- #1 Factorio
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 231,662 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 45.0 hrsMean: 191.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 36.6%, Base Building 15.1%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive experience for players who love the complex logistics, conveyor belt systems, and resource management found in FortressCraft Evolved!.
- #2 Satisfactory
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 274,659 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.8 hrsMean: 111.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Automation 24.6%, Open World Survival Craft 16.4% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game brings the automation and factory-building genre into a beautiful 3D first-person perspective, mirroring the scale and depth of FortressCraft.
- #3 FOUNDRY
96% matchVery Positive81% of 3,864 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Voxel 13.9% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: This title is a direct spiritual sibling, focusing on first-person factory building within a fully destructible voxel world.
- #4 Dyson Sphere Program
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,085 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 38.6%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an unparalleled sense of scale in automation, tasking players with building interstellar logistics networks that will appeal to fans of industrial expansion.
- #5 Techtonica
94% matchMixed65% of 3,219 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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: Automation 32%, Building 14.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: Set in a beautiful bioluminescent underground world, this first-person factory game emphasizes resource gathering and complex base expansion.
- #6 Mindustry
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 27,276 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 27.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 39.2%, Base Building 17.6%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.6%, Tower Defense 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the intersection of automation and tower defense, requiring players to build supply chains to fuel their defensive turrets.
- #7 The Planet Crafter
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 71,525 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 38.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 34.1% ★, Automation 14.9%, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the satisfying loop of terraforming a barren planet through automation and base-building, much like the progression in FortressCraft.
- #8 ASTRONEER
92% matchVery Positive92% of 138,510 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 37.5% ★, Automation 9.1%, Sandbox 8.3%, Survival 8.1%, Base Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a relaxing yet engaging experience focused on exploration, base-building, and resource automation on alien planets.
- #9 7 Days to Die
91% matchVery Positive87% of 402,373 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 109.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, Voxel 11.9% ★, Survival 10.9%, Building 8.7%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It combines voxel-based building with intense tower defense mechanics, forcing players to fortify their bases against waves of enemies.
- #10 Hydroneer
91% matchVery Positive86% of 28,157 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Automation 25.6%, Sandbox 12.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Mining 11.4% ★, Building 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique voxel-based mining system where players build complex machines and conveyor networks to automate their gold-mining operations.
- #11 Starbound
90% matchVery Positive90% of 123,064 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 64.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 49.9% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 7%, Survival 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: This 2D sandbox offers a massive universe to explore, with deep crafting and base-building mechanics that feel familiar to voxel fans.
- #12 Stationeers
89% matchVery Positive88% of 9,110 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 83.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Crafting 13.2%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 12.2%, Base Building 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: For players who enjoy the technical complexity of FortressCraft, this game offers deep, realistic simulation of atmospheric and electrical systems.
- #13 TerraTech
89% matchVery Positive91% of 24,767 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 32.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Building 15.5%, Sandbox 13.8%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 7%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on building custom vehicles and bases from scavenged parts, emphasizing the creative and combat-oriented side of sandbox games.
- #14 Dig or Die
88% matchVery Positive90% of 4,273 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.2% ★, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 9.6%, Building 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: This 2D survival game requires players to build defenses and automate resource collection to survive against increasingly difficult enemy waves.
- #15 From the Depths
87% matchVery Positive89% of 12,716 reviews2020
Dev: Brilliant Skies Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 40.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.
Why similar: Voxel 20.7% ★, Building 18.8%, Sandbox 17.9%, Crafting 17.2%, Survival 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers extreme depth in vehicle construction and physics-based combat, appealing to players who enjoy the engineering aspects of FortressCraft.
- #16 Craft The World
86% matchVery Positive88% of 16,973 reviews2014
Dev: Dekovir EntertainmentPub: Dekovir Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 38.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 23.3%, Building 21.3%, Sandbox 21.1%, Survival 11%, Open World 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim blends voxel building with resource management and tower defense, requiring players to protect their dwarves from nightly invasions.
- #17 Creativerse
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Voxel 13.7% ★, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A vibrant voxel sandbox that emphasizes exploration and building, providing a more accessible take on the genre.
- #18 Castle Story
85% matchMixed65% of 10,591 reviews2017
Dev: Sauropod Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Building 17.2%, Sandbox 14.6%, Survival 7%, Crafting 7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines real-time strategy with voxel building, tasking players with constructing defensive castles to protect their workers.
- #19 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
83% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,271 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Voxel 12.1% ★, Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This space-faring survival game allows for extensive base and ship building, catering to players who enjoy large-scale construction projects.
- #20 Planet Explorers
84% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.8% ★, Sandbox 13.5%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 6.8%, Open World 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique mix of voxel-based terrain modification and RPG elements, allowing for creative building and exploration.
- #21 shapez
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,623 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Automation 34.5%, Crafting 14.7%, Sandbox 14.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It strips automation down to its core, focusing entirely on the logic and logistics of processing shapes through increasingly complex factory lines.
- #22 Nova Lands
81% matchVery Positive89% of 3,465 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 28.3% ★, Automation 20.6%, Sandbox 9.5%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A charming automation and exploration game that simplifies the factory-building loop while maintaining a satisfying sense of progression.
