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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Crafting, Exploration, Sandbox, Building.

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Explore, dig for resources, and build factories in a vibrant open world with quests for both technological and magical progression. Inspired by classic old-school Minecraft modpacks and featuring many new and unique features.

Reviews: Very Positive — 95% — of 64 reviews
Released: 2025-10-24
Developer: Four White Cats
Genres: Indie, Early Access
Platforms: Windows

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    97% 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 25.7%, Crafting 15.3%, Open World 14.1%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 11.9%

  2. #2 Orebound
    96% matchMostly Positive78% of 849 reviews2024
    Dev: Emberforge
    Windows
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Orebound is a voxel, factory, automation game set in a first person open-world. The King has tasked you to locate the elusive Emberstone. Go forth and use your Dwarven prowess and knowledge to mine, craft and automate through anything standing in your way - Build up or dig down! How far will you go?

    Why similar: Mining 20.3%, Automation 17.2%, Crafting 12.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 9.7%

  3. #3 Enchanted Blacksmith
    96% matchMostly Positive79% of 66 reviews2023
    Dev: Tanuki Sun
    Windows

    Step into the boots of an aspiring blacksmith in a first-person sandbox where exploration and forging go hand in hand. Discover rare ores, master forgotten forging arts, and craft weapons of myth as you uncover secrets lost to time and claim your place among legends.

    Why similar: Mining 29.5%, Crafting 16.5%, Sandbox 14.5%, Open World 12.2%, Immersive Sim 9.7%

  4. #4 TerraTech Worlds
    95% 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: Mining 18.9%, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 12.4%, Automation 11.5%, Open World 10.6%

  5. #5 Techtonica
    94% 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 28.2%, Building 16.1%, Sandbox 15.5%, Crafting 14.7%, Immersive Sim 8.4%

  6. #6 Outerverse
    94% matchMixed51% of 124 reviews2022
    Dev: Tbjbu2Pub: indie.io
    Windows

    Build automated machines and weapons across the universe, beat massive bosses, experience cosmic events and explore unique landmarks in this quest driven automation crafting adventure game. Includes a manual scenario for crafting instead of machines for those not a fan of logic/automation!

    Why similar: Mining 28.5%, Automation 23%, Crafting 15.9%, Open World 13.7%, Exploration 7.3%

  7. #7 Everwind
    93% matchVery Positive82% of 2,069 reviews2026
    Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!

    Why similar: Sandbox 16.7%, Open World 14.4%, Building 13.5%, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 13.4%

  8. #8 cyubeVR
    91% matchVery Positive90% of 1,125 reviews2018
    Dev: Stonebrick Studios
    Windows
    Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 52%

    Immerse yourself in a voxel game exclusively designed for VR. A beautiful infinite procedural world. Explore, gather resources, craft with your hands in 3D, and build anything you can imagine. Featuring great VR controls, near-infinite view distance, Steam Workshop mod support, and much more!

    Why similar: Mining 28.2%, Crafting 16.1%, Building 14.3%, Open World 13%, Sandbox 10.6%

  9. #9 Astral Terra
    92% matchMixed50% of 152 reviews2015
    Dev: Tethys Interactive LLC
    Windows

    Explore, Adventure, Craft, Build, Survive. How will you shape your world? Astral Terra is a Smooth Voxel, Procedurally Generated Open World game with RPG and Survival Elements!

    Why similar: Sandbox 16.9%, Open World 15.8%, Survival 13.9%, Mining 13.9%, Crafting 11.5%

  10. #10 FOUNDRY
    90% 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 19.8%, Sandbox 14.3%, Crafting 14.2%, Open World 12.5%, Building 12.2%

  11. #11 Solace Crafting
    91% 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: Crafting 18.3%, Survival 15.8%, Sandbox 15.5%, Open World 15.2%, Building 13.4%

  12. #12 Center Station Simulator
    89% matchVery Positive88% of 555 reviews2024
    Dev: Nightmare Phoenix
    Windows

    Mine, farm, manufacture components and build a wide range of machines in an infinite basement. Forget primitive tasks thanks to automation! And sell your products to your customers! Build a parking, a gas station...

    Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Sandbox 23.4%, Crafting 18%, Building 15.9%, Exploration 10%

  13. #13 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
    88% matchVery Positive84% of 2,178 reviews2025
    Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: HandyGames
    Windows
    Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!

    Why similar: Automation 19.9%, Building 19.2%, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 11.3%

  14. #14 Evospace
    89% 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 18.2%, Crafting 17.4%, Sandbox 15.8%, Open World 12.9%, Building 12.4%

  15. #15 Rising World
    87% matchVery Positive86% of 5,845 reviews2014
    Dev: JIW-Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%

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

    Why similar: Mining 25.8%, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 12.3%, Survival 10.9%

  16. #16 Omega Crafter
    86% 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: Automation 20.9%, Crafting 14.5%, Open World 13.5%, Survival 12.3%, Building 9.4%

  17. #17 Crafting Block World
    86% matchMixed46% of 52 reviews2019
    Dev: IO Games
    Windows

    Crafting Block World is an adventure with sandbox elements that will help you build your ideal world!

    Why similar: Mining 20.5%, Sandbox 17.9%, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 10.1%

  18. #18 AETHUS
    82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,163 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: Mining 21.6%, Automation 13.7%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 10.2%

  19. #19 Total Miner
    85% matchMostly Positive78% of 760 reviews2017
    Dev: Brandon Moore
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 41%

    Total Miner is an open world voxel sandbox game. It is primarily designed for creative RPG game builders, but also has two action/adventure style game modes where you can just jump in and play.

    Why similar: Mining 17.6%, Sandbox 17.3%, Open World 12%, Building 11.2%, Survival 10.1%

  20. #20 ASTRONEER
    83% 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 17.3%, Survival 15.9%, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 11.6%, Automation 10.9%

  21. #21 FortressCraft Evolved!
    84% 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: Automation 22.1%, Sandbox 15.5%, Crafting 14.7%, Building 12.2%, Mining 10.1%

  22. #22 AutoForge
    82% matchVery Positive88% of 450 reviews2024
    Dev: Siege Games
    Windows

    A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.

    Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Procedural Generation 20.2%, Sandbox 15.9%, Crafting 15.5%, Building 13.2%

  23. #23 Planet Explorers
    84% 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: Sandbox 24.9%, Open World 19.3%, Crafting 14.8%, Survival 13%, Building 10.7%

  24. #24 Space Trash Scavenger
    81% 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: Automation 20.5%, Crafting 14.4%, Sandbox 13.1%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 11.4%

  25. #25 Shamania
    80% 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: Crafting 17.2%, Open World 15.7%, Automation 15.2%, Sandbox 13.7%, Survival 13.5%

  26. #26 Pathless Woods
    79% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,093 reviews2024
    Dev: AniYa Games Studio
    Windows
    Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.

    Why similar: Crafting 19.6%, Sandbox 19.5%, Open World 17.9%, Survival 15.5%, Building 14.9%

  27. #27 TerraTech
    78% matchVery Positive91% of 24,455 reviews2018
    Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 33.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.

    Why similar: Sandbox 21.7%, Building 20.9%, Open World 17.3%, Crafting 15.3%, Survival 10.3%

  28. #28 MineMogul
    75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,443 reviews2025
    Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
    Windows
    Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!

    Why similar: Mining 25.8%, Automation 23.1%, Building 13.2%, Crafting 13.1%, Sandbox 12.4%

  29. #29 Eden Crafters
    76% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
    Dev: Osaris Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    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: Automation 23.4%, Crafting 15.8%, Sandbox 14.9%, Open World 12.7%, Building 11.6%

  30. #30 Windforge
    79% matchMixed68% of 616 reviews2014
    Dev: Snowed In Studios
    Windows
    Median: 36 minMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 43%

    WindForge is a side-scrolling block-building game where you explore hostile skies in an ever-changing Steampunk world. Everything you see can be created or destroyed, creating an RPG without barriers that rewards creative problem solving and improvisation.

