Games Like Exoplanet: First Contact

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 44.6%, Crafting 17.4%, Exploration 12.8%, RPG 11.2%, Action RPG 8%

Explore the mysterious, beautiful, yet dark world of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in this post-apocalyptic action-RPG. Make your mark on this world, through your character development, choices and playstyle. But remember – everything has a price and consequences.

Why similar: Gun Customization 19.4% ★, Open World 16%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Action RPG 12.1%

ELEX is a handcrafted action role-playing experience from the award-winning creators of the Gothic series, set in a brand new post-apocalyptic Science Fantasy universe that puts players into a huge seamless game world full of original characters, mutated creatures, deep moral choices and powerful action.

Why similar: Open World 36.5%, Post-apocalyptic 25%, RPG 14.9%, Choices Matter 7.5%, Third Person 6.7%

Wild West and Wizards is an open world exploration RPG set in a re-imagined new frontier. Pick a class and level up unlocking abilities and exploring a world filled with quests, loot, outlaws, bosses, spells, caves, towns, and other mysterious places.

Why similar: Western 47.6% ★, Open World 16.5%, Action RPG 10.2%, RPG 8.6%, Exploration 6.3%

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 57.4%, Crafting 22.7%, RPG 9.7%, Third Person 9.3%, Singleplayer 1%

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 46.4%, Crafting 20.1%, RPG 11.9%, Third Person 9.7%, Exploration 9.5%

Z.O.N.A: Origin is an immersive adventure in a harsh post-apocalyptic world. Dive into a captivating story, explore a stunning open world, avoid dangerous anomalies, and hunt for powerful artifacts. Every choice you make can be decisive in this unpredictable world.

Why similar: Gun Customization 25.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, Open World 18.3%, Action RPG 13.5%, Exploration 8.1%

Experience the frontier as a chief of a Native American tribe and resist the onset of the settlers. Explore the vast world full of hostile humans and animals while defining your narrative through the decisions you make.

Why similar: Western 53.2% ★, Open World 23.2%, Crafting 9.4%, RPG 7.3%, Third Person 5.7%

Choose your own destiny as you explore an open-world procedurally generated galaxy where anything is possible. Become a miner, a trader, a bounty hunter, a pirate, or perhaps a jack of all trades. Start off small and build your way to the top but remember with every action, comes consequences.

Why similar: Mining 24.8% ★, Open World 24.5%, Action RPG 17.3%, Exploration 11.8%, RPG 10.1%

EXOME is a co-op sci-fi survival shooter that blends wave-based survival with open-world exploration. Battle hordes of aliens, upgrade your arsenal, and uncover the hidden truths of the deep forest. Will you face it alone or bring your friends along?

Why similar: Nonlinear 25.3%, Open World 19.8%, PvE 14.8%, Lore-Rich 13.3%, Exploration 11.4%

INSOMNIA is a dieselpunk sci-fi RPG about the slowly degrading remnants of human society attempting to survive on an abandoned space metropolis. Develop your character, explore lovingly handcrafted locations, interact with peculiar NPCs and factions and try to stay alive in this brutal world.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27%, Action RPG 16.2%, Lore-Rich 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.8%, RPG 9.5%

“Live your Wild West fantasy in Frontier Legends, an open-world frontier adventure where survival, crafting and exploration shape your story. Stake your claim, build your place in the West and uncover what lies beyond the rails.”

Why similar: Western 47.1% ★, Action RPG 19.8%, Exploration 8.8%, Third Person 8.4%, Crafting 8.3%

An open-world action adventure game set in a simulated world in which humans never reached the top of the food chain.

Why similar: Open World 31.6%, Action RPG 15.8%, Third Person 13.5%, RPG 10.7%, Exploration 7.5%

Death Trash features a post-apocalyptic world where cosmic horrors long for humanity but meet punks with shotguns. It combines old-school role-playing, modern action gameplay and player freedom. Create your own character and explore a handcrafted world.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 24.2%, Action RPG 16.2%, Open World 15.4%, Choices Matter 9.9%, PvE 9%

Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.

Why similar: Open World 46.5%, Crafting 23.5%, Exploration 20.8%, Atmospheric 6.1%, Singleplayer 3.1%

Post-apocalyptic, Sandbox, Crafting-survival Indie game. Explore at your own pace or team up with your friends in multiplayer. Early access game!

