- #1 Space Engineers
97% matchVery Positive89% of 134,313 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.4 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 9.5%, Co-op 9.1%, Building 9%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It shares Empyrion's core appeal of building ships, stations, and planetary bases block by block inside a large physics-driven space survival sandbox.
- #2 Space Engineers 2
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 5,449 reviews2025
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.1 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 14.3%, Space 12.1%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 9.7%, Survival 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Like Empyrion, it focuses on player-made spacecraft and structures in a huge sci-fi sandbox, with even more emphasis on creative engineering freedom.
- #3 Starbase
96% matchMixed56% of 6,753 reviews2021
Dev: Frozenbyte
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 91.6 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 12.5% ★, Open World Survival Craft 11.4% ★, Building 10.4%, Space 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its first-person multiplayer setting, voxel ship construction, station building, and seamless space operations make it one of the closest modern matches.
- #4 Avorion
95% matchVery Positive90% of 14,549 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 99.5 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 16.9% ★, Space 11.7%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the ship-design-and-expand fantasy brilliantly, letting you build fleets and stations while exploring and surviving in a procedurally generated galaxy.
- #5 No Man's Sky
94% matchVery Positive85% of 414,381 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.7 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%, Space Sim 9.2%, Survival 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same loop of exploring planets, gathering resources, building bases, and playing co-op in a massive spacefaring sandbox.
- #6 Interstellar Rift
94% matchMixed68% of 1,666 reviews2020
Dev: Split PolygonPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.1 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 21.2%, Building 11.5%, Space 10.1%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its mix of customizable starships, station building, first-person interiors, and co-op space exploration closely overlaps with Empyrion's sandbox feel.
- #7 StarMade
92% matchMixed68% of 2,991 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 17.4%, Voxel 17.1% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 10.1%, Open World 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Despite its age, it remains a strong fit because it revolves around building massive ships and stations in an open-ended multiplayer space sandbox.
- #8 Starship EVO
91% matchVery Positive84% of 1,522 reviews2020
Dev: Moonfire Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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 17.1%, Building 16.2%, Voxel 14.9% ★, Space Sim 14.2%, Sandbox 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: It scratches the same itch of designing drivable spacecraft and bases in a sandbox where engineering your creations is the main attraction.
- #9 Stationeers
91% matchVery Positive88% of 9,229 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 85.3 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 14.2%, Building 13.8%, Co-op 12.9%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: If you like Empyrion's survival-building side, this offers similarly deep sci-fi base construction and life-support management with a stronger simulation focus.
- #10 PULSAR: Lost Colony
90% matchVery Positive90% of 5,732 reviews2021
Dev: Leafy Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 16.7 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%, Co-op 13.3%, Space 13%, Open World 11%, PvE 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It leans more toward crewed co-op ship gameplay than survival, but it nails the fantasy of living and adventuring aboard a customizable spaceship with friends.
- #11 X4: Foundations
89% matchMostly Positive80% of 30,013 reviews2018
Dev: Egosoft
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 95.3 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 27.4%, Space 18.6%, Open World 12.9%, Sandbox 12.2%, Sci-fi 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It is less survival-focused, but its open-ended space sandbox, station building, ship ownership, and galactic scale make it a great fit for the strategic side of Empyrion.
- #12 ASTRONEER
89% matchVery Positive92% of 139,015 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.6 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% ★, Space 11.7%, Open World 9.3%, Survival 9.1%, Co-op 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a lighter, friendlier take on planetary survival and base building with strong exploration and co-op progression across multiple worlds.
- #13 Occupy Mars: The Game
88% matchMixed70% of 3,132 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.1 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: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Building 9.2%, Co-op 9.2%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Although focused on one planet, it strongly matches Empyrion's survival-crafting and sci-fi base-building systems in a realistic off-world setting.
- #14 The Planet Crafter
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 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 28.6% ★, Co-op 10.4%, Space 10%, Building 10%, Survival 9%
Why You'll Like It: It trades combat and shipbuilding for satisfying planetary survival and base expansion, making it a good match if your favorite part of Empyrion is building up a world.
- #15 Breathedge
86% matchVery Positive81% of 17,661 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 37.1% ★, Space 14.8%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 9.6%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This is a more narrative-driven space survival game, but its crafting, scavenging, and life-support management echo Empyrion's moment-to-moment survival gameplay.
