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 31.4% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9.1%, Farming Sim 8.8%, Base Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its compact islands, constant gathering, tool progression, base expansion, and optional automation make it one of the closest modern takes on Forager's gameplay loop.

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

Why similar: Crafting 23.3%, Base Building 15%, Sandbox 13.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person sandbox centers on harvesting, crafting upgrades, expanding your buildable space, and automating resource production without survival-game pressure.

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 32.3% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 7.8%, Sandbox 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines a charming top-down pixel world with mining, crafting, boss progression, farming, and an endlessly expandable underground base.

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 47.8% ★, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 6.1%, Pixel Graphics 6%

Why You'll Like It: This pixel-art survival sandbox offers Forager-like gathering and crafting alongside settlement building, NPC workers, exploration, and combat.

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 41.7% ★, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 7.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its bright pixel-art islands encourage gathering, crafting, building, exploration, and combat in a lightweight survival-sandbox format.

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 39.7% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 7.3%, Sandbox 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its humorous action-adventure structure revolves around gathering huge amounts of materials, crafting better gear, building stations, and exploring a colorful alien world.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.6% ★, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: The classic 2D sandbox delivers an enormous progression loop of mining, crafting, building, exploring, and unlocking stronger equipment through bosses.

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 35.9% ★, Crafting 15.9%, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 7.5%, Sandbox 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Gathering materials, crafting tools, building a camp, exploring islands, and automating chores with monkeys gives it a playful Forager-adjacent feel.

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 38% ★, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Forager's top-down pixel presentation and focus on collecting resources, crafting items, building a home, and opening up a larger world.

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: Survival 23.9%, Crafting 23.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Open World 8.9%, Agriculture 8.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its exceptionally satisfying world-wide destruction, material gathering, crafting, upgrades, and exploration create a strong sense of persistent progress.

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 20.3%, Crafting 19.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 10.3%, Resource Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its cheerful resource loop evolves from hands-on gathering and crafting into programming worker bots to run an increasingly elaborate settlement.

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 50% ★, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.4%, Sandbox 9%, Pixel Graphics 5%

Why You'll Like It: Its galaxy of procedurally generated planets provides abundant mining, crafting, farming, building, and exploratory progression in 2D pixel art.

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 38.8% ★, Crafting 18.9%, Survival 15%, Open World 7.2%, Sandbox 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This colorful open-world crafting game lets you gather, farm, build, fight, automate production, and steadily improve your character and base.

Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!

Why similar: Survival 21.5%, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a top-down pixel survival world with resource collection, crafting, farming, base construction, and procedurally generated exploration.

Slap your way across a vibrant world where interstellar friendships are the key to your survival. Befriend eccentric aliens, craft bizarre weaponry, and stick it to the man in this sequel to the award-winning Action RPG Crashlands.

Why similar: Crafting 44.6%, Building 20.2%, RPG 9.4%, Adventure 7.9%, 2D 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: The sequel expands Crashlands' accessible mix of gathering, crafting, combat, creature collecting, and building across a lively alien setting.

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 44.1% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 7.4%, Base Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It pairs fast resource gathering and base building with dungeon exploration, farming, gear upgrades, and a relaxed island atmosphere.

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 44% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Base Building 7.7%, Sandbox 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Exploration, terrain mining, modular base building, research, and production chains provide a gentler 3D alternative to Forager's gathering-driven advancement.

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 45.4% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 8.8%, Building 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: This 2D pixel sandbox emphasizes digging, gathering, crafting, decorating, farming, and discovering new materials across varied worlds.

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 46% ★, Farming Sim 13.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Agriculture 9.6% ★, Sandbox 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: The laid-back outback sandbox combines gathering, crafting, farming, building, exploration, and the gradual growth of a settlement.

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 41.4% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 11.9%, Base Building 9.5%, Sandbox 6%

Why You'll Like It: Its satisfying progression comes from harvesting resources, constructing machines and bases, and visibly transforming an inhospitable planet into a living world.

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 62.4% ★, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 8%, Building 6.8%, RPG 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: This welcoming building RPG makes gathering materials and turning empty land into a bustling, customized settlement its central reward.

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 13.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, Agriculture 10.1% ★, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: While more social and farm-focused, it offers the same highly rewarding rhythm of gathering resources, crafting upgrades, exploring, and improving a personal space.

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%, Pixel Graphics 19.7%, Sandbox 13.3%, Agriculture 8.4% ★, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its darkly comic crafting and management loop is packed with resource processing, upgrades, farming, and incremental expansion of your operation.

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.5% ★, Survival 18.7%, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 9.4%, Multiplayer 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its backyard survival setting turns everyday materials into meaningful crafting resources while rewarding exploration, construction, and steady equipment upgrades.

