Games Like Forever Skies

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 8.7%, Open World 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique mobile base mechanic where you pilot a drill ship to survive volcanic eruptions.

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Co-op 10.1%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and upgrading a mobile train base as you traverse a surreal, interdimensional void.

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 24.5% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Co-op 9.3%, Survival 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a satisfying loop of terraforming and base-building on a desolate alien planet.

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.7% ★, Survival 14%, Co-op 11.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Base Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive mobile base-building survival game where you expand your platform while navigating a flooded world.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Survival 12%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 10%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the gold standard for atmospheric, first-person sci-fi survival and deep-sea exploration.

Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Co-op 13.1%, Survival 11.6%, Building 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features floating island survival with glider mechanics that mirror the vertical exploration found in Forever Skies.

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 9.3%, Co-op 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers session-based survival with intense atmospheric challenges and high-stakes resource gathering.

Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.

Why similar: Survival 14.9%, Crafting 14.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on a vehicle as your primary mobile home and survival tool in a mysterious, supernatural environment.

Desert Skies takes survival to the air! Build an airship and fly on an adventure through the deserts of the Wild West. Look for places to land and scavenge for loot, expand your airship and craft new equipment, but beware the dangers lurking beneath the sands!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.3% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 8.8%, Building 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to build and customize a flying airship to survive in a dangerous, desert-themed post-apocalyptic world.

Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.5% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based survival game that emphasizes scavenging, crafting, and managing resources in a hostile vacuum.

Survive the skies in Echoes of Elysium, a co-op airship survival RPG. Build and customize your floating fortress, gather resources, and explore a vast procedural clockwork world with up to 6 friends. Battle land and skyborne threats while uncovering mysteries in a paradise on the brink.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Co-op 13%, Survival 10.9%, Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines airship exploration, vehicular combat, and survival in a high-fantasy sky world.

StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Base Building 14%, Co-op 10.6%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines automation and survival in a visually striking alien environment.

In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Co-op 8.8%, Resource Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on mech-based farming and exploration, providing a more relaxed but still engaging survival experience.

Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A portal-hopping survival game with a distinct Victorian-fantasy aesthetic and deep crafting systems.

Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 9.8%, Co-op 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features unique vertical exploration and survival mechanics from the perspective of a tiny creature in a massive world.

Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Science 12.9% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A scientific facility survival game that rewards clever crafting and exploration in a dangerous, contained environment.

Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Continues the immersive survival and exploration loop of the original with a focus on icy, vertical environments.

Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Co-op 12.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on water-based base building and survival, requiring you to scavenge the ruins of a submerged world.

Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides detailed survival mechanics and exploration that reward careful planning and resource management.

Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.8% ★, Base Building 19.4%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 8.6%, Exploration 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on cooperative exploration of floating islands with a strong emphasis on crafting and adventure.

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Base Building 19.8%, Crafting 16.4%, Survival 13.8%, Open World 13.6%, Exploration 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival and crafting game set in a desolate world that focuses on long-term base development.

Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Co-op 10.4%, Survival 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features mobile base-building on a moving platform, forcing you to constantly adapt to new threats.

The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 9.9%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game with a heavy emphasis on base building and defensive structures.

TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 10.5%, Co-op 10%, Survival 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for extensive vehicle construction and exploration in a sandbox environment.

Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 8.4%, Co-op 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automation and base building in a survival setting, allowing you to transform a hostile planet.

Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Co-op 10.8%, Building 8.6%, Open World 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that blends sandbox base building with exploration in a stylized world.

Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.2% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: A space survival game that emphasizes first-person exploration and resource management in zero gravity.

Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!

Why similar: Co-op 16.7%, Survival 14.5%, Open World 14.5%, Crafting 14.4%, Building 13.3%

VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.

Why similar: Base Building 17.4%, Survival 14.9%, Open World 14%, Co-op 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%

Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.

Why similar: Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 11.1%, Co-op 10.6%, Resource Management 10.3%

A fiercely formidable sci-fi survival game, set on a hostile alien world that wants you dead! Alone, or with a crew, do you have what it takes to survive?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Co-op 12.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game with strong sci-fi themes and a focus on alien exploration.

Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 9.4%, Open World 9.3%

Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Survival 8.8%

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: Base Building 20.9%, Open World 17.7%, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 14.6%, Building 9%

I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Open World 10.5%, Building 10.4%

This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.

Why similar: Survival 18.3%, Open World 15.4%, Crafting 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Co-op 10.1%

Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.

Why similar: Base Building 21.3%, Survival 15.5%, Science 13.5% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Resource Management 9.1%

Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.6% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 13.4%, Co-op 11.2%, Crafting 9.9%

Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 9%, Open World 7.9%, Multiplayer 6.1%

The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Base Building 15%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 10.1%, Survival 9.7%

Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 9%, Base Building 8.7%, Multiplayer 7.7%

Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 8.5%

Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Base Building 14%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 9.2%

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Base Building 9.3%, Open World 8.8%

Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 9.3%

While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.6% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 11.3%

Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

Why similar: Base Building 22.1%, Building 14.9%, Crafting 14.8%, Resource Management 12.4%, Co-op 10.7%

Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.

Why similar: Base Building 14.4%, Co-op 11.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 10.4%

Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Co-op 11.1%, Survival 9%, Crafting 8.1%

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 9.1%, Multiplayer 7.5%

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 27.9% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Open World 10.2%, Survival 10.1%, Co-op 8.7%

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Base Building 18.9%, Open World Survival Craft 12.7% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Co-op 10.1%, Open World 10.1%

Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.2%, Post-apocalyptic 7.9%, Open World 7.5%

Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Survival 9.9%

Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.6% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 8.7%, Building 7.9%

You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 11%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 8.3%

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 27.5% ★, Survival 14.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Co-op 11.7%, Crafting 9.8%

KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Co-op 10.6%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.6%