- #16 Space Haven
84% matchVery Positive86% of 11,081 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.9 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 20.1%, Space 13.9%, Building 12.4%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: While top-down and colony-focused, it still delivers the fantasy of building and sustaining a spacefaring home while exploring a dangerous galaxy.
- #17 Stars End
86% matchMixed61% of 1,428 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 19.6% ★, Space Sim 10.8%, Co-op 10%, Space 8.2%, Survival 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers multiplayer sci-fi survival on alien planets with crafting, building, and territorial competition that overlaps well with Empyrion's frontier feel.
- #18 Astro Colony
82% matchVery Positive81% of 2,699 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.2 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: Space Sim 18.6%, Space 18.1%, Building 13.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It combines space exploration, automation, and modular base building in a way that feels like Empyrion's crafting sandbox pushed toward logistics and industry.
- #19 Elite Dangerous
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 107,282 reviews2015
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 18.2 hrsMean: 148.6 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 13.7%, Sci-fi 7.6%, Exploration 6%
Why You'll Like It: It lacks crafting and base building, but if the best part of Empyrion for you is flying through an open galaxy and making your own path, it is a strong exploration-heavy alternative.
- #20 TerraTech
83% matchVery Positive91% of 24,920 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 32.5 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 29.4% ★, Building 15.3%, Sandbox 11%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its modular vehicle construction and open-world resource loop mirror Empyrion's creative engineering side, even though the tone is lighter and more arcade-like.
- #21 Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
81% matchVery Positive94% of 12,820 reviews2022
Dev: Walternate Realities
Windows
Median: 19.2 hrsMean: 41.1 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 23.4%, Space 15.7%, Building 15%, Sci-fi 11.5%, Survival 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on designing functional spaceships from the ground up, which makes it a great pick if building effective vessels is your favorite part of Empyrion.
- #22 Scrap Mechanic
78% matchVery Positive92% of 122,134 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 64.5 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%, Sandbox 12.5%, Open World 12.4%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is not space-themed, but its creative construction, vehicle building, and survival sandbox systems appeal to the same engineering-minded players.
- #23 Starbound
81% matchVery Positive90% of 123,281 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.4 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 36.4% ★, Sandbox 10.4%, Space 9.2%, Survival 7.5%, Crafting 7%
Why You'll Like It: Its 2D format changes the feel, but it still combines planetary exploration, crafting, base building, and hopping between worlds in a broad sci-fi sandbox.
- #24 Volcanoids
80% matchVery Positive83% of 9,332 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 13.7%, Building 13.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 11%
Why You'll Like It: Its mobile-base survival loop and emphasis on crafting and upgrading a traveling machine echo Empyrion's build-and-survive structure in a different setting.
- #25 GRAV
82% matchMixed47% of 6,921 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 38.2% ★, Survival 12.1%, Open World 10.7%, Sandbox 8.5%, Space 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This older sci-fi survival sandbox still fits for its alien-world exploration, co-op play, crafting, and base building, even if it is much rougher than Empyrion.
- #26 Space Trash Scavenger
78% matchVery Positive84% of 525 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 27.6% ★, Space 10.6%, Space Sim 10.4%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers scrappy first-person survival, construction, and scavenging in orbit, making it a neat lower-budget cousin to Empyrion's space survival loop.
- #27 Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition
79% matchMixed69% of 2,515 reviews2020
Dev: Radiation BluePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Hyperjump into the dark recesses of space with Genesis Alpha One - a roguelike FPS where you must build, maintain and navigate your ship through a galaxy filled with hostile alien and human threats. Explore, create and survive the militarized space race in order to secure humanity’s future.
Why similar: Space Sim 25.8%, Building 14.6%, Space 14.4%, Open World 12.7%, Survival 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: This blends ship construction, crew management, resource gathering, and first-person combat into a compact sci-fi survival package that feels thematically close.
- #28 SpaceCraft
77% matchMixed65% of 2,687 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 47.3 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 9.6%, Sandbox 8.9%, Co-op 8.6%
- #29 Rodina
79% matchVery Positive93% of 1,333 reviews2014
Dev: Elliptic Games
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.4 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 17.9%, Space Sim 17.2%, Sandbox 12.8%, Exploration 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the fantasy of piloting a personal starship through a seamless open universe with planets to land on and a strong sense of independent space adventure.