Why similar: Gun Customization 27.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 22.4%, Open World 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Exploration 8.4%

Next Day is a multi-player SURVIVAL game with elements of RPG, in an imaginary country in Eastern Europe. Carry out an array of tasks, learn skills, and develop your character. Have shootouts with opponents and earn a reputation.

Why similar: Open World 38%, Post-apocalyptic 34.2%, Crafting 11.3%, PvE 6.3%, RPG 5.4%

Badiya is a Sandbox Survival RPG set in the WWI era desert lands. Badiya challenges you to brave the sands, take part in wars, ply the spice routes, or hunt for treasure as you strive to fulfill your ambitions.

Why similar: Open World 35.6%, Crafting 20.1%, Exploration 16%, Third Person 13.1%, RPG 12.6%

Outcast – Second Contact is the complete remake of the cult title which sparked the open world, action-adventure genre. Take off on an exploration of Adelpha, an alien world as beautiful as it is dangerous, where your heroic journey places the fate of two worlds in your hands.

Why similar: Open World 60.7%, Third Person 20.8%, Story Rich 7.7%, Exploration 7%, Singleplayer 3.8%

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: Open World 39.3%, Crafting 25.8%, Exploration 20.2%, Atmospheric 11%, Singleplayer 3.7%

Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.

Why similar: Western 64.3% ★, Open World 22%, Crafting 4.4%, RPG 4.2%, Choices Matter 3%

Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.

Why similar: Open World 25.7%, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Action RPG 15.1%, Crafting 13.7%, RPG 8.4%

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 43%, Crafting 25.4%, Exploration 19.5%, Story Rich 8.5%, Singleplayer 3.6%

Science-driven exploration adventure on prehistoric Earth with a relaxing vibe. Farming, crafting, puzzle-solving, and exploration on Prehistoric Earth, where you arrive as an alien botanist who is very good at plant research, but... can't breathe oxygen.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.6%, Open World 32.6%, Crafting 16.6%, Exploration 15.2%

Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.

Why similar: Open World 32.6%, Crafting 17.9%, Exploration 14%, PvE 13.9%, Third Person 9.8%

Hostile Planet: Survival is a harsh adventure on an uncharted planet that full of danger and trials.

Why similar: Open World 59.9%, Crafting 37.4%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Within the Cosmos is a sci-fi RPG. After awakening in a secluded star system, you soon discover a fractured human society grappling with an emerging android threat. Explore planets, uncover mysteries, and navigate differing philosophies. Your choices will shape how the story unfolds.

Why similar: Action RPG 33.2%, Choices Matter 19%, Exploration 16.8%, RPG 14.9%, Story Rich 7.4%

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: Open World 29.3%, Action RPG 25.5%, Exploration 14.6%, Lore-Rich 10.3%, RPG 8.5%

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 37.2%, Crafting 23.7%, Exploration 14.8%, Third Person 13.5%, Atmospheric 7.5%

Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.

Why similar: Open World 44.7%, Crafting 24.5%, Exploration 20.2%, Story Rich 6.6%, Singleplayer 4.1%

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: Mining 37.4% ★, Open World 36.9%, Crafting 22%, Singleplayer 3.7%

Conquer the Wild West. Explore the open world of a fictitious American Midwest and survive the harsh environment. Convince other settlers to join you and manage your ever-growing settlements. Build a home, take care of your farm and become a legend in Wild West Legacy.

Why similar: Western 50% ★, Open World 18.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, RPG 6.8%

Landinar: Into the Void is a top-down space-adventure-RPG. You are recruited as a rookie bounty hunter in the oppressive Landinar Empire. On your journey through the quadrant you will meet diverse characters, build your own spaceship and choose your battles.

Why similar: Open World 44.5%, RPG 29.4%, Action RPG 13.9%, Third Person 6.4%, Story Rich 4.1%

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 53.2%, Crafting 29.5%, Exploration 15.5%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Explore a beautiful open world where you deliver mail, find artifacts, help people out, and fend off folks you’ve wronged.

Why similar: Open World 27.8%, Nonlinear 21.3%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Exploration 13.7%, Crafting 13.6%

Enter the Chornobyl Anomalous Zone — a vast open world where anomalies, mutants, and rivals stand in your way. Explore, scavenge, and try to survive in this brutal and dangerous land. Evolving with every update, now overhauled and crowned with UPDATE 2.0.

