- #1 Space Engineers
97% matchVery Positive89% of 134,498 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Space Sim 15.8%, Space 9.6%, Building 9%, Co-op 9%, Open World 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: The closest overall alternative, with physics-heavy block construction for ships, stations, rovers, and planetary bases in a survival sandbox.
- #2 Space Engineers 2
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 5,654 reviews2025
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.
Why similar: Space Sim 14.4%, Space 12.2%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 9.7%, Survival 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its next-generation building systems and seamless planetary-to-space sandbox make it a very direct fit for players who mainly enjoy designing functional spacecraft.
- #3 Avorion
96% matchVery Positive90% of 14,588 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 99.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
Why similar: Space Sim 20.4%, Voxel 16.8% ★, Space 11.7%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A deep procedural galaxy sandbox centered on designing modular spacecraft, mining resources, fighting, trading, and expanding from a tiny vessel to a fleet.
- #4 Starship EVO
95% matchVery Positive83% of 1,546 reviews2020
Dev: Moonfire Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
Why similar: Space 17.2%, Building 16.2%, Voxel 14.8% ★, Space Sim 14.2%, Sandbox 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes freely assembling detailed voxel starships and vehicles, then using them to explore procedural planets and space.
- #5 No Man's Sky
94% matchVery Positive85% of 421,258 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.9 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 30.8% ★, Space 13.1%, Open World 11.1%, Space Sim 9.1%, Survival 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a huge seamless universe of planetary survival, base building, freighter ownership, exploration, and cooperative play, though with less engineering depth.
- #6 StarMade
94% matchMixed68% of 2,992 reviews2014
Dev: Schine GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
Why similar: Space 17.5%, Voxel 17% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 10.1%, Open World 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its voxel ship and station construction, procedural galaxy exploration, mining, and faction combat closely echo Empyrion's core sandbox loop.
- #7 Starbase
93% matchMixed55% of 6,768 reviews2021
Dev: Frozenbyte
Windows
Median: 14.2 hrsMean: 91.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
Why similar: Space Sim 17.3%, Voxel 12.4% ★, Open World Survival Craft 11.5% ★, Building 10.4%, Space 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on highly customizable, functional spaceships and stations in a multiplayer space sandbox with detailed resource and engineering systems.
- #8 Interstellar Rift
92% matchMixed68% of 1,667 reviews2020
Dev: Split PolygonPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 35.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
Why similar: Space Sim 21.3%, Building 11.5%, Space 10.2%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: You can construct, crew, and operate customizable starships while exploring, salvaging, fighting, and surviving across a procedural universe.
- #9 Astrometica
89% matchVery Positive82% of 3,211 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: Space Sim 25.8%, Open World Survival Craft 17.7% ★, Space 12.2%, Survival 11.6%, Open World 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its first-person space survival loop of scavenging, crafting, building bases, and exploring dangerous cosmic environments is strongly adjacent to Empyrion's survival side.
- #10 Space Haven
88% matchVery Positive86% of 11,153 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Space Sim 20.2%, Space 13.9%, Building 12.3%, Survival 11.1%, Sandbox 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Although viewed from above, it delivers satisfying ship construction, life support management, scavenging, crew survival, and emergent spacefaring stories.
- #11 Planet Explorers
90% matchMixed62% of 6,818 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 34.6% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Open World 10.5%, Survival 7.5%, Crafting 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It combines alien-world survival, freeform construction, vehicle creation, exploration, and multiplayer in a way that feels like Empyrion focused on one planet.
- #12 PULSAR: Lost Colony
89% matchVery Positive90% of 5,738 reviews2021
Dev: Leafy Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
The co-op open-world space sim where everyone has a role! Pilot the ship. Reroute power. Launch nukes. Explore alien planets. Research new talents. Work together to find the Lost Colony! ...or just deliver some biscuits
Why similar: Space Sim 24.1%, Co-op 13.2%, Space 13%, Open World 11%, PvE 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This cooperative space adventure makes ship operation, away missions, resource management, and unscripted exploration central to its crew-based sandbox feel.
- #13 Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
86% matchVery Positive94% of 12,916 reviews2022
Dev: Walternate Realities
Windows
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 41.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!
Why similar: Space Sim 23.3%, Space 15.8%, Building 15%, Sci-fi 11.5%, Survival 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its accessible but deep ship-design system lets you build functional combat and utility vessels, manage crews, and explore a sandbox galaxy.
- #14 Stationeers
87% matchVery Positive88% of 9,306 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 85.8 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: Space 14.3%, Building 13.8%, Co-op 12.8%, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: For players who love Empyrion's practical base systems, it offers exceptionally detailed construction, automation, atmospherics, power, and survival engineering on alien worlds.
