox 25%, Building 15.6%, Survival 6.3%, Open World 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A pioneer in deep, player-driven societal building and terraforming that shares Eco's emphasis on long-term community effort.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Survival 15.4%, Open World 11.9%, Sandbox 11.5%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features an incredibly deep simulation of survival mechanics and world interaction that rewards careful planning and cooperation.

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 20.7%, Nature 14.7%, Building 14.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: Introduces complex water management and environmental engineering mechanics that force players to adapt to a changing landscape.

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 26.5%, Building 20.1%, Resource Management 15.7%, Sandbox 14.9%, Open World 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges players to manage complex supply chains and planetary resources to achieve a massive technological goal.

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 35.9% ★, Building 11.5%, Base Building 10.4%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines cooperative survival with rewarding building mechanics in a world that feels alive and reactive to player presence.

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 12.4%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A robust multiplayer survival game that emphasizes base building and defense against environmental threats.

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 29.9% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Building 11%, Crafting 9.2%, Sandbox 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on the process of terraforming a hostile planet, mirroring the environmental transformation goals of Eco.

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 22.3%, Economy 19.9%, Building 12.4%, Resource Management 12.3%, Multiplayer 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer city-builder that requires balancing resource production and trade within a shared world.

Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.7% ★, Sandbox 14.9%, Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based multiplayer sandbox that features a player-driven economy and interconnected worlds.

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 33.9% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Open World 10.2%, Sandbox 9.5%, Survival 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Encourages cooperative exploration and base building with a focus on resource extraction and planetary manipulation.

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: Building 19%, Crafting 16.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 10.9%, Immersive Sim 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Blends survival with village management, allowing players to build a community and manage the needs of their citizens.

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 33.3% ★, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a vast, open-world survival experience with deep building mechanics that span multiple planets.

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

Why similar: Economy 19.5%, Sandbox 16%, Building 15.9%, Resource Management 13.5%, Base Building 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on organic city-building and resource management with a strong emphasis on societal structure.

The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Survival 16%, Crafting 13.9%, Building 11.4%, Open World 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Highlights the social and political dynamics of multiplayer survival, where player interaction dictates the state of the world.

Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Building 14.3%, Survival 13.2%, Open World 12.6%, Crafting 11%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a large-scale multiplayer survival experience with deep building mechanics and societal progression.

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: Building 20.6%, Sandbox 16.3%, Crafting 14.2%, Open World 12.2%, Base Building 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a creative sandbox for engineering and building complex machines that can automate various survival tasks.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Economy 20.6%, Base Building 17.1%, Nature 16.5%, Sandbox 15.2%, Crafting 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: A colony simulation that emphasizes building and survival in a historical setting, requiring careful planning to withstand environmental challenges.

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

Why similar: Base Building 16.3%, Building 15.7%, Open World 15.5%, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on long-term survival and taming, with significant emphasis on collaborative base building and resource gathering.

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 40.5% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.2%, Building 8.7%, Base Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic survival game that focuses on base building and managing resources in a hostile, unforgiving wilderness.

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 20.6%, Open World 20.5%, Survival 20%, Building 19.6%, Multiplayer 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival with the management of a growing settlement, emphasizing the transition from individual survival to societal leadership.

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 68.6% ★, Survival 18.6%, Multiplayer 4.3%, Open World 3.1%, Crafting 3%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging cooperative survival game that requires players to manage resources and work together to survive the seasons.

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 30.1% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 8.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that focuses on the tension between resource extraction and environmental hazards.

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 31.3% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 10.3%

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 22.2%, Building 18.7%, Sandbox 14.5%, Survival 14.4%, Open World 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person colony management game that requires players to defend and grow their population through resource management.

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 38.1% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that emphasizes realistic crafting and the necessity of working with others to build a functional settlement.

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: Building 17.6%, Base Building 16.9%, Economy 14.8%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on community building and crafting, emphasizing the social aspects of creating a sustainable living space.

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 22.8%, Building 15%, Resource Management 14.5%, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 10.8%

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: Building 27.7%, Sandbox 24.9%, Survival 15.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 7.8%

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 29.6% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Immersive Sim 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 23.7%, Building 18.1%, Sandbox 17.2%, Open World 11.4%, Survival 11.3%

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 16.6%, Building 15.6%, Sandbox 14.3%, Crafting 13.7%, Resource Management 12.5%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.2% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 9.3%, Building 9.2%

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% ★, Science 13.9%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 9.4%

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 29.1% ★, Economy 13.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 9.3%

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 23.1%, Building 20.8%, Survival 14.9%, Open World 10.5%, Simulation 9.6%

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 21.3%, Building 19.1%, Crafting 15.8%, Sandbox 14.6%, Survival 11.9%

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 16.8%, Sandbox 14.7%, Crafting 14.3%, Immersive Sim 12.9%, Resource Management 12.3%

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: Building 26.9%, Sandbox 21.7%, Open World 14.2%, Crafting 12.2%, Multiplayer 9.6%

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 31.1% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 8.7%, Building 8.5%

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Base Building 32.1%, Survival 16.9%, Building 13.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, Sandbox 8.2%

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 16.9% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Economy 12.9%, Resource Management 12.3%

Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.

Why similar: Base Building 19.1%, Building 18.9%, Sandbox 17.5%, Open World 13.4%, Survival 12%

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 28.4% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Economy 11.9%, Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.9%

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: Building 27.5%, Sandbox 26.1%, Survival 16.1%, Resource Management 12%, Open World 9.1%

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 22.2% ★, Building 21.3%, Sandbox 16.4%, Open World 15.4%, Crafting 11.2%

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 27.4% ★, Building 20.1%, Nature 15.2%, Immersive Sim 11.3%, Base Building 8.9%

A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.

Why similar: Trading 22.2%, Economy 21.1%, Building 19.1%, Sandbox 18.1%, Open World 12.9%

Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.

Why similar: Building 36.1%, Sandbox 27.3%, Simulation 15.4%, Open World 12.2%, Multiplayer 9%

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 16%, Sandbox 14.8%, Building 14.5%, Crafting 13.7%, Resource Management 12.9%

Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.

Why similar: Survival 17.8%, Open World 17.5%, Building 16.6%, Crafting 15.1%, Sandbox 13.7%

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: Base Building 26.6%, Survival 23.2%, Simulation 17.6%, Building 16.9%, Open World 9.9%

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 28.7% ★, Building 15.5%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 11%, Survival 10.3%

Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Building 13.4%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 11.1%

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 34% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 12.5%, Resource Management 11.1%, Sandbox 11%

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 23.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 13.6%, Resource Management 13.3%, Simulation 10.5%

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 30.5% ★, Base Building 12%, Nature 11.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 10.3%