Why similar: Open World 26.3%, Post-apocalyptic 25.3%, Nonlinear 12.5%, Exploration 7.1%, Lore-Rich 6.9%

Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.6%, Open World 23%, PvE 13.5%, Crafting 13%, Exploration 11%

Suddenly thrown into an unknown galaxy, you must explore, fight or befriend aliens and transform your ship from a small survey vessel into a powerful battlecruiser to unravel the mystery of the forces that brought you here and find your way home.

Why similar: Open World 34.1%, Exploration 22%, Action RPG 18.8%, RPG 18.7%, Story Rich 5.3%

PIONER drops players into a vast, grim world, where survival hinges on exploration, crafting, and smart resource management. As an MMO FPS, it offers both PvE missions and intense PvP zones, with unique crafting mechanics, hundreds of weapons and a deep story to explore.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 35.4%, Open World 30.2%, Crafting 16.1%, RPG 10.3%, Atmospheric 8%

Western Rye is an open world survival crafting adventure game set in the old west American Frontier. Create your dream outlaw! Survive the the wild west, farm, build your ranch, endure the weather, fight and forge your legend with friends or alone. In Western Rye, the wild west just got wilder!

Why similar: Western 45.3% ★, Open World 15%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Crafting 9.3%, PvE 8.4%

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 48.6%, Crafting 26.3%, Exploration 21%, Singleplayer 4.1%

An Intense Cyberpunk Rpg On the Red Planet! Mars War Logs takes you to Mars, nearly a century after the cataclysm that threw the planet and its colonists into chaos. Water has become the most precious resource on the arid red planet, with a few companies fighting a perpetual war for its control.

Why similar: RPG 26.2%, Action RPG 21.5%, Third Person 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Crafting 6.4%

GearStorm - Armored Survival is a story-driven, open-world sci-fi survival adventure. Discover what led to the Phage, a deadly virus apocalypse and our escape to a alien world. Explore a vast alien planet, build your base, create your colony, acquire vehicles, weapons, and supplies to defend it.

Why similar: Open World 43.3%, RPG 30.8%, Post-apocalyptic 25.9%

Survive in a realistic Tasmanian wilderness recreated with real‑world data. The land is beautiful, harsh, and indifferent to your survival.

Why similar: Open World 28.2%, Post-apocalyptic 25.2%, PvE 16.3%, Crafting 11.7%, Atmospheric 8.3%

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: RPG 34.2%, Open World 31.5%, Exploration 17%, Crafting 13.8%, Singleplayer 3.6%

Star Merc is an open world rpg where player choices heavily affect outcomes and drastically change the storyline. The game is about exploring different planets, learning about the inhabitants and dealing with the different factions that like to think they control the universe.

Why similar: RPG 44.9%, Open World 38.3%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Singleplayer 4.7%

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 31.3%, Mining 27.5% ★, Crafting 18.5%, Exploration 14%, Third Person 8.7%

The Signal From Tölva is an open-world first-person shooter set on a distant, haunted, future world. Unlock savage weapons and recruit robots to fight alongside you as rival factions struggle to discover the source of the mysterious signal. What you discover will decide the fate of a world.

Why similar: Open World 57.7%, Exploration 18.4%, Atmospheric 9.2%, Lore-Rich 7.4%, Singleplayer 3.8%

Action RPG with survival elements. Manage resources and bond with NPCs to unlock crafting and gain allies who may become playable. Use them to solve puzzles and battle together. Survive the frozen wilds and uncover the truth behind your exile.

Why similar: Action RPG 32.3%, Open World 24.9%, Crafting 16.3%, Third Person 12.1%, RPG 8.3%

Afallon is a single-player RPG with the feel of an MMO. Choose your class and race to forge a unique character, explore a large open world with diverse zones and biomes, and experience a living world that changes based on your actions.

Why similar: Action RPG 30.5%, Open World 21.8%, Exploration 13.2%, Third Person 12.6%, RPG 12.6%

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

Why similar: Mining 26.3% ★, Open World 25.6%, RPG 16.5%, Crafting 15.2%, Exploration 12.2%