- #15 X4: Foundations
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 30,300 reviews2018
Dev: Egosoft
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 95.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.
Why similar: Space Sim 27.5%, Space 18.4%, Open World 13.1%, Sandbox 12.2%, Sci-fi 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It trades survival crafting for an enormous simulated universe where you pilot ships, build stations, explore sectors, and grow a spacefaring operation.
- #16 Space Trash Scavenger
84% matchVery Positive83% of 528 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 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 27.7% ★, Space 10.6%, Space Sim 10.3%, Crafting 8.5%, Survival 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It is a survival-focused orbital building game where salvaged debris becomes expandable bases and machinery in hazardous space.
- #17 Elite Dangerous
85% matchMostly Positive77% of 107,797 reviews2015
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 149.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
Why similar: Space Sim 34.7%, Space 19.8%, Open World 13.8%, Sci-fi 7.6%, Exploration 6%
Why You'll Like It: Its detailed galaxy, cockpit-focused flight, planetary landings, mining, and multiplayer encounters suit Empyrion players who especially value space exploration.
- #18 Starcom: Unknown Space
83% matchVery Positive92% of 4,500 reviews2024
Dev: Wx3 Labs, LLC
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 17.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Starcom: Unknown Space is an action RPG of space exploration and adventure. Build your own starship while discovering an epic story in a universe of strange mysteries, alien factions and uncharted worlds.
Why similar: Space Sim 29.3%, Space 26.3%, Open World 15.9%, Building 10.3%, Exploration 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It pairs open-ended star-system exploration with modular ship design, resource gathering, combat, and a strong sense of uncovering an unknown galaxy.
- #19 ASTRONEER
84% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 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 28.1% ★, Space 11.7%, Open World 9.4%, Survival 9.1%, Co-op 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A more relaxed cooperative alternative focused on exploring planets, terraforming terrain, building bases, and constructing vehicles across a solar system.
- #20 The Planet Crafter
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 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 28.7% ★, Co-op 10.3%, Space 10.1%, Building 10%, Survival 9%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the satisfying alien-planet survival and base-building side of Empyrion, with the added long-term goal of transforming an entire world.
- #21 Occupy Mars: The Game
81% matchMixed70% of 3,170 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 8.8%, Open World 8.4%, Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A demanding Mars colonization survival game centered on constructing and maintaining habitable bases, vehicles, power networks, and life-support systems.
- #22 Reassembly
82% matchVery Positive94% of 4,100 reviews2015
Dev: Anisoptera GamesPub: Indie Voyage
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.
Why similar: Building 27.2%, Space 26.9%, Sandbox 18.6%, Open World 7.8%, Strategy 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: This modular spaceship sandbox is all about designing vessels piece by piece, gathering resources, battling factions, and iterating on increasingly capable creations.
- #23 Space Pirates And Zombies 2
82% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,842 reviews2017
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Design and then improve the ultimate mothership. Explore a persistent living galaxy populated by 200 unique captains that can do everything you can do. Survive the zombie infection and then fight them back. Make allies and start your own faction. Build your empire. Also includes Sandbox Mode.
Why similar: Space 31.5%, Open World 13.8%, Sandbox 8.4%, Building 8.4%, Strategy 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a freeform galaxy and a tactile ship-construction system where salvaged parts can be attached into increasingly elaborate spacecraft.
- #24 Forever Skies
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 9,059 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.5 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 29% ★, Co-op 13%, Survival 10.2%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers first-person survival and exploration from a customizable airship base, with scavenging, crafting, research, and cooperative play in a hostile sci-fi setting.
- #25 Subnautica
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 380,795 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.8 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 42.6% ★, Survival 14%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Exploration 6%
Why You'll Like It: While underwater rather than in space, it offers the same compelling cycle of surviving an alien environment, building modular bases, crafting vehicles, and exploring unknown biomes.
- #26 FortressCraft Evolved!
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,066 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.5 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 34.6% ★, Voxel 12% ★, Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.2%, Sandbox 9%
Why You'll Like It: This voxel survival-builder combines mining, hostile alien environments, base construction, vehicles, and extensive automation on an extraterrestrial world.
- #27 Rodina
79% matchVery Positive93% of 1,333 reviews2014
Dev: Elliptic Games
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
A single-developer passion project. A seamless full scale solar system. Thrilling action. Be part of an incredible journey as a Universe is built from the ground up!
Why similar: Space 29.2%, Open World 18%, Space Sim 17.2%, Sandbox 12.7%, Exploration 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A solo space sandbox built around piloting and upgrading a persistent ship while freely landing on procedural planets and exploring a large star system.
