- #1 The Planet Crafter
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 22.1% ★, Automation 11.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 7.4%, Online Co-Op 6.8%
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 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 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 20.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Open World Survival Craft 11.7% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 7.5%
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 FOUNDRY
96% matchVery Positive81% of 3,779 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 46.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 18.4%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 8.2%, Online Co-Op 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that mirrors the building and resource-chain complexity found in Eden Crafters.
- #4 Techtonica
95% matchMixed65% of 3,202 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.2 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 24.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar first-person automation experience set in a vast, bioluminescent underground alien world.
- #5 ASTRONEER
94% matchVery Positive92% of 137,959 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.2 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 27.3% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Open World 8%, Automation 7.8%, Space 7.6%
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 2,526 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 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 20.9%, Base Building 16.3%, Colony Sim 11.4%, Space 8.2%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on building and automating interconnected space stations while managing resources in a sandbox environment.
- #7 Dyson Sphere Program
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,697 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.1 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 29.5%, Base Building 18.6%, Space 11.1%, 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.
- #8 Forever Skies
92% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 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 26.5% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 8.1%, Co-op 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival game that features a mobile base and a focus on restoring a ruined, toxic ecosystem.
- #9 Lightyear Frontier
91% matchVery Positive84% of 4,457 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 27.6% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 11%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, 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.
- #10 Factorio
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 229,554 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 190.4 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 30.7%, Base Building 18.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 9.1%, Resource Management 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for automation games, offering deep production chains and survival elements against a hostile environment.
- #11 ICARUS
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 63,962 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 28.8% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 8.3%, Online Co-Op 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that emphasizes building, crafting, and terraforming-like missions on a dangerous planet.
- #12 TerraTech Worlds
89% matchMixed63% of 2,228 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.9 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 23.3% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Automation 10.6%, Crafting 8.8%, Sandbox 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building modular vehicles and bases to survive and thrive in a vast, alien sandbox environment.
- #13 Space Trash Scavenger
88% matchVery Positive84% of 518 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 26.3% ★, Automation 17.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Base Building 8%, Sandbox 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It blends survival and automation as you build a base on a space rig while scavenging resources from debris.
- #14 Stationeers
89% matchVery Positive88% of 9,014 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 83.9 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 18.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Colony Sim 10.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A more hardcore take on space survival that requires complex automation of atmospheric and electrical systems.
- #15 StarRupture
86% matchVery Positive81% of 12,313 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 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 21.6% ★, Automation 15%, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 7.8%, Colony Sim 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that emphasizes building and automation to overcome the challenges of a volatile alien planet.
- #16 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
87% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,194 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.8 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 29.1% ★, Crafting 9.3%, Building 9.2%, Co-op 8.2%, Space 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a comprehensive space survival experience with deep base building and planetary exploration mechanics.
- #17 Voidtrain
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,447 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 14.0 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 34.5% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Online Co-Op 7.4%, Co-op 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A creative survival game where you build and automate a train while traversing a surreal, interdimensional landscape.
- #18 Occupy Mars: The Game
84% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,070 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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.
- #19 Volcanoids
85% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 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: Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 14.3%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9.9%
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.
- #20 Omega Crafter
83% matchMostly Positive80% of 566 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% ★, Automation 19%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 8%, Survival 7%
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 3,055 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 17.3 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 18.6%, Open World Survival Craft 17.4% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 9.9%
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 Hydroneer
82% matchVery Positive86% of 27,793 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 21.9 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 24.3%, Base Building 17.3%, Sandbox 11%, Building 9.4%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: A unique mining and automation game that focuses on building elaborate mechanical systems to extract resources.
- #23 Subnautica
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 365,018 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 39.3 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 40.1% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 9.7%
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.
- #24 Raft
79% matchVery Positive93% of 372,032 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.3 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 35% ★, Survival 11%, Crafting 9.2%, Base Building 8.5%, Co-op 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-building game that forces you to expand your base while gathering resources from a vast, endless ocean.
