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 16.4%, Sandbox 15%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 8.7%

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 15.1% ★, Building 11.8%, Crafting 11.6%, 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 23.6%, Economy 20.9%, Resource Management 20.1%, Building 12.2%, Transportation 10% ★

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 21.2% ★, 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 38.2% ★, Sandbox 25.1%, 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 34.1% ★, 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 23% ★, Nature 16.2%, Building 15.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 14.8%

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 26.8%, Building 20.3%, Resource Management 16.2%, Sandbox 15.1%, 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 35.6% ★, Building 11.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 9.3%

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 31.8% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 12.4%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.2%

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

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 18.9%, Crafting 16.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Immersive Sim 10.9%, Sandbox 10.9%

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

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 29.4% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Building 11%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 8.4%

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

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 39.4% ★, Sandbox 15%, Building 12.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 11.1%

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

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 22.2%, Economy 20.3%, Resource Management 12.4%, Building 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.

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 33.7% ★, Base Building 11.3%, 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.

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% ★, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 9.6%

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

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 28.2% ★, Survival 16%, Crafting 14%, 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.

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

Why similar: Economy 19.8%, Sandbox 15.9%, Building 15.7%, Resource Management 13.7%, Base Building 11.2%

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

An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Building 14.4%, Survival 13.2%, Open World 12.6%, Crafting 11.2%

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

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 20.9%, Base Building 17.1%, Nature 16.5%, Sandbox 15.1%, 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.

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 20.5%, Sandbox 16.3%, Crafting 14.2%, Open World 12.1%, 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.

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 16.5%, Building 15.7%, Open World 15.3%, Survival 15.1%, 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.

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 68.5% ★, 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.

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 20.9%, Open World 20.4%, Survival 19.7%, Building 19.6%, Multiplayer 11.6%

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

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 29.8% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 8.9%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 8.7%

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

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 18.6%, 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.

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 40.3% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10.2%, Building 8.7%, Base Building 8.4%

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

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 32.1% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 10.7%

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 37.8% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 11.4%, 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.

Space Engineers 2 is a sandbox about engineering and colonization where you build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible world. Begin the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol, expand humanity’s foothold in the Almagest system, and fight to survive.

Why similar: Science 23.8% ★, Building 18%, Sandbox 17.2%, Open World 11.3%, Survival 11.2%

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 17.4%, Base Building 16.9%, Economy 15%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 13%

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

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 27.6%, Sandbox 25%, Survival 15.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 7.8%

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 16.5%, Building 15.5%, Sandbox 14.3%, Crafting 13.7%, Resource Management 12.8%

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 21.4%, Building 19%, Crafting 15.8%, Sandbox 14.6%, Survival 11.9%

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 29.2% ★, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Immersive Sim 9.4%

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 22.7%, Building 14.9%, Resource Management 14.8%, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 10.8%

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 26.8%, Sandbox 21.7%, Open World 14.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Multiplayer 9.6%

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 25.7% ★, Science 13.9% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 9.8%, 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 28.8% ★, Economy 13.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 9.3%

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 31.4% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 9.1%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 9.3%, Building 9.2%

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 22% ★, Building 21.3%, Sandbox 16.5%, Open World 15.4%, Crafting 11.3%

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 22.3% ★, Economy 21.4%, Building 18.9%, Sandbox 18%, Open World 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 22.2%, Sandbox 19.5%, Crafting 18.7%, Open World 15.6%, Survival 14%

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 25.6% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 9.5%, Survival 9.2%, Open World 9%

Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 8.4%

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 23.6%, Building 20.6%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 10.4%, Simulation 9.6%

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 28.1% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Economy 12.1%, Building 11.3%, Crafting 11%

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 17.7%, Open World 17.3%, Building 16.5%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 13.8%

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 14.4%, Crafting 13.8%, Resource Management 13.2%

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 19.8%, Nature 15.2%, Immersive Sim 11.6%, Base Building 9%

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 13.7%, Economy 13.1%, Resource Management 12.5%

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 34.1% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Building 13.4%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 11.1%

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 28.4% ★, Building 15.5%, Crafting 13.9%, Sandbox 11%, Survival 10.3%

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 19.2%, Building 18.8%, Sandbox 17.5%, Open World 13.3%, Survival 11.9%

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 30.3% ★, Crafting 15.7%, Open World 14.7%, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 10.5%

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 34.4%, Sandbox 27.2%, Simulation 16.3%, Open World 13.2%, Multiplayer 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 27.4%, Sandbox 26.1%, Survival 16%, Resource Management 12.3%, Open World 9.1%