You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Survival 23.3%, Crafting 19.8%, Base Building 15.3%, Open World 10.1%, Sandbox 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a larger action-survival interpretation of the formula, with resource gathering, crafting, skill progression, exploration, and highly flexible building.

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Survival 23.9%, Crafting 20.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 9.5%, Open World 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Gathering resources, refining them at a personalized castle, unlocking crafting stations, and exploring dangerous regions creates a compelling progression cycle.

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 44.9% ★, Survival 23%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 6.9%, Open World 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: For a more demanding survival-focused version of the loop, it emphasizes scavenging, crafting, base preparation, exploration, and learning a hostile world.

Click, craft and collect your way to alchemical mastery. Progress through a branching skill tree and explore the forbidden woods. Collect resources and build machines of magic. Slay monsters, farm crops and automate your production to become the all-powerful Forage Wizard!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Crafting 13%, Farming Sim 11%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 7.4%

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 19.9%, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 14.2%, Resource Management 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its cozy fantasy automation gameplay turns gathered resources into expanding production chains staffed by cute worker creatures.

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: Crafting 29.8%, Base Building 21.4%, Sandbox 18.1%, Resource Management 15.7%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the pleasure of starting with manual resource collection and growing into increasingly efficient automated production networks.

Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Crafting 16.4%, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 9.8%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival-crafting adventure focuses on harvesting, crafting tools, building a base, farming, and exploring fantasy biomes.

Gather, craft, build and explore alone or with up to 3 friends. Unlock new land, collect resources, build and decorate your home, farm, fish, automate production, upgrade your character, and defend against optional enemy raids.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Farming Sim 13.2%, Crafting 12%, Survival 10.4%, Agriculture 7.1% ★

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 35.2% ★, Farming Sim 16.5%, Crafting 14.3%, Base Building 9.5%, Resource Management 7%

Explore, Build, Farm, Craft and Fight in this survival sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Delve deep to uncover the secret of the invading 'Faults' and restore stability to the land.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, Farming Sim 14%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 6.6%

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 27.8%, Crafting 22.2%, Agriculture 9% ★, Open World 7.8%, Sandbox 7.2%

The incremental idle MMO where your heroes keep fighting while you're gone! Spend their loot on upgrades, unlock classes from Elemental-Wizard to Cannon-Pirate, and level 20 unique skills like Farming, Sailing, and Construction!

Why similar: Crafting 26.9%, Pixel Graphics 20.2%, Sandbox 14.8%, Resource Management 13%, Multiplayer 12.3%

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 26.8%, Open World 26.3%, Exploration 17%, Adventure 11.9%, Singleplayer 5.6%

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 45.9%, RPG 12.1%, Exploration 11.8%, Adventure 10.1%, 2D 9.2%

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 29.6%, Crafting 22.5%, Sandbox 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%, Open World 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 29.1% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 8.8%, Sandbox 7.9%

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

Why similar: Farming Sim 28.9%, Agriculture 12.9% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 8.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%

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 35.2%, Crafting 20.2%, Pixel Graphics 17.1%, Building 9.2%, Resource Management 8.1%

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 17.8%, Pixel Graphics 14%, Agriculture 10.9% ★, Multiplayer 8.1%

Another sun-filled day begins in this cozy pixel-art adventure. Gather, craft, upgrade, and help the villagers revive the land. Can you rebuild the grand Sunspire and bring the village back to its golden days?

Why similar: Crafting 26.9%, Farming Sim 17.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 10.2%

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 19.6%, Farming Sim 18.9%, Pixel Graphics 13%, Agriculture 12.6% ★, Sandbox 10.6%

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 46% ★, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%, Sandbox 5.7%

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 38.1% ★, Crafting 13%, Farming Sim 12.1%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 7.9%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.8% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Farming Sim 12.2%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 8.3%

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 36%, Pixel Graphics 18.5%, Resource Management 18.3%, 2D 6%, RPG 4.7%

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%, Crafting 17%, Survival 14.2%, Sandbox 9.5%, Base Building 9.3%

Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.2% ★, Farming Sim 13.6%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Base Building 6.5%

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: Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Base Building 8.7%, Sandbox 8.4%

Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.

Why similar: Crafting 25%, Resource Management 14.3%, Sandbox 14.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Open World 10.7%

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 30.1%, Farming Sim 29.4%, Agriculture 11.5% ★, Open World 9.6%, Building 9.5%

An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 29.6%, Resource Management 22.9%, Building 18.4%, Indie 8.9%, 2D 7.7%

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 45.5% ★, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%, Sandbox 5.7%

Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 7.8%, Base Building 7.7%