- #25 Scrapnaut
81% matchMixed70% of 827 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 23.2% ★, Building 10.5%, Base Building 9.4%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Crafting 8.9%
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 406,987 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 40.2% ★, Open World 12.6%, Space 11.4%, Sandbox 7.6%, Survival 7.3%
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 7,431 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 23.6% ★, Automation 13.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 7.4%, Online Co-Op 6.3%
- #28 shapez
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,453 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 30.9%, Base Building 17.8%, Crafting 13.1%, Sandbox 11.6%, Resource Management 9.3%
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 Planet Explorers
80% 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 40.3% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: An older but deep sandbox game that allows for extensive terraforming and building on a hostile alien planet.
- #30 Autonauts
78% matchVery Positive90% of 4,933 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.9 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%, Base Building 16.5%, Colony Sim 13.6%, 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.
- #31 Blossom: The Seed of Life
76% matchVery Positive89% of 884 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 26.4% ★, Automation 13.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #32 Skyformer
77% matchVery Positive87% of 67 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 24.1% ★, Automation 17.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 9%, Building 7%
- #33 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,680 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 27.7% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Automation 8.6%, Survival 7.8%
- #34 Outworld Station
75% matchVery Positive86% of 714 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 10.3 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 24.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Space 9.6%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #35 Cubic Odyssey
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,584 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 32.4% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 9.3%, Co-op 7.7%
- #36 Alchemy Factory
73% matchVery Positive90% of 2,293 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 23.1 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 29.8%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 10.7%
- #37 Nova Lands
74% matchVery Positive89% of 3,422 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.3 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 22.9% ★, Automation 19.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 8.2%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #38 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 25.4% ★, Automation 14.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Space 6.5%
- #39 Soulmask
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 21,464 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 68.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.9% ★, Automation 14.2%, Base Building 10.2%, Colony Sim 9.2%, Crafting 7.2%
- #40 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
71% matchVery Positive82% of 9,989 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 26.6% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Building 7.5%
- #41 ASKA
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 11,689 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 28.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 20.9% ★, Automation 11.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Colony Sim 9.1%, Online Co-Op 7%
- #42 Solace Crafting
72% 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 27.8% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.8%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Open World 7.6%
- #43 FortressCraft Evolved!
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,057 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 31.3% ★, Automation 19.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 8.3%, Base Building 8.1%
- #44 XenoHaven
69% matchVery Positive86% of 69 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 23.6% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Automation 10.2%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 9%
- #45 Outpath
69% matchVery Positive93% of 2,948 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Automation 16.7%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #46 Plan B: Terraform
67% matchVery Positive91% of 3,512 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Base Building 14.6%, Colony Sim 14.5%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 10%
- #47 Farworld Pioneers
72% matchMostly Negative38% of 693 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 24.3% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Colony Sim 10.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Co-op 8%
- #48 AETHUS
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,744 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.8% ★, Automation 13.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #49 Shamania
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 145 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% ★, Automation 12.3%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 8.3%, Sandbox 6.9%
- #50 Planetaries
70% matchMixed58% of 223 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 26.3% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 9.5%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Building 7.8%
- #51 Lost Skies
68% matchMixed61% of 2,893 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 39.3% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 7.9%
- #52 Modulus: Factory Automation
66% matchVery Positive92% of 699 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 10.2%
- #53 Force of Nature
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 8.4%, Open World 7.6%
- #54 Horizon Journey
69% matchMostly Negative26% of 85 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 24% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.6%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #55 The Crust
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,542 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 22.7%, Base Building 16.1%, Colony Sim 13.6%, Space 9.1%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #56 Aloft
66% matchVery Positive84% of 3,576 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 28.1% ★, Crafting 14.6%, Building 11.5%, Survival 9.8%, Co-op 9.4%
- #57 Outpost Zero
70% matchMixed49% of 850 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Base Building 13%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.7%
- #58 The Last Caretaker
64% matchVery Positive86% of 11,047 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 32.0 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%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 9.9%