- #30 Astrometica
76% matchVery Positive83% of 3,181 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 17.6% ★, Space 12.2%, Survival 11.6%, Open World 11.4%
- #31 Planet Explorers
77% 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 34.4% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Open World 10.4%, Survival 7.5%, Crafting 7.1%
- #32 Eden Crafters
72% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 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 29.4% ★, Crafting 9.2%, Building 9.1%, Open World 8.3%, Space 8.3%
- #33 Cubic Odyssey
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,720 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 36.5% ★, Co-op 13.7%, Building 13%, Sandbox 10.7%, Sci-fi 7.5%
- #34 Medieval Engineers
76% matchMixed52% of 7,324 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 12.2%, Physics 10.6%, Crafting 8.8%
- #35 StarRupture
71% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 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 29.6% ★, Co-op 11.7%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 9.1%
- #36 Boundless
74% matchMixed70% of 2,774 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.9 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 31.2% ★, Voxel 18.8% ★, Sandbox 9.7%, Open World 9.7%, Building 9.1%
- #37 Life is Feudal: Your Own
74% matchMixed66% of 12,061 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 36.1% ★, Open World 11.3%, Survival 10.4%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 10%
- #38 ICARUS
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 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 30.5% ★, Survival 11.1%, Co-op 8.4%, Building 8.2%, Crafting 8.2%
- #39 FortressCraft Evolved!
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,063 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 34.4% ★, Voxel 12.1% ★, Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.2%, Sandbox 9%
- #40 Creativerse
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.9% ★, Voxel 18.5% ★, Building 9.3%, Co-op 9%, Crafting 7.9%
- #41 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
69% matchVery Positive91% of 7,602 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 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 31% ★, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Building 8.1%, Co-op 7.3%
- #42 SpaceBourne 2
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,149 reviews2025
Dev: Burak Dabak
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 40%, Space 18.1%, Open World 16.4%, Building 13.3%, Crafting 8.5%
- #43 Rising World
71% matchVery Positive86% of 5,974 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.2 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 26.1% ★, Voxel 18.6% ★, Building 9.5%, Co-op 8.6%, Crafting 7.7%
- #44 TerraTech Worlds
70% matchMixed63% of 2,287 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 22.0 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 27.3% ★, Co-op 10.5%, Building 10%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 8.5%
- #45 EVE Online
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 39,351 reviews2010
Dev: Fenris Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 138.6 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 10.7%, Co-op 10.6%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #46 Planetbase
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,422 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Why similar: Space 25.5%, Survival 17.8%, Building 10.8%, Space Sim 9.8%, Strategy 7.4%
- #47 Farworld Pioneers
70% matchMostly Negative38% of 701 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 25.3% ★, Co-op 13.3%, Space 10.2%, Crafting 8.4%, Sandbox 8%
- #48 From the Depths
67% matchVery Positive89% of 12,793 reviews2020
Dev: Brilliant Skies Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 40.7 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 13.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Space 10.6%, Crafting 9.9%
- #49 Eco
68% matchVery Positive81% of 14,049 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.7 hrsMean: 90.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Open World 12.7%, Survival 11.1%, Sandbox 11%
- #50 Star Crafter
66% matchMixed70% of 106 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 27.5% ★, Voxel 15.3% ★, Space 10.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 6.7%
- #51 Drift: Space Survival
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Space 12.4%, Survival 10.1%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.6%
- #52 CryoFall
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,462 reviews2021
Dev: AtomicTorch StudioPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 9%
- #53 Fragmented
69% 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 39.9% ★, Survival 12%, Open World 8.3%, Crafting 6.3%, Building 6.2%
- #54 Space Pirates And Zombies 2
67% 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 13.7%, Sandbox 8.5%, Building 8.4%, Strategy 8.2%
- #55 EVERSPACE™ 2
64% matchVery Positive86% of 12,991 reviews2023
Dev: ROCKFISH Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 29.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
EVERSPACE 2 is a fast-paced single-player spaceship shooter with exploration in space and on planets, tons of loot, RPG elements, mining, and crafting. Experience an exciting sci-fi story set in a vivid, handcrafted open world full of secrets, puzzles, and perils.
Why similar: Space 30.2%, Open World 21.6%, PvE 14.2%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Exploration 11.2%
