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 31.1% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9%, Farming Sim 8.9%, Base Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It captures Forager’s upbeat gather-craft-expand loop almost exactly, then adds even more automation and island-hopping progression.

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 33.6% ★, Farming Sim 14.8%, Crafting 13.5%, Base Building 8.6%, Sandbox 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is another highly streamlined, active-idle crafting game where constant harvesting, upgrades, and base expansion create the same compulsive flow.

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 34.6% ★, Farming Sim 16.5%, Crafting 14.4%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: As a free standalone intro to Outpath, it delivers the same fast resource collection and relaxing upgrade-heavy loop that Forager fans love.

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 12.8%, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 7.9%, Sandbox 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: The top-down pixel exploration, mining, crafting, farming, and base building make it a great fit if you want a deeper, more adventure-focused Forager-like.

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 47.2% ★, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 6.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Forager’s top-down sandbox appeal while adding colony management, exploration, and combat to the resource-driven progression loop.

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 11.2%, Base Building 7.4%, Sandbox 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its quirky tone, streamlined crafting, and constant checklist of upgrades and unlocks scratch a lot of the same itches as Forager.

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 32.7%, Survival 27%, Sandbox 19%, Open World 9.4%, Exploration 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its simple but satisfying gather-to-unlock-new-land structure feels very close to Forager’s compact, endlessly rewarding progression.

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 35.6% ★, Crafting 16%, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 7.6%, Sandbox 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This gives you the same satisfying cycle of gathering, crafting, exploring islands, and improving your little base from scratch.

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 40.4% ★, Survival 13.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 7.6%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It starts with humble survival gathering and steadily snowballs into a huge crafting and tech progression arc with a very similar sense of momentum.

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 45.4% ★, Farming Sim 13.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Agriculture 9.7% ★, Sandbox 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It has a similarly relaxed collect-craft-build rhythm, just with a bigger social and town-building layer wrapped around it.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.2% ★, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: While more combat-heavy, its explore-mine-craft-build progression is one of the best matches for Forager’s sandbox growth loop.

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 44.6% ★, Survival 22.9%, Crafting 14%, Sandbox 7%, Multiplayer 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same core survival-crafting DNA, though with much harsher survival pressure and more emphasis on improvisation.

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 21.3%, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 10%, Open World 8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers top-down pixel survival crafting with exploration, base development, and a steady stream of upgrades that feel very Forager-adjacent.

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 10.2%, Resource Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Forager was gradually automating chores and optimizing production, this leans hard into that exact fantasy.

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 9.7%, Sandbox 8.1%, Building 6.8%, RPG 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its cheerful gathering, crafting, farming, and building systems deliver a similarly rewarding sense of making a world flourish piece by piece.

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

Why You'll Like It: Even in first person, it nails the same addictive loop of harvesting resources, crafting machines, expanding your base, and visibly transforming the world.

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

Why You'll Like It: This is a colorful 2D sandbox full of gathering, crafting, building, and exploration that mirrors Forager’s lighter, more playful side.

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 49.7% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Pixel Graphics 5%

Why You'll Like It: Its mix of mining, crafting, farming, and base building across colorful worlds makes it a strong pick for players who want more exploration scale.

Gather your friends and come to Tinkertown - A refreshing new Multiplayer Sandbox Experience! Explore magical places filled with loot, danger, and creativity.

Why similar: Crafting 23.1%, Pixel Graphics 13.6%, Sandbox 12.9%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This blends pixel-art sandbox exploration, crafting, and town building in a way that will feel familiar to anyone who liked Forager’s structure.

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 43.7% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 7.8%, Sandbox 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Resource collection, crafting, exploration, and steadily expanding a functional base give it a familiar progression feel despite the sci-fi setting.

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 11.8%, Agriculture 10.2% ★, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: Although more farm- and life-sim-focused, it delivers the same cozy resource collection and constant sense of incremental growth.

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 19.7%, Sandbox 13.3%, Agriculture 8.4% ★, Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its layered crafting chains and endless stream of unlocks create a similarly absorbing "one more task" loop for progression-minded players.

