Games Like Forager

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: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 9.1%, Farming Sim 9%, Base Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It feels like a direct evolution of Forager's gather-craft-expand formula, adding more automation while keeping the same bright, addictive progression loop.

An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Farming Sim 14.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Base Building 8.5%, Sandbox 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is one of the closest matches on Steam, blending active resource gathering, base building, and incremental upgrades into the same "just one more unlock" feel.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 8%, Sandbox 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its top-down exploration, mining, crafting, and cozy base progression deliver a similarly absorbing sandbox loop with more combat and co-op options.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.8% ★, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 6.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down pixel sandbox mixes exploration, crafting, and base development in a way that feels very natural for someone who loved Forager's progression.

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.8% ★, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Like Forager, it constantly rewards exploration and resource collection with new crafting possibilities, stronger tools, and a steadily growing base.

Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 7.4%, Sandbox 7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Forager's fast-paced crafting progression, constant material gathering, light humor, and approachable survival systems without too much punishment.

A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Crafting 16.1%, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 7.6%, Sandbox 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This one offers a similar island-based cycle of gathering, crafting, exploration, and base building, just with a bit more traditional survival flavor.

As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Survival 13.7%, Base Building 10.4%, Sandbox 7.7%, Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Starting from simple survival and snowballing into deep crafting and tech progression, it nails the same satisfying sense of building something huge from almost nothing.

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 49.2% ★, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 9.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its 2D sandbox exploration and crafting progression scratch the same itch of constantly hunting for materials to unlock better gear and build bigger bases.

Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.9% ★, Farming Sim 14%, Crafting 10.5%, Agriculture 9.6% ★, Sandbox 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a similarly satisfying mix of gathering, crafting, land development, and cozy progression, just in a more town-building-focused format.

Stranded on a barren moon with nothing but your tools, fuelless ship, and celestial powers of creation, you are destined to recreate what was once lost and be the hero of your own Little Universe! Don't forget to call in up to three of your friends to join your journey in the Splitscreen Co-op Mode!

Why similar: Crafting 32.8%, Survival 27%, Sandbox 19%, Open World 9.4%, Exploration 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its entire structure revolves around chopping, mining, and spending resources to open new land, making it a great fit for Forager's expansion-heavy appeal.

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: Farming Sim 20.4%, Crafting 19.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Resource Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Forager was optimizing resource collection and automating chores, this turns that instinct into the core game loop.

DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 61.7% ★, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 8.3%, Building 6.9%, RPG 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the joy of gathering materials, crafting tools, and transforming empty spaces into thriving creations while staying playful and approachable.

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 43.2% ★, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 7.8%, Sandbox 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its addictive loop of harvesting resources, unlocking tech, and expanding your capabilities makes it a strong 3D alternative to Forager's sandbox progression.

The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.

Why similar: Crafting 19.8%, Farming Sim 19%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%, Agriculture 12.5% ★, Sandbox 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This has the same relaxed, compact, and rewarding feel of turning gathered resources into visible world and town improvements.

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

Why similar: Crafting 22.1%, Building 19.6%, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 14.1%, Resource Management 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: It matches Forager's upbeat exploration and resource loop while leaning harder into automation and logistics once your production grows.

Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.

Why similar: Crafting 35.2%, Pixel Graphics 19.4%, Sandbox 13.5%, Agriculture 8.4% ★, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a great pick if you liked Forager's grindy crafting chains and constant checklists, but want a darker and more management-heavy twist.

You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?

Why similar: Farming Sim 30.6%, Crafting 14%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, Agriculture 10.1% ★, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: While more social and farm-focused, it shares Forager's highly rewarding routine of gathering materials, upgrading tools, and steadily expanding what you can do each day.

Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.

Why similar: Sandbox 27.1%, Open World 25.8%, Exploration 17%, Adventure 11.6%, Singleplayer 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its colorful exploration, resource collection, and base expansion create a similarly cheerful and compulsive progression loop despite the first-person view.

Build your farm and relationships with townsfolk, or forge ahead on a quest of magic, monsters, and dragons. Level up through a skill tree in 8 person multiplayer, or adventure solo!

