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 31.2% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9%, Farming Sim 8.8%, Base Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It’s one of the closest modern alternatives to Forager, built around gathering, crafting, island expansion, and eventually automating your resource production.

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 11.5%, Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This nails Forager’s active-idle compulsion by chaining harvesting, crafting, upgrades, and base expansion into a constant stream of rewards.

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 32.1% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 7.9%, Sandbox 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its approachable sandbox progression of mining, crafting, exploration, farming, and base building delivers the same addictive sense of always unlocking something new.

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 47.5% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 6.2%, Pixel Graphics 6%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down pixel sandbox combines Forager-like resource loops with broader exploration, building, and light colony automation.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.4% ★, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Forager’s nonstop gather-craft-build progression, just with more combat depth and a much larger world to dig into.

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 39.5% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 7.4%, Sandbox 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its streamlined crafting, exploration, questing, and base-building loop captures the same breezy but highly rewarding progression feel.

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 41.5% ★, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 7.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This colorful top-down survival sandbox emphasizes gathering, crafting, exploration, and base building in a very Forager-friendly format.

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 35.7% ★, Crafting 16%, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 7.6%, Sandbox 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its island gathering, crafting, exploration, and light automation systems make it a strong fit for players who liked Forager’s playful survival loop.

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 32.6%, Survival 27%, Sandbox 18.9%, Open World 9.5%, Exploration 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Like Forager, it is centered on constantly chopping, mining, crafting, and unlocking more of the world in a very snackable progression loop.

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 21.4%, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival crafter mixes pixel-art exploration, base growth, and satisfying resource gathering in a way that feels very adjacent to Forager.

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 40.5% ★, Survival 13.7%, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 7.5%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It starts with simple gathering and survival but steadily snowballs into a huge crafting and progression sandbox much like Forager’s escalation.

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 49.8% ★, Crafting 10%, Survival 9.4%, Sandbox 9%, Pixel Graphics 5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a Terraria-like mix of exploration, crafting, farming, and building that scratches the same sandbox progression itch.

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 19.7%, Farming Sim 18.9%, Pixel Graphics 13%, Agriculture 12.7% ★, Sandbox 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its cozy resource collection and town expansion loop captures Forager’s relaxed but compulsive sense of incremental growth.

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 20.2%, Crafting 19.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 10.2%, Resource Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Forager was optimizing production, this turns that automation side into the main event in a similarly charming style.

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 26.9%, Open World 26.1%, Exploration 17.1%, Adventure 11.8%, Singleplayer 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: While less craft-heavy, it has the same irresistibly tidy loop of collecting resources, processing them, upgrading, and expanding your home base.

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 45.7% ★, Farming Sim 13.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Agriculture 9.6% ★, Sandbox 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its laid-back gather-craft-build loop and gradual island development make it a great pick if you liked Forager’s cozy expansion vibe.

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 62.2% ★, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 8.1%, Building 6.9%, RPG 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: Although more structured, it delivers the same joy of building something from nothing through gathering, crafting, exploration, and constant unlocks.

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 35.1%, Pixel Graphics 19.6%, Sandbox 13.3%, Agriculture 8.5% ★, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is a strong match for players who enjoyed Forager’s grindy production chains, quirky tone, and constant stream of new crafting goals.

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 13.9%, Agriculture 10.9% ★, Multiplayer 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It leans more into farming RPG elements, but its pixel-art crafting, exploration, and progression systems still overlap nicely with Forager.

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 41.1% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 9.5%, Sandbox 6%

Why You'll Like It: It recreates Forager’s satisfying momentum of harvesting resources, building infrastructure, and visibly transforming the world through progression.

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 27.9%, Crafting 22.2%, Agriculture 9% ★, Open World 7.7%, Sandbox 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its workshop-centered progression of gathering materials, crafting better tools, and expanding your capabilities scratches part of the same upgrade itch.

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 43.8% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Base Building 7.7%, Sandbox 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a good fit if you want Forager’s gather-and-expand loop translated into a bigger 3D sandbox with base building and exploration.