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 12.6% ★, Sandbox 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same compact top-down charm and relaxing gather-and-build loop, just with more town customization and less survival pressure.

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 13.2%, Agriculture 9% ★, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its whole appeal is tearing the world apart for resources and turning that into steady crafting progression and map expansion.

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 19.8%, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 14.1%, Resource Management 13%

Why You'll Like It: Its blend of cozy exploration and production-chain automation feels like a natural next step for players who loved Forager’s machine-driven progression.

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 43.7% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 7.5%, Base Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This mixes relaxed gathering and building with exploration and light dungeon combat in a way that feels like a more action-oriented Forager.

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 13.4%, Open World 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a dense resource and crafting loop with lots of base development, appealing to the management-heavy side of Forager.

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 30.6% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Farming Sim 10.9%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 7.3%

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: Base Building 19.8%, Sandbox 16.2%, Crafting 14.5%, Resource Management 11.7%, Building 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on harvesting resources, building production setups, and optimizing your operation makes it a good match for Forager’s progression compulsion.

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 28.9%, Crafting 22.9%, Base Building 14.2%, Agriculture 11.9% ★, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Cleaning up the world for materials, crafting useful tools, and building up your homestead creates a similarly satisfying upgrade treadmill.

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 11%, Sandbox 7.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%

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 32.2% ★, Crafting 16.5%, Survival 14.3%, Base Building 10%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is a strong top-down crafting-survival pick with exploration, base building, and resource grinding that lines up well with Forager’s core 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%, Crafting 22.3%, Agriculture 9% ★, Open World 7.6%, Sandbox 7.2%

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 37.5% ★, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%

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 17.9%, Pixel Graphics 13.9%, Agriculture 10.9% ★, Multiplayer 8.1%

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 45.6% ★, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%, Sandbox 5.8%

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

Why similar: Farming Sim 29.1%, Agriculture 13% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%

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%, Open World 26%, Exploration 17%, Adventure 11.7%, Singleplayer 5.7%

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 28.6% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 8.8%, Sandbox 7.9%

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 29.7%, Crafting 22.7%, Sandbox 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%, Open World 6.8%

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 45.6%, RPG 12%, Exploration 11.9%, Adventure 9.8%, 2D 9.6%

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 26.9%, Pixel Graphics 19.9%, Sandbox 14.9%, Resource Management 13.6%, Multiplayer 12%

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 34.9%, Crafting 20.2%, Pixel Graphics 17%, Building 9.2%, Resource Management 8.5%

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 56.2%, Building 24.6%, 2D 8.2%, Adventure 6.5%, Singleplayer 4.5%

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 39.2% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Farming Sim 12.3%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 8.4%

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 37.6% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Farming Sim 12.2%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 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 32.4% ★, Crafting 15.8%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 7.7%, Sandbox 6.6%

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 23.9%, Building 18.2%, Indie 8.8%, 2D 7.7%

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 35.8%, Resource Management 19.1%, Pixel Graphics 18.3%, 2D 6%, RPG 4.6%

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 19.1%, Crafting 17.1%, Survival 14%, Sandbox 9.5%, Base Building 9.4%

Continue the adventures of Beatrix LeBeau as she journeys across the Slime Sea to Rainbow Island, a land brimming with ancient mysteries, and bursting with wiggly, new slimes to wrangle in this sequel to the smash-hit, Slime Rancher.

Why similar: Open World 35.1%, Building 30.5%, Adventure 12.5%, Simulation 9.1%, Singleplayer 7.4%

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 45.1% ★, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 14%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Sandbox 5.7%

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 25.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 10.1%, Multiplayer 8.9%

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 29.5%, Agriculture 11.5% ★, Building 9.5%, Open World 9.4%

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

Why similar: Farming Sim 34.9%, Base Building 15.7%, Pixel Graphics 14.6%, Resource Management 13%, Building 12.5%

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 70% ★, Survival 21.5%, Crafting 3%, Multiplayer 2.1%, Sandbox 1.3%

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 45.4% ★, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 11.7%, Base Building 7%, Sandbox 5.7%