    Why similar: Sandbox 23.3%, Steampunk 22.4%, Crafting 18.4%, Open World 12.2%, Building 11.1%

  31. #31 Necesse
    73% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
    Dev: Fair Games ApS
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

    Why similar: Sandbox 17.2%, Open World 15%, Crafting 14.9%, Automation 13.8%, Survival 12.9%

  32. #32 Vagabond
    77% matchMostly Positive78% of 98 reviews2023
    Dev: Pierre Vigier
    Windows · Linux

    Explore procedurally generated living worlds in this 2D sandbox RPG. Meet hundreds of characters in cities, complete quests, craft powerful items, buy and furnish your home or fight monsters in dungeons.

    Why similar: Sandbox 21.1%, Open World 17.7%, Crafting 15.1%, Procedural Generation 14%, Survival 8.5%

  33. #33 Volcanoids
    77% 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: Crafting 15.6%, Steampunk 14.8%, Open World 14%, Survival 13.1%, Sandbox 12.9%

  34. #34 Hotfix
    78% matchMostly Positive76% of 75 reviews2020
    Dev: ol-web
    Windows

    Hotfix is a chromosome enriched solo indie game inspired by Minecraft and Enter the Gungeon. Create your own - near infinite - world full of randomly generated structures filled with guns and loot. Explore, build, and gather resources during the day and avoid robotic "dogs" powering up at night.

    Why similar: Mining 21.1%, Sandbox 15%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 12.5%, Building 11.7%

  35. #35 Muck
    74% matchVery Positive93% of 182,033 reviews2021
    Dev: Dani
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.

    Why similar: Survival 20.3%, Crafting 17.8%, Mining 16%, Building 13.6%, Open World 13.3%

  36. #36 The Planet Crafter
    72% 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: Automation 16.7%, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 12.5%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 12%

  37. #37 Scrapnaut
    76% 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: Building 17.8%, Sandbox 16.3%, Survival 16.2%, Crafting 14.2%, Open World 11.6%

  38. #38 Archean
    74% matchVery Positive88% of 236 reviews2024
    Dev: batcholi
    Windows · Linux

    Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.

    Why similar: Sandbox 19.4%, Crafting 17.7%, Building 16.1%, Open World 15.8%, Immersive Sim 13%

  39. #39 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
    73% 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: Survival 16%, Crafting 15.6%, Open World 14.5%, Sandbox 13.3%, Automation 10.9%

  40. #40 The Last Caretaker
    71% 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 21.2%, Sandbox 16.1%, Crafting 16.1%, Open World 14.4%, Survival 13.5%

  41. #41 Icaria
    73% matchVery Positive91% of 58 reviews2025
    Dev: Blindsight Games LLC
    Windows

    Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.

    Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Sandbox 15.2%, Crafting 14.1%, Building 12.4%, Open World 10.2%

  42. #42 Tile Miner
    75% matchMixed62% of 63 reviews2021
    Dev: nalothchrisPub: MadSwan
    Windows · Mac

    Explore a vast world. Manipulate every tile. Build your kingdom. Conquer the elemental dungeons. The moldable world of Tile Miner is at your fingertips!

    Why similar: Mining 23.1%, Sandbox 14.7%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 12.1%, Building 11.7%

  43. #43 Scrap Mechanic
    72% matchVery Positive92% of 117,049 reviews2016
    Dev: Axolot Games
    Windows
    Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 57.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    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: Sandbox 19.5%, Building 19.3%, Crafting 17.7%, Open World 16%, Survival 15%

  44. #44 BLASTRONAUT
    71% matchMostly Positive75% of 174 reviews2022
    Dev: Perfoon
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    BLASTRONAUT is a mining game in a procedural alien world. Explore, extract and profit.

    Why similar: Mining 29.8%, Sandbox 17.2%, Open World 13.3%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 10.2%

  45. #45 Super Mining Mechs
    69% matchVery Positive88% of 784 reviews2024
    Dev: Delayed Victory
    Windows
    Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Build your own Super Mining Mech and explore the underground in search of new natural resources. Customize your mech with unlockable parts to dig deeper than ever - by yourself or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer! So, what are you waiting for? There’s mining to be done!