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 43.9% ★, Crafting 13%, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 7.5%, Base Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It blends light survival, exploration, farming, and base building into a smooth progression loop that feels relaxing in the same way Forager does.

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 30.5%, Crafting 14%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, Agriculture 10.2% ★, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: It is less sandboxy and less automation-driven than Forager, but the cozy harvesting, crafting, and improvement loop still hits a similar relaxing groove.

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 23.8%, Crafting 23.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Agriculture 9% ★, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its core pleasure comes from tearing the world apart for materials, crafting upgrades, and steadily opening up more possibilities.

A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.

Why similar: Crafting 27.7%, Base Building 18%, Sandbox 16%, Resource Management 14.1%, Building 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its 2D crafting, logistics, and automation systems strongly echo Forager’s later-game focus on optimizing resource production.

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 30.2% ★, Crafting 13%, Farming Sim 11%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 7.5%

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 14.1%, Resource Management 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes cute exploration with automated production chains, making it especially appealing if you loved Forager’s upgrade-and-efficiency spiral.

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 45.2% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: This 2D sandbox focuses on gathering, crafting, building, and exploration in a compact format that should appeal to Terraria-and-Forager fans alike.

The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!

Why similar: Crafting 25.7%, Survival 20.8%, Sandbox 17.9%, Building 12.2%, Multiplayer 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its accessible crafting, combat, exploration, and building make it a friendly sandbox alternative with a similarly upbeat feel.

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 34.8% ★, Farming Sim 16.5%, Crafting 14.3%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 7.2%

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 29.8%, Survival 17.9%, Sandbox 16.7%, Building 13.4%, Open World 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Resource gathering, crafting stations, and expanding your operations give it a progression rhythm that overlaps well with Forager’s management side.

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 20.1%, Sandbox 14.7%, Resource Management 13.3%, Multiplayer 12.2%

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 44.7% ★, Survival 22.9%, Crafting 14%, Sandbox 6.9%, Multiplayer 2.5%

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 37.7% ★, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%

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 35.1%, Crafting 20.2%, Pixel Graphics 17%, Building 9.2%, Resource Management 8.3%

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

Why similar: Farming Sim 29%, Agriculture 13% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 8.9%, Building 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 45.9%, RPG 12.1%, Exploration 11.8%, Adventure 10%, 2D 9.3%

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 22.6%, Sandbox 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 10%, 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 28.8% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 8.9%, Sandbox 7.9%

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 26.7%, Farming Sim 17.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%, Resource Management 11.6%, Building 10.1%

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 37.8% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Farming Sim 12.1%, 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 39.5% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Farming Sim 12.2%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 8.4%

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 45.8% ★, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%, Sandbox 5.8%

Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Crafting 15.7%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 7.8%, Sandbox 6.5%

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

Why similar: Survival 30%, Crafting 25.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 10.1%, Multiplayer 8.9%

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 17.1%, Survival 14.1%, 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 35.9%, Resource Management 18.8%, Pixel Graphics 18.4%, 2D 6%, RPG 4.7%

Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.

Why similar: Base Building 53.8%, Building 23.5%, 2D 7.7%, Adventure 6.2%, Indie 4.4%

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 37.9% ★, Farming Sim 13.7%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 9.8%, Base 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 30.3%, Farming Sim 29.4%, Agriculture 11.5% ★, Building 9.6%, Open World 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 29.1%, Resource Management 23.5%, Building 18.4%, Indie 8.8%, 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 45.3% ★, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 14%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%, Sandbox 5.7%

The Islander is a fast building/farming game set somewhere in an exotic Polynesia. Plant crops, bushes and trees, build livestock pens, but don’t forget to make it look classy by adding various decorations.

Why similar: Farming Sim 44.4%, Pixel Graphics 11%, Agriculture 9.7% ★, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 8.5%

The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.

Why similar: Farming Sim 27.5%, Crafting 19.8%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%, Agriculture 10.6% ★, Sandbox 9.9%

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 45.6% ★, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 11.6%, Base Building 7%, Sandbox 5.6%

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

Why similar: Farming Sim 39.4%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%, Building 13.5%, Resource Management 12.4%, Base Building 11.1%