Games Like 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 22.8%, Open World Survival Craft 15.8% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Open World 11.9%, Resource Management 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a massive 3D world focused on building intricate factories and managing resource chains.

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 19% ★, Science 18.7%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 12%, Resource Management 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides extreme technical complexity, requiring players to manage atmospheric, electrical, and mechanical systems.

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 28.3%, Resource Management 19.3%, Crafting 15.1%, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for complex logistics and automation, mirroring the industrial progression found in 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 27.9%, Resource Management 24%, Economy 16.9%, Transportation 13.3% ★, Agriculture 8% ★

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on industrial logistics, resource extraction, and managing the environmental impact of your production lines.

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 31.4% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 9.1%, Resource Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the core goal of terraforming a hostile world through collective effort and resource management.

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 36.7%, Resource Management 21.9%, Open World 18.3%, Sandbox 14.9%, Simulation 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It scales up the resource management and automation concepts to a galactic level, requiring careful planning and logistics.

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 20.3%, Sandbox 18.3%, Open World 14.2%, Simulation 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It excels at colony management and social dynamics, simulating the challenges of keeping a group of people alive and productive.

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%, Agriculture 16.8% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Open World 10.5%, Survival 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on building a community from scratch and managing resources over generations.

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 37.6% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Open World 12.7%, Survival 11.1%, Sandbox 11%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a comprehensive space-faring survival experience with extensive building and crafting options.

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 21.7%, Crafting 18%, Resource Management 16.4%, Open World 14.4%, Sandbox 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on large-scale automation and base building within a fully destructible voxel world.

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 34.9% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Open World 12.3%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes exploration, crafting, and base building in a vibrant, sandbox environment.

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 38% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 11.5%, Survival 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a rewarding collaborative survival and building experience where players must work together to progress.

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 28.9%, Economy 17.6%, Resource Management 16.2%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Open World 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It brings the multiplayer city-building aspect to the forefront, allowing players to compete or cooperate in a shared world.

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 32.2% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 9.5%, Sandbox 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on terraforming and automation, challenging players to transform a barren world.

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 35.7% ★, Survival 18%, Open World 14.5%, Sandbox 10.5%, Multiplayer 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides an incredibly deep and realistic survival simulation that rewards careful planning and resource management.

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 34.3% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Survival 15%, Open World 12.2%, Sandbox 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines base building and survival mechanics with a strong emphasis on multiplayer cooperation.

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 29.6%, Survival 23.5%, Crafting 20.3%, Open World 12.5%, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on colony management and creative building in a charming, stylized environment.

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 29.3%, Resource Management 18.4%, Crafting 14.1%, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines automation with colony management, requiring players to build and maintain a functional space base.

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 30% ★, Survival 18.8%, Crafting 17.8%, Open World 13.4%, Multiplayer 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It highlights the social dynamics and multiplayer survival aspects that are central to the Eco experience.

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 25.1% ★, Agriculture 18.4% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Economy 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi take on multiplayer survival that features deep crafting and technology progression.

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 30.9% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 10.2%, Open World 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides session-based survival and resource extraction that requires teamwork to succeed.

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 25.4% ★, Agriculture 18.8% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.4%, Resource Management 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a peaceful, mech-based approach to base building and farming on an alien world.

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 41.2% ★, Crafting 14.9%, Open World 13.6%, Sandbox 11.1%, Survival 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes realistic survival and community building within a harsh, medieval-inspired setting.

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 41.7% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Open World 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on long-term survival and base building in a realistic, open-world environment.

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: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 12.7%, Resource Management 11.2%, Open World 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes engineering and survival on a hostile planet, requiring careful resource management.

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: Open World 22.9%, Survival 22.4%, Crafting 20.7%, Sandbox 13.5%, Multiplayer 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features large-scale multiplayer survival and nomadic base building on a dying planet.

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 18.6% ★, Science 13.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Nature 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on environmental management and planetary sustainability, mirroring the core theme of Eco.

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 28.5% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 8.5%

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 32.6%, Survival 19.1%, Open World 14.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Simulation 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy city builder that incorporates survival elements and resource management.

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 26.3% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Science 14.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 9.6%

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 31.7% ★, Base Building 16%, Crafting 13.5%, Open World 9.9%, Sandbox 9.7%

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 31.5% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 11%, Open World 9.2%, Resource Management 8.7%

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 19%, Crafting 16.3%, Resource Management 14%, Open World 12.5%, Sandbox 11.9%

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 21.7%, Survival 15.1%, Sandbox 14.4%, Open World 13.5%

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 20.1%, Sandbox 16.7%, Base Building 16.6%, Open World 16.5%, Survival 14.1%

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 25.1%, Open World 21.9%, Crafting 19.6%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Survival 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on physics-based construction and structural integrity, perfect for those who enjoy the building aspect of Eco.

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 40%, Survival 19.4%, Resource Management 15.3%, Sandbox 7.4%, Open World 7.1%

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 19.7%, Nature 14.7%, Sandbox 13.3%, Resource Management 12.6%

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 31.4% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Economy 11.9%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 9.9%

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 28.9%, Sandbox 17.9%, Open World 15.9%, Crafting 15.6%, Survival 15%

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 20.6%, Crafting 17.5%, Open World 15.7%, Sandbox 14.7%, Resource Management 14.5%

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 20.1%, Sandbox 14.8%, Open World 14.1%, Survival 12.7%

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 21.5% ★, Base Building 20%, Resource Management 15.3%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 12.3%

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 31.6% ★, Base Building 15%, Crafting 13.7%, Resource Management 11.7%, Nature 10.3%

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 26.7% ★, Agriculture 17.4% ★, Crafting 15.6%, Survival 10.8%, 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 26.6% ★, Agriculture 18.4% ★, Trading 15.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.7%

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 27.4% ★, Open World 22.1%, Sandbox 17.8%, Crafting 16.9%, Multiplayer 8.1%

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 27.2% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 10.9%, Multiplayer 9.7%

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%, Open World 13.3%, Crafting 12.5%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Crafting 15.9%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 9.5%, Sandbox 9.1%

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 27.8%, Open World 26.9%, Survival 24.9%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Simulation 6.3%

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: Agriculture 19.7% ★, Survival 17.7%, Base Building 16.5%, Sandbox 14.6%, Resource Management 13.9%

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 27.2% ★, Trading 18.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Economy 12.1%, Resource Management 10.2%

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! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.7% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 13%, Open World 9.4%, Survival 9.1%

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 40.1% ★, Nature 15.9%, Base Building 12.8%, 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 29.6%, Base Building 20.2%, Crafting 14.5%, Immersive Sim 12.1%, Survival 11.3%

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 19.7%, Economy 18.9%, Sandbox 16.9%, Base Building 16.4%, Simulation 10%

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 24.5%, Resource Management 14.9%, Economy 14.5%, Sandbox 13.5%, Agriculture 12.9% ★

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 22.2%, Crafting 21.4%, Survival 20.5%, Base Building 14.1%, Multiplayer 11.4%

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 18.1%, Open World 17.9%, Simulation 8.8%