Why similar: Farming Sim 36.9%, Crafting 18%, Pixel Graphics 13.8%, Agriculture 10.9% ★, Multiplayer 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its pixel-art world, crafting, farming, and exploration make it a good match if you want Forager's charm with more RPG and life-sim depth.

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.1% ★, Survival 23.1%, Crafting 14.2%, Sandbox 7%, Multiplayer 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the survival-crafting-exploration core, though it's a harsher and more punishing take on the resource-driven sandbox loop.

Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!

Why similar: Farming Sim 28.1%, Crafting 22.3%, Agriculture 8.9% ★, Open World 7.6%, Sandbox 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes crafting commissions and workshop progression over survival, but it scratches the same itch of constantly turning gathered resources into upgrades.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.3% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 12.7%, Sandbox 7.6%, Base Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: The blend of gathering, farming, crafting, and building up a home base gives it a familiar "collect more so you can do more" appeal.

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 40.3% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 9.5%, Sandbox 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Although slower and in first person, it delivers the same satisfying feeling of harvesting resources and using them to transform both your base and the world itself.

Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Crafting 19.4%, Survival 15.1%, Open World 7.1%, Sandbox 7%

Why You'll Like It: It blends open-world gathering, crafting, farming, and even automation into a busy progression sandbox that often feels like a bigger, messier Forager.

You have inherited your grandparents farm as they set off to travel the world. Work with Frank at the local construction shop to finish off the final touches on your new home. Aid Frank and Mayor Wilson in building up the town so it may reach it's full potential.

Why similar: Farming Sim 23.5%, Crafting 20.4%, Agriculture 13.4% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes exploration, gathering, farming, crafting, and town upgrades in a cozy way that captures Forager's gentle but addictive momentum.

Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.2% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This 2D sandbox offers strong gathering, crafting, exploration, and building systems that line up well with Forager's simpler side-scrolling cousins.

Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.7% ★, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 8%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Crafting 29.7%, Survival 17.9%, Sandbox 16.6%, Building 13.3%, Open World 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Managing resource collection and base growth in a 2D sandbox setting makes it a good fit for players who liked Forager's build-up from humble beginnings.

Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, Farming Sim 16.7%, Crafting 14.5%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 7.6%

Humanity Trashed the Earth and left for Mars. Only few remained. EXPLORE the world. Clean the environment, CRAFT with recycled resources. Domesticate animals. Rebuild your village. Restore environment and run your own post-apo FARM as there is No Place Like Home!

Why similar: Farming Sim 29.1%, Crafting 23%, Base Building 14.2%, Agriculture 11.8% ★, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its loop of collecting resources, cleaning up the world, farming, and upgrading your homestead gives a similar steady sense of hands-on progression.

A beautiful Life Sim Sandbox RPG with Cross-Platform Online COOP set on a tropical Archipelago. Build your farm, grow crops and animals, craft various items, cook dishes, gather resources, build shops and museum to attract visitors, and turn a desolate Island into a prosperous tourist destination!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42% ★, Farming Sim 18.9%, Agriculture 9.6% ★, Sandbox 8.9%, Open World 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This cozy island life-sim combines farming, crafting, gathering, and expansion in a way that should appeal to players who enjoyed Forager's relaxed growth loop.

The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37% ★, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%

The management RPG where your heroes keep fighting even when you're gone! Spend their loot on upgrades, unlock classes from Elemental Wizard to Cannon Pirate, and level up 19 unique skills like Farming, Sailing, and even Construction!

Why similar: Crafting 29.5%, Pixel Graphics 18.4%, Sandbox 14.8%, Resource Management 14.7%, Multiplayer 11%

Embark on a lifetime of adventure in a beautiful world of creativity and intrigue. Raise a family, customise your farm, run a business, craft items, and battle some marvellously malevolent monsters.

Why similar: Farming Sim 29.9%, Crafting 22.7%, Sandbox 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Open World 6.7%

Grow your farm, meet the villagers, and join your friends online in building your world.