    Why similar: Mining 23.6%, Sandbox 17.5%, Steampunk 15.6%, Open World 12.2%, Crafting 11.3%

  46. #46 Star Crafter
    69% 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: Mining 24.4%, Automation 15.8%, Crafting 13.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Survival 8.5%

  47. #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: Sandbox 17.9%, Open World 16.2%, Crafting 14%, Survival 13.8%, Automation 12.2%

  48. #48 Skyformer
    68% 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: Automation 24.8%, Crafting 16.5%, Survival 13.8%, Building 13.8%, Open World 13.6%

  49. #49 Starsand
    70% matchMixed66% of 1,227 reviews2022
    Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.

    Why similar: Crafting 17.6%, Open World 16.8%, Survival 16%, Sandbox 15.6%, Building 12.5%

  50. #50 Core Keeper
    66% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
    Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

    Why similar: Sandbox 16.1%, Crafting 15.5%, Open World 14.4%, Building 13.3%, Survival 13.2%

  51. #51 Soulmask
    67% 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: Automation 23%, Sandbox 16.9%, Crafting 15.4%, Building 15%, Open World 14.3%

  52. #52 Oxygen Train
    68% matchMixed61% of 71 reviews2026
    Dev: OxygenTech Limited
    Windows

    Oxygen Train is an open-world survival train game. Wake up in a world lacking oxygen. Chop trees, mine, gather resources, upgrade your unique train. Survive by planting, fishing, farming, exploring, fighting. Build your train kingdom. Supports 1-8 online co-op.

    Why similar: Sandbox 15.4%, Mining 15%, Automation 13.9%, Building 12.3%, Survival 11.8%

  53. #53 Mechanica
    70% matchMixed64% of 633 reviews2020
    Dev: Deimos Interactive
    Windows

    Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming. Create your own bases, defenses, manufacturing systems and more. Explore the map and expand the scope and complexity of your creations.

    Why similar: Building 25.2%, Automation 23.3%, Survival 22.3%, Sandbox 22%, Indie 3.9%

  54. #54 Out of Ore
    67% matchVery Positive86% of 3,794 reviews2022
    Dev: North Modding Company AB
    Windows
    Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    A casual heavy equipment experience. Mine ore, Move dirt, Build and repair.

    Why similar: Sandbox 22.9%, Mining 22.1%, Building 14.4%, Crafting 13.9%, Open World 9.5%

  55. #55 Nova Lands
    67% 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: Automation 25.5%, Sandbox 17%, Crafting 13.8%, Open World 12.3%, Survival 11.9%

  56. #56 Mechanic Miner
    70% matchMixed58% of 210 reviews2020
    Dev: Hello John
    Windows

    Put your mechanical skills to the test in a physics-based sandbox where ingenuity and creativity are the ultimate key to survival. Construct fantastical machines, gather resources, acquire new technologies to battle dangerous enemies and use your imagination to shape your world.

    Why similar: Sandbox 24%, Crafting 23.9%, Steampunk 23.3%, Building 21.4%, Indie 3.1%

  57. #57 Len's Island
    64% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
    Dev: Flow Studio
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.

    Why similar: Sandbox 17.1%, Crafting 16.7%, Building 16.4%, Survival 15.4%, Open World 14.9%

  58. #58 Lantern Forge
    71% matchMixed54% of 284 reviews2014
    Dev: Hearthfire Studios
    Windows
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%

    Lantern Forge is a sandbox survival game with building, crafting, and RPG elements. Mine and forage for resources to build a home, plant crops, and craft weapons and armor. Then venture out to explore the wilderness, find hidden dungeons and temples, fight unique monsters, and collect the treasures they guard.

    Why similar: Sandbox 34.5%, Crafting 31.7%, Survival 26.3%, Adventure 5.3%, Indie 2.1%

  59. #59 StarRupture
    63% 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: Automation 20.6%, Crafting 14%, Sandbox 13.8%, Open World 13%, Survival 12.5%

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