- #28 SpaceCraft
75% matchMixed64% of 2,773 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 54.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
Why similar: Space Sim 18.2%, Space 12.6%, Open World 9.7%, Sandbox 8.9%, Co-op 8.6%
- #29 Stars End
77% matchMixed61% of 1,432 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.7% ★, Space Sim 10.8%, Co-op 9.9%, Space 8.2%, Survival 6.3%
- #30 Eden Crafters
73% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Crafting 9.1%, Building 9.1%, Open World 8.3%, Space 8.3%
- #31 TerraTech
75% matchVery Positive91% of 25,032 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 32.4 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: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Building 15.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 8.2%
- #32 GRAV
77% matchMixed47% of 6,922 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Survival 12.1%, Open World 10.7%, Sandbox 8.4%, Space 8.1%
- #33 Medieval Engineers
76% matchMixed52% of 7,326 reviews2015
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!
Why similar: Building 19.8%, Sandbox 14%, Open World 12.4%, Physics 10.6%, Crafting 8.8%
- #34 Creativerse
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23% ★, Voxel 18.4% ★, Building 9.2%, Co-op 9%, Crafting 7.8%
- #35 ICARUS
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 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 30.7% ★, Survival 11.2%, Co-op 8.4%, Building 8.2%, Crafting 8.1%
- #36 Volcanoids
73% matchVery Positive83% of 9,358 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 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: Co-op 13.6%, Building 13.2%, Crafting 12%, Survival 11.1%, Sandbox 11%
- #37 Boundless
74% matchMixed69% of 2,779 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.8 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Voxel 18.7% ★, Open World 9.7%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 9%
- #38 Cubic Odyssey
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,754 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 36.7% ★, Co-op 13.6%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 10.7%, Sci-fi 7.5%
- #39 TerraTech Worlds
70% matchMixed63% of 2,297 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 27.5% ★, Co-op 10.5%, Building 10%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 8.6%
- #40 Rising World
71% matchVery Positive86% of 6,019 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.4 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: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Voxel 18.5% ★, Building 9.5%, Co-op 8.6%, Crafting 7.7%
- #41 Starbound
70% matchVery Positive90% of 123,321 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Space 9.3%, Survival 7.5%, Crafting 6.9%
- #42 StarRupture
67% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Co-op 11.6%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 9.1%
- #43 SpaceBourne 2
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,166 reviews2025
Dev: Burak Dabak
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Embark on a journey to greatness. Get ready for adrenaline-fueled battles and a chance to claim your place in the galaxy. Grab the controls of your ship, gear up for the fight, and unleash your ambition to conquer and build a new empire in the vastness of space.
Why similar: Space Sim 39.9%, Space 18.2%, Open World 16.5%, Building 13.2%, Crafting 8.5%
- #44 From the Depths
68% matchVery Positive89% of 12,853 reviews2020
Dev: Brilliant Skies Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 40.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.
Why similar: Voxel 22.5% ★, Building 13.9%, Space 10.6%, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 9.9%
- #45 Astro Colony
66% matchVery Positive81% of 2,730 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Space Sim 18.5%, Space 18%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 9.1%
- #46 Breathedge
68% matchVery Positive81% of 18,514 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 37.2% ★, Space 14.9%, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 9.6%, Crafting 7.5%
- #47 Life is Feudal: Your Own
70% matchMixed66% of 12,071 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 57.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Open World 11.4%, Survival 10.4%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.9%
- #48 EVE Online
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 39,560 reviews2010
Dev: Fenris Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 139.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.
Why similar: Space Sim 23.1%, Space 13.5%, Open World 10.8%, Co-op 10.5%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #49 Satisfactory
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 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: Open World Survival Craft 17.3% ★, Co-op 12.8%, Open World 12.5%, Building 12.4%, Crafting 12%
- #50 Fragmented
71% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Survival 12%, Open World 8.4%, Crafting 6.2%, Building 6.2%
- #51 Scrap Mechanic
62% matchVery Positive92% of 123,030 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 65.6 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: Building 18%, Open World 12.6%, Sandbox 12.5%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 12.1%
- #52 Farworld Pioneers
69% matchMostly Negative37% of 703 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 25.5% ★, Co-op 13.2%, Space 10.2%, Crafting 8.3%, Sandbox 8%
- #53 Subsistence
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.1%, Building 8.2%
- #54 Star Crafter
66% matchMostly Positive70% of 110 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 27.6% ★, Voxel 15.2% ★, Space 10.6%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 6.7%
