- #1 The Planet Crafter
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.6% ★, Automation 11.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 7.5%, Online Co-Op 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It is the most similar experience, focusing heavily on terraforming a barren planet through automation and base expansion.
- #2 Satisfactory
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 21.8%, Base Building 15.9%, Open World Survival Craft 11.8% ★, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This is the premier automation game that shares the same focus on building massive, efficient factories in a beautiful, alien open world.
- #3 Techtonica
96% matchMixed65% of 3,183 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 26.5%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar first-person automation experience set in a vast, bioluminescent underground alien world.
- #4 FOUNDRY
95% matchVery Positive81% of 3,508 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 19.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that mirrors the building and resource-chain complexity found in Eden Crafters.
- #5 ASTRONEER
94% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Open World 8.3%, Automation 8.2%, Space 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the spirit of space exploration and modular base building with a focus on terraforming and resource gathering.
- #6 Astro Colony
94% matchVery Positive82% of 2,509 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Automation 21.9%, Base Building 16.8%, Colony Sim 11.7% ★, Space 8.4%, Crafting 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on building and automating interconnected space stations while managing resources in a sandbox environment.
- #7 Forever Skies
93% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 27% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 8.4%, Co-op 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival game that features a mobile base and a focus on restoring a ruined, toxic ecosystem.
- #8 Lightyear Frontier
92% matchVery Positive84% of 4,206 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 27.1% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Sandbox 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It combines mech-based exploration and farming with base building on a peaceful, yet mysterious, alien planet.
- #9 Dyson Sphere Program
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 30%, Base Building 18.7%, Space 11%, Building 9.8%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on logistics, it provides the ultimate scale for automation and planetary engineering in a sci-fi setting.
- #10 Factorio
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 188.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 31.8%, Base Building 19.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 9.3%, Resource Management 9%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for automation games, offering deep production chains and survival elements against a hostile environment.
- #11 TerraTech Worlds
90% matchMixed63% of 2,175 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Automation 11.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building modular vehicles and bases to survive and thrive in a vast, alien sandbox environment.
- #12 ICARUS
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 29.5% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 9.5%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Survival 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that emphasizes building, crafting, and terraforming-like missions on a dangerous planet.
- #13 Volcanoids
89% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique drill-ship base that you must automate and upgrade to survive volcanic eruptions on a hostile island.
- #14 Space Trash Scavenger
87% matchVery Positive84% of 514 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Automation 17.9%, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 8.1%, Sandbox 7%
Why You'll Like It: It blends survival and automation as you build a base on a space rig while scavenging resources from debris.
- #15 Stationeers
88% matchVery Positive88% of 8,897 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 81.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Automation 19.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Colony Sim 11.2% ★, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A more hardcore take on space survival that requires complex automation of atmospheric and electrical systems.
- #16 StarRupture
86% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 21.8% ★, Automation 15.6%, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 8.1%, Colony Sim 7.7% ★
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that emphasizes building and automation to overcome the challenges of a volatile alien planet.
- #17 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,087 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 29.7% ★, Crafting 9.7%, Building 9.5%, Co-op 8.6%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a comprehensive space survival experience with deep base building and planetary exploration mechanics.
- #18 Voidtrain
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,176 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.5% ★, Base Building 11%, Crafting 9.1%, Online Co-Op 7.7%, Co-op 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A creative survival game where you build and automate a train while traversing a surreal, interdimensional landscape.
- #19 Occupy Mars: The Game
84% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,012 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 12.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Colony Sim 10.2% ★, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A highly technical survival game focused on the realistic challenges of building and maintaining a colony on Mars.
- #20 Omega Crafter
83% matchMostly Positive79% of 560 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Automation 20.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 8.3%, Survival 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world survival with automation, allowing players to use programmable companions to build their base.
- #21 Astrometica
82% matchVery Positive83% of 2,970 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
Why similar: Automation 19%, Open World Survival Craft 17.1% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A space-based survival game that focuses on building and maintaining a base while floating in zero-gravity debris fields.
- #22 Subnautica
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 40.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.7% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 10%
Why You'll Like It: While less focused on automation, it is the definitive sci-fi survival and base-building experience on an alien world.
- #23 Raft
80% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.4% ★, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 9.8%, Base Building 9%, Co-op 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-building game that forces you to expand your base while gathering resources from a vast, endless ocean.
- #24 Hydroneer
81% matchVery Positive86% of 27,097 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Automation 25.5%, Base Building 18%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 9.8%, Open World 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A unique mining and automation game that focuses on building elaborate mechanical systems to extract resources.
- #25 Scrapnaut
81% matchMostly Positive70% of 824 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Building 10.9%, Base Building 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Crafting 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that emphasizes base building and resource management in a stylized, dangerous world.
