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 30.9% ★, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 9.1%, Farming Sim 8.9%, Base Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest overall match to Forager, blending cute exploration, nonstop resource harvesting, island expansion, crafting, and automation into the same addictive active-idle 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 32.5% ★, Farming Sim 14.3%, Crafting 13.1%, Base Building 8.4%, Sandbox 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This captures Forager’s fast dopamine-hit progression with constant gathering, crafting, base building, and unlock chains that always give you one more thing to do.

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% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 8%, Sandbox 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its explore-mine-craft-build loop delivers the same satisfying sense of steadily expanding your capabilities and base, just with more combat and underground exploration.

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

Why You'll Like It: This offers a very similar top-down cycle of gathering, crafting, base building, and expanding into a bigger world, with extra colony-management depth.

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 39.3% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 7.4%, Sandbox 7%

Why You'll Like It: Like Forager, it turns collecting everything in sight into meaningful crafting progression while keeping the pace light, colorful, and constantly rewarding.

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 35.5% ★, Crafting 16.1%, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 7.6%, Sandbox 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Forager’s approachable survival-crafting feel and adds a similarly playful sense of optimization through automation and exploration.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45% ★, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: If you love Forager’s loop of harvesting, crafting, building, and uncovering new possibilities, Terraria offers a deeper but still highly compulsive 2D sandbox version of that formula.

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 34.6%, Pixel Graphics 19.5%, Sandbox 13.2%, Agriculture 8.3% ★, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Like Forager, it is built around dense crafting chains, constant upgrades, and an endlessly compelling 'just one more task' progression loop.

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 45.2% ★, Farming Sim 13.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Agriculture 9.7% ★, Sandbox 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It scratches the same itch of exploring, gathering, crafting, and gradually developing your own space, only in a more social, Animal Crossing-like world.

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 13.1%, Agriculture 12.6% ★, Sandbox 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It keeps the cozy top-down feel and satisfying town-growth progression of Forager, but with a more relaxed life-sim focus.

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 40.2% ★, Survival 13.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 7.6%, Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its 2D pixel progression from simple gathering into increasingly ambitious crafting and world expansion feels very close to Forager’s early-to-late-game arc.

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 62.1% ★, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 8.2%, Building 6.9%, RPG 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is a great fit if your favorite part of Forager was turning raw materials into a lively, ever-growing base while exploring for new resources.

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 49.4% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9.5%, Sandbox 9.1%, Pixel Graphics 5%

Why You'll Like It: Its sandbox progression of exploring, harvesting, crafting, and building across a huge world makes it a strong next step for someone who liked Forager’s freedom.

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 15.6%, Sandbox 10.3%, Resource Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: If the automation side of Forager hooked you, this focuses heavily on building self-running systems that turn gathering and crafting into efficient production lines.

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 44.4% ★, Survival 23%, Crafting 14.1%, Sandbox 7%, Multiplayer 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is a good fit if you liked Forager’s survival-crafting foundation but want a tougher, more punishing version of that resource-management loop.

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 9% ★, Sandbox 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: The core pleasure here is the same as Forager: break down the world for materials, upgrade your tools, and open up more of the map as you go.

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: Its resource collection, crafting systems, and base expansion create a similarly addictive loop of turning a rough wilderness into an efficient production hub.

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: This top-down survival sandbox matches Forager’s appeal of exploring for materials, upgrading steadily, and growing stronger through crafting-heavy 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 28%, Crafting 22.3%, Agriculture 9% ★, Open World 7.6%, Sandbox 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the workshop progression side of Forager, where collecting materials and crafting better machines steadily opens up new goals and areas.

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 44.8% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is another 2D sandbox where gathering, crafting, and building are the heart of the experience, with a similarly straightforward and cozy appeal.

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 26%, Exploration 17%, Adventure 11.6%, Singleplayer 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: While less crafting-heavy, it nails that same cheerful loop of collecting resources, expanding your base, and optimizing a cute, productive little empire.

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 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: If you want Forager’s cozy resource loop mixed with more farming, quests, and RPG structure, Sun Haven is an easy recommendation.

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% ★, Crafting 16.6%, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 10%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same satisfying rhythm of gathering natural resources, crafting stations, exploring outward, and unlocking more complex production.

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 43.5% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 7.8%, Sandbox 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its charm comes from exploring, vacuuming up resources, crafting new tools, and steadily reshaping your base and the world around you.

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 43.5% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 7.6%, Base Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines approachable survival, gathering, crafting, and home-building in a way that feels like a more action-oriented 3D cousin to Forager.

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 11.8%, Agriculture 10.2% ★, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: It is less automation-driven, but the daily rhythm of gathering, crafting, improving your land, and unlocking more options hits a similar relaxing progression itch.

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: This leans into the same blend of exploration, resource gathering, and whimsical automation that makes Forager’s mid-to-late game so satisfying.

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 9.9%, Open World 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is a looser match, but it still delivers a charming sandbox of exploration, gathering, crafting, and long-term world progression for players who liked Forager’s cozy side.

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

Why similar: Farming Sim 29.1%, Agriculture 12.9% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%, Survival 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This offers a similarly gentle sandbox of gathering, building, and shaping your own space, with more emphasis on farming and village life.

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 41.1% ★, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 7.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%

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 12.8%, Farming Sim 11%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 7.3%

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 34.4% ★, Farming Sim 16.6%, Crafting 14.4%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 7.4%

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 23.3%, Crafting 20.4%, Agriculture 13.5% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its appeal comes from collecting, crafting, upgrading your home area, and exploring at a relaxed pace, much like the softer side of Forager.

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 37.3% ★, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%

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 28.5% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 8.9%, Sandbox 7.9%

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 55.9%, Building 24.8%, 2D 8.3%, Adventure 6.5%, Singleplayer 4.5%

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%

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 12%, Exploration 11.9%, Adventure 9.7%, 2D 9.6%

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 45.4% ★, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%, Sandbox 5.8%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Farming Sim 12.3%, 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 39.1% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Farming Sim 12.3%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 8.4%

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 22.4%, 2D 7.1%, Simulation 4.1%, Indie 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 35.7%, 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%, Survival 14%, Sandbox 9.5%, Base Building 9.4%

Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Crafting 16.3%, Survival 15.5%, Sandbox 7.4%, Multiplayer 5.9%

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 44.9% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Sandbox 5.7%

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%, Crafting 20.1%, Pixel Graphics 17.1%, Building 9.1%, Resource Management 8.5%

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%

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 29.6%, Agriculture 11.5% ★, Building 9.5%, Open World 9.4%

An action-adventure roguelike with a bit of RPG tossed in. Adventure deep into the UnderMine and discover powerful relics, deadly enemies, hidden secrets, and a few friends to help along the way.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 58.5%, RPG 13%, Adventure 8.8%, Indie 8.6%, 2D 7.4%

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Survival 28.5%, Base Building 23.8%, Resource Management 14.4%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9.3%

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 35.3%, Crafting 25.8%, Pixel Graphics 13.8%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 10%

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 23.8%, Building 18.3%, Indie 8.8%, 2D 7.7%

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%

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 69.9% ★, Survival 21.6%, Crafting 3%, Multiplayer 2.1%, Sandbox 1.3%

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 11.1%, Agriculture 9.7% ★, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 8.4%

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 45.2% ★, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 11.7%, Base Building 7.1%, Sandbox 5.7%