Why similar: Farming Sim 29.3%, Agriculture 12.8% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%, Survival 8.8%

Moonlighter is an Action RPG with rogue-lite elements that demonstrates two sides of the coin – revealing everyday routines of Will, an adventurous shopkeeper that secretly dreams of becoming a hero.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 45.7%, RPG 11.9%, Exploration 11.8%, Adventure 9.7%, 2D 9.7%

Craft, farm, build and cook! In Travellers Rest you will have to use all the available tools to become the best tavern keeper in the realm. Create unique dishes and drinks to please your customers as you discover the world and its colorful characters.

Why similar: Farming Sim 35.1%, Crafting 20.1%, Pixel Graphics 16.8%, Building 9%, Resource Management 8.7%

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: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 8.9%, Sandbox 7.9%

A relaxing idle-farming simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things.

Why similar: Farming Sim 40%, Pixel Graphics 16%, Building 12.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 10.5%

Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.1% ★, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 12%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%, Sandbox 5.9%

Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Crafting 23.8%, Survival 23.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Agriculture 8.9% ★, Sandbox 8.9%

A highly addictive survival crafting tower defense game! Gather, craft, build turrets, shoot guns, and expand the land to defend against waves of enemies in World Crafter TD!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Farming Sim 12.4%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 8%

A highly addictive survival crafting tower defense game! Gather, craft, build turrets, shoot guns, and expand the land to defend against waves of enemies! The prologue for the full game, World Crafter TD!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Farming Sim 12.5%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 8.4%

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

Why similar: Farming Sim 19.2%, Crafting 17%, Survival 14%, Sandbox 9.5%, Base Building 9.4%

Conquer PickCrafter, the hit indie idle game! Break blocks, forge equipment, and collect powerful Pickaxes. Prestige to legendary tiers with the new Ascension Skill Tree. Discover biomes and battle epic bosses. Make meaningful choices and invent complex builds in this addictive endless adventure!

Why similar: Crafting 35.6%, Resource Management 19.4%, Pixel Graphics 18.3%, 2D 6%, RPG 4.5%

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

Why similar: Survival 29.9%, Crafting 25.4%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 10.1%, Multiplayer 9%

You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.6% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 14.2%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Sandbox 5.8%

Idle Skilling is the ultimate Idle Game with years of content! Meant to be played for 5-10 minutes a day, you gradually unlock new skills like mining, fishing, pet breeding, crusading, potion-making, lab-research, construction, and more! With new updates coming, you'll never run out of stuff to do!

Why similar: Crafting 30%, Resource Management 22.5%, Pixel Graphics 19.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Simulation 5.6%

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.3% ★, Crafting 14.6%, Survival 12.3%, Sandbox 8.5%, Building 6.6%

Shape your own destiny: Explore, dig for riches, fish, grow crops, cook food, brew and sell potions, expand your property, fight monsters, build camps and hoard your treasures!

Why similar: Crafting 30.4%, Farming Sim 29.7%, Agriculture 11.4% ★, Building 9.5%, Open World 9.3%

Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45% ★, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Base Building 7.1%, Sandbox 5.7%

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 69.6% ★, Survival 21.7%, Crafting 3%, Multiplayer 2.1%, Sandbox 1.3%

Another Farm Roguelike is a 2D farming & crafting game with rougelike elements where your job is to earn as much money as possible to pay the rent. Start from scratch and build the most profitable farm you can make as soon as possible. Work hard to be able to afford the rent.

Why similar: Farming Sim 35.4%, Crafting 25.7%, Pixel Graphics 13.7%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 9.9%

Miniland: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full game. Your task is to build your world and fight against your enemies. The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 8%, Sandbox 7.5%

The ocean took it all… now take it back! In this short semi-idle island builder you’ll resurface fertile farmland - tile by tile. As you plant, harvest and expand you’ll obtain helping hands and discover what else lies below the surface.

Why similar: Farming Sim 43.9%, Resource Management 18.1%, Agriculture 14.1% ★, Pixel Graphics 13.1%, Exploration 6%

Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!

Why similar: Survival 57.3%, Building 22.5%, 2D 7.1%, Simulation 4.1%, Indie 4%