- #26 No Man's Sky
79% matchVery Positive85% of 402,164 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.2 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Open World 13.1%, Space 11.8%, Sandbox 8%, Survival 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an unparalleled scale of exploration, base building, and resource management across countless procedurally generated planets.
- #27 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
77% matchVery Positive91% of 7,161 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 24% ★, Automation 13.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 7.7%, Online Co-Op 6.6%
- #28 shapez
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,210 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Automation 31.1%, Base Building 17.7%, Crafting 13.1%, Sandbox 11.6%, Resource Management 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A pure automation game that strips away survival elements to focus entirely on the satisfaction of complex production chains.
- #29 Autonauts
78% matchVery Positive90% of 4,915 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Why similar: Automation 35.4%, Base Building 16.4%, Colony Sim 13.4% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the automation aspect by allowing you to program robots to perform repetitive tasks for base development.
- #30 Cubic Odyssey
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,483 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 9%, Building 8.4%, Co-op 7.1%
- #31 Skyformer
76% matchVery Positive90% of 59 reviews2025
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Automation 17.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 9%, Building 7%
- #32 Planet Explorers
79% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Open World 11.1%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: An older but deep sandbox game that allows for extensive terraforming and building on a hostile alien planet.
- #33 Blossom: The Seed of Life
75% matchVery Positive90% of 654 reviews2026
Dev: Pebbledust GamesPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Automation 13.6%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #34 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,643 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Automation 9.1%, Survival 8.1%
- #35 Survival Machine
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Building 7.9%
- #36 Outworld Station
74% matchVery Positive90% of 506 reviews2025
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Space 9.7%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #37 Star Crafter
74% matchMixed69% of 104 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Automation 14.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Space 6.5%
- #38 ASKA
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 11,320 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.1% ★, Automation 11.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Colony Sim 9.3% ★, Online Co-Op 7.3%
- #39 Alchemy Factory
71% matchVery Positive90% of 2,078 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!
Why similar: Automation 30.7%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 11.1%
- #40 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
72% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 9.7%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Building 7.8%
- #41 Horizon Journey
73% matchMostly Negative25% of 81 reviews2026
Dev: Redivided Studios
Windows
Embark on an epic adventure to Mars in Horizon Journey, an open-world survival game that blends colonization, terraforming, and exploration in both single-player and multiplayer co-op modes. You're tasked with the monumental challenge of making Mars a new home for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 9.7%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #42 Tinkerlands
70% matchVery Positive86% of 3,746 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 8.6%
- #43 Nova Lands
70% matchVery Positive89% of 3,351 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.4% ★, Automation 20.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #44 Solace Crafting
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 11.3%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Open World 7.8%
- #45 Soulmask
69% matchVery Positive81% of 17,627 reviews2024
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 66.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.3% ★, Automation 15.6%, Colony Sim 9.5% ★, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 8%
- #46 Planetaries
71% matchMixed59% of 222 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 9.9%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Building 8.1%
- #47 XenoHaven
69% matchVery Positive86% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Automation 10.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 9.1%
- #48 The Last Caretaker
68% matchVery Positive85% of 9,793 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Automation 24.9%, Base Building 17.3%, Crafting 14.4%, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 10.8%
- #49 Breathedge
70% matchVery Positive82% of 16,026 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Space 9.7%, Sandbox 9.6%, Crafting 8.9%
- #50 FortressCraft Evolved!
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,055 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Automation 19.8%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 8.5%, Base Building 8.3%
- #51 Dawn of Defiance
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,736 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Online Co-Op 11%, Survival 8.4%, Crafting 7.7%
- #52 Shamania
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Automation 12.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 8.5%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #53 Aloft
66% matchVery Positive84% of 3,496 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 28.8% ★, Crafting 15.3%, Building 12.1%, Survival 10.2%, Co-op 9.8%
- #54 The Crust
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Automation 23%, Base Building 16%, Colony Sim 13.4% ★, Sandbox 9.1%, Space 9%
- #55 Lost Skies
67% matchMixed62% of 2,832 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 8%
- #56 Sunkenland
66% matchVery Positive81% of 22,996 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.3% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9.5%, Co-op 9.4%
- #57 Evospace
68% matchVery Positive82% of 387 reviews2019
Dev: Quantum Rivet
Windows · Mac
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: Automation 23.1%, Base Building 18.5%, Crafting 16.8%, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 11.1%
- #58 Farworld Pioneers
69% matchMostly Negative38% of 691 reviews2023
Dev: IgloosoftPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Colony Sim 10.5% ★, Crafting 9.7%, Co-op 8.3%
