- #1 Dyson Sphere Program
97% 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 30.4%, Base Building 24.4%, Building 14%, Open World 11.6%, Sandbox 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredible scale of space-based automation and logistics that perfectly captures the interstellar ambition of Evospace.
- #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 23.1%, Base Building 21.6%, Crafting 15%, Open World 10.9%, Building 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a high-fidelity, first-person 3D factory building experience that emphasizes verticality and complex machine chains.
- #3 Factorio
96% 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 31.3%, Base Building 24.4%, Crafting 14.4%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive automation game that shares the core loop of resource extraction, complex logistics, and scaling production chains.
- #4 FortressCraft Evolved!
95% 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: Automation 21.6%, Crafting 15.7%, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 11.8%, Base Building 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that mirrors the technical depth and block-based building style of Evospace.
- #5 Stationeers
94% 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 26%, Base Building 22.5%, Crafting 19.9%, Building 15.8%, Sandbox 15.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on high-complexity simulation and technical survival, requiring deep knowledge of systems and automation to thrive.
- #6 Techtonica
94% 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 25.2%, Base Building 19%, Building 14.2%, Crafting 14.1%, Sandbox 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory automation game set in a beautiful, destructible underground alien world.
- #7 FOUNDRY
93% 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 15.1%, Voxel 14.3% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person, voxel-based factory building game that emphasizes massive scale and infinite procedural worlds.
- #8 The Planet Crafter
91% 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: Base Building 20.5%, Automation 17.6%, Crafting 16.1%, Building 13.2%, Open World 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the satisfying progression of terraforming a planet through base-building and resource management.
- #9 Astro Colony
92% 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 22.2%, Base Building 21.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features modular base-building and automation in space, focusing on managing resources across a chain of interconnected colonies.
- #10 Autonauts
91% 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 32.1%, Base Building 19.1%, Crafting 14.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Simulation 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines automation with a charming programming-based system that allows you to automate entire colonies of robots.
- #11 Eden Crafters
89% matchVery Positive86% of 2,425 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 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: Automation 22.8%, Base Building 18.5%, Crafting 16.8%, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world survival and crafting with automation mechanics to transform hostile environments.
- #12 Hydroneer
90% 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 22.3%, Base Building 20.2%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 12%, Open World 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features voxel-based terrain manipulation and a unique physics-driven approach to resource extraction and automation.
- #13 Space Engineers
89% matchVery Positive89% of 133,721 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.0 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: Base Building 24.3%, Sandbox 18.3%, Building 18.2%, Open World 15.7%, Simulation 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for voxel-based space construction and engineering, offering immense freedom in ship and base design.
- #14 Mindustry
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 26,625 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 27.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 35.9%, Base Building 34.1%, Sandbox 14.2%, Building 14%, Indie 1.3%
Why You'll Like It: Blends resource management and factory automation with tower defense mechanics in a challenging, strategic environment.
- #15 Occupy Mars: The Game
87% 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 19.8%, Crafting 18.8%, Sandbox 15.1%, Building 13.5%, Open World 13.4%
Why You'll Like It: A highly technical survival and base-building game that emphasizes realistic resource management and engineering.
- #16 ASTRONEER
86% 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: Base Building 19.4%, Open World 16.2%, Crafting 13.9%, Sandbox 13.5%, Automation 12%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on planetary exploration, base-building, and resource processing with a distinct, tactile aesthetic.
- #17 Final Upgrade
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 454 reviews2022
Dev: TaosX
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Base Building 22.6%, Building 16.2%, Sandbox 13.8%, Simulation 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A space-based automation game that allows you to build complex logistics networks using programmable ships.
- #18 Rebots
85% matchMostly Positive76% of 55 reviews2024
Dev: FlatPoniesPub: Astra Logical
Windows
Rebots is a first-person automation game with an expansive universe to explore. Using intelligent(ish) rebots, you can gather resources, terraform planets, and scan all of the things. Traverse the galaxy in the name of space capitalism!
Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 14.9%, Sandbox 12.6%, Procedural Generation 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features robot-assisted automation and resource management in a sandbox space environment.
- #19 shapez
84% 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 25.8%, Base Building 18.9%, Crafting 15.6%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A pure, minimalist automation game that strips away survival elements to focus entirely on the logic and efficiency of factory design.
- #20 Final Factory
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 303 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Why similar: Automation 23.1%, Base Building 18.4%, Crafting 16.2%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 11%
Why You'll Like It: An automation game set in space that focuses on building massive, interconnected factory networks across solar systems.
- #21 Skyformer
83% 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: Automation 22.2%, Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 16.1%, Building 12.2%, Open World 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automation and base-building within an open-world survival crafting framework.
- #22 Space Trash Scavenger
82% 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: Automation 20.6%, Crafting 15.9%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines scavenging and survival with base-building mechanics in a unique space setting.
- #23 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 23.6%, Crafting 21.7%, Base Building 19.8%, Open World 16.5%, First-Person 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: A space-sim that emphasizes survival and exploration in a first-person, open-world environment.
- #24 Orebound
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 913 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Automation 15.8%, Voxel 14.6% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: An early-access title that focuses on automation, crafting, and resource management in a sandbox world.
- #25 XenoHaven
80% 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: Base Building 18.5%, Crafting 14.9%, Sandbox 14.7%, Open World 13.5%, Automation 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes base-building and exploration on alien worlds.
- #26 Elsewhere
79% matchVery Positive96% of 71 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.
Why similar: Automation 17.8%, Crafting 15.1%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 12.4%, Building 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world sandbox game that focuses on exploration and survival mechanics.
- #27 Starship EVO
81% matchVery Positive84% of 1,435 reviews2020
Dev: Moonfire Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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: Building 24.1%, Sandbox 19.8%, Voxel 17.7% ★, Simulation 12.9%, Open World 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A simulation-heavy game that allows for incredibly detailed ship building and mechanical engineering.
- #28 Icaria
79% 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 16.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Voxel 13.7% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 10%
Why You'll Like It: Features base-building and automation with a unique focus on programming logic for complex systems.
- #29 Space Engineers 2
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,590 reviews2025
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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: Sandbox 20.9%, Building 20.2%, Crafting 17.6%, Open World 15.5%, Simulation 9.3%
- #30 The Last Caretaker
74% 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 21.9%, Base Building 18.9%, Crafting 17.7%, Sandbox 13.5%, Open World 11.9%
- #31 Remains
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 318 reviews2021
Dev: SoloQ
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!
Why similar: Base Building 18.5%, Crafting 18%, Building 13.4%, Sandbox 13%, Procedural Generation 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: A space-themed survival and base-building game that emphasizes crafting and resource management.
- #32 Volcanoids
77% 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 20%, Crafting 19.2%, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 14.1%, Open World 11.7%
- #33 Star Crafter
76% 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: Base Building 16.3%, Automation 16%, Crafting 15.5%, Voxel 14% ★, Sandbox 8.4%
- #34 JUNKPUNK
77% matchMixed63% of 678 reviews2021
Dev: SCT
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.
Why similar: Automation 23.4%, Crafting 19.1%, Building 14.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Simulation 8%
- #35 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
75% 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: Voxel 22.7% ★, Crafting 17%, Building 16.2%, Sandbox 14.3%, Open World 13.9%
- #36 Captain of Industry
74% matchVery Positive90% of 10,894 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 84.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 40.1%, Base Building 30.1%, Building 12.4%, Simulation 8.6%, Crafting 4.9%
- #37 StarRupture
72% 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: Automation 22.7%, Base Building 20%, Crafting 16.8%, Sandbox 12.8%, Open World 12.3%
- #38 Planetbase
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,320 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.2 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: Base Building 47.5%, Building 14.8%, Sandbox 9.9%, Simulation 9.2%, Open World 8%
- #39 The Crust
73% 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 29.3%, Base Building 26.3%, Sandbox 16%, Building 14.4%, Simulation 7%
- #40 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
71% 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: Automation 18.6%, Base Building 18.3%, Crafting 15%, Open World 10.9%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #41 Nova Lands
72% 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: Automation 23.2%, Base Building 18.7%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 13.1%, Open World 9.6%
- #42 Space Haven
69% matchVery Positive86% of 10,442 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: Base Building 28%, Sandbox 19%, Building 18.7%, Open World 14.6%, Simulation 9.5%
- #43 Eco
73% matchVery Positive81% of 13,905 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 89.4 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: Base Building 20.9%, Crafting 19.3%, Sandbox 18.3%, Building 18.2%, Open World 13.6%
- #44 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
71% 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: Base Building 22.2%, Crafting 18.8%, Open World 13.7%, Sandbox 12.4%, Automation 12%
- #45 Lightyear Frontier
70% 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: Base Building 23.6%, Crafting 22.2%, Mechs 15.7% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Open World 12.5%
- #46 Avorion
70% matchVery Positive90% of 14,391 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 99.8 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: Voxel 23.9% ★, Sandbox 20.4%, Building 19.8%, Open World 16.4%, Simulation 8.6%
- #47 InfraSpace
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,907 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Why similar: Automation 27.5%, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 16%, Building 15.7%, Crafting 15.5%
- #48 Blossom: The Seed of Life
67% 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: Base Building 19.5%, Automation 17.3%, Crafting 16%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 12.6%
- #49 Planet Miner
71% matchVery Positive80% of 61 reviews2021
Dev: Cherniukh Andrii
Windows
Remove fog, look for and mine minerals, construct buildings, upgrade the rover and reach the portal.
Why similar: Simulation 38.7%, Adventure 22.9%, Exploration 13.8%, Futuristic 12.5%, 3D 6.1%
- #50 Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager
67% matchVery Positive87% of 941 reviews2026
Dev: SpaceOpsPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Explore the Solar System. Mine and drop asteroids. Colonize and terraform. Lead the space race and compete with other corporations on your way to profit. Watch the expansion of human race over the centuries.
Why similar: Sandbox 30.7%, Building 16.2%, Simulation 15.8%, Realistic 10.4%, Futuristic 8.5%
- #51 Prospector
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 152 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Automation 19.5%, Base Building 17.9%, Crafting 15.4%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 12.6%
- #52 Factory Town
68% matchVery Positive91% of 4,433 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 26.2%, Base Building 21.6%, Crafting 18%, Sandbox 15%, Building 9.7%
- #53 Outpath
66% 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: Base Building 18.4%, Automation 18.1%, Crafting 17%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 10.5%
- #54 Starbase
69% matchMixed56% of 6,719 reviews2021
Dev: Frozenbyte
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 91.3 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: Building 19.2%, Voxel 18.6% ★, Open World 16.9%, Sandbox 16.1%, Crafting 14.8%
- #55 Outerverse
69% matchMixed50% of 125 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: Voxel 28.8% ★, Automation 18.4%, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 14%, Open World 9.4%
- #56 Dawn Apart
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 239 reviews2025
Dev: Industrial Technology and WitchcraftPub: Astra Logical
Windows
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Base Building 23.7%, Voxel 19.6% ★, Crafting 18.6%, Sandbox 5.3%
- #57 TerraTech Worlds
67% 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: Base Building 20.2%, Crafting 17.3%, Automation 14.7%, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 13.2%
- #58 The Universim
65% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,560 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
Why similar: Sandbox 28.6%, Building 27.7%, Procedural Generation 18.3%, Open World 11.2%, Simulation 10.3%