- #23 Rising World
82% matchVery Positive86% of 5,920 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Voxel 12.1% ★, Crafting 9.5%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based sandbox that offers a high degree of freedom in building and exploration, perfect for those who enjoy the creative side of FortressCraft.
- #24 Autonauts
81% matchVery Positive90% of 4,943 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Automation 40.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the automation aspect by allowing players to program robotic workers to perform repetitive tasks, creating a self-sustaining colony.
- #25 Eden Crafters
77% matchVery Positive86% of 2,537 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Automation 18.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 8.3%, Base Building 8.1%
- #26 Crashlands
79% matchVery Positive89% of 6,716 reviews2016
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 37.4% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 8.6%, Base Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a fast-paced survival and crafting experience with a strong focus on exploration and combat in a hostile alien environment.
- #27 Force of Nature
80% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,205 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.9% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Sandbox 9%, Survival 8.8%, Building 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that focuses on exploration and building, providing a solid foundation for those who enjoy gathering and crafting loops.
- #28 Eco
78% matchVery Positive81% of 13,962 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.7 hrsMean: 89.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 11.3%, Survival 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game adds a layer of global resource management and environmental impact to the traditional base-building and survival loop.
- #29 TerraTech Worlds
78% matchMixed63% of 2,256 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 30.1% ★, Automation 11.5%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 8.5%
- #30 Star Crafter
77% matchMixed70% of 105 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Automation 13.9%, Crafting 9.5%, Voxel 8.3% ★, Base Building 7.5%
- #31 Edge of Space
79% matchMostly Negative33% of 2,729 reviews2015
Dev: Handyman StudiosPub: Reverb Triple XP
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.1% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 5.2%, Building 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: This 2D space-survival game features heavy emphasis on mining, crafting, and base-building in a dangerous, procedurally generated environment.
- #32 World Crafter TD
76% matchMixed46% of 653 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 31%
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 34.7% ★, Automation 18.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 8.6%, Survival 6.3%
- #33 Wrongworld
75% matchVery Positive94% of 550 reviews2018
Dev: Sludj Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic (and ridiculous) survival adventure. Will you manage to stay alive as you unravel the mysteries of Wrongworld and search for a way home?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.2% ★, Sandbox 8.8%, Survival 8.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Building 7.7%
- #34 Space Trash Scavenger
73% matchVery Positive84% of 521 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 33.1% ★, Automation 18.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 8.3%, Building 7.7%
- #35 World Crafter TD: Prologue
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 102 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
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 36.5% ★, Automation 19%, Crafting 11.8%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 6.4%
- #36 Minicology
74% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Isaac DennerPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You have crash-landed into a mini-verse of tiny planets. Welcome to Minicology! Embark on an interstellar survival sandbox journey. Use your crafting, combat, and automation skills to survive the many challenges this mini-verse throws at you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Automation 17.3%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 8.7%
- #37 Fragmented
76% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.3% ★, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 8.3%, Sandbox 7.3%, Building 6.4%
- #38 Skyformer
72% matchVery Positive84% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
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 32.4% ★, Automation 19.8%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 9%, Base Building 8.6%
- #39 Cubic Odyssey
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,674 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 45.8% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 12.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 4%
- #40 Blockscape
75% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The ultimate block building game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.7% ★, Sandbox 12%, Crafting 7.9%, Building 7.1%, Survival 5.3%
- #41 Forager
71% matchVery Positive90% of 43,749 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.1% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 9.4%, Sandbox 7.9%, Base Building 5.9%
- #42 Craterbound
73% matchMixed54% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Marquez
Windows
Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.4% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 9.3%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #43 Prospector
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 152 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
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 23.9% ★, Automation 17.7%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9.4%
- #44 Solace Crafting
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 894 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, Base Building 8.7%
- #45 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
68% matchVery Positive91% of 7,488 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Automation 16%, Crafting 9.1%, Base Building 8.3%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #46 Signs of Life
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 841 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.4% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 11%, Survival 7.8%, Building 7.2%
- #47 Necesse
65% matchVery Positive93% of 27,498 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 43.3% ★, Automation 10%, Sandbox 8.6%, Crafting 8.2%, Building 6.6%
- #48 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,689 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 36.7% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Automation 9.6%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 8.8%
- #49 Boundless
70% matchMixed69% of 2,770 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.4% ★, Voxel 12.3% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 8.8%
- #50 XenoHaven
66% matchVery Positive86% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Automation 10.5%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 8.7%
- #51 GRAV
70% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.2% ★, Sandbox 10%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 9.1%, Crafting 9%
- #52 Outerverse
69% matchMixed50% of 125 reviews2022
Dev: Tbjbu2Pub: indie.io
Windows
Build automated machines and weapons across the universe, beat massive bosses, experience cosmic events and explore unique landmarks in this quest driven automation crafting adventure game. Includes a manual scenario for crafting instead of machines for those not a fan of logic/automation!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Voxel 18.7% ★, Automation 17.4%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 7.4%
- #53 StarMade
69% matchMixed68% of 2,989 reviews2014
Dev: Schine GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
Why similar: Sandbox 23.2%, Voxel 18.4% ★, Building 16.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 10.2%
- #54 Evospace
68% matchVery Positive83% of 391 reviews2019
Dev: Quantum Rivet
Windows · Mac
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Crafting 15.7%, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 11.8%, Base Building 11.6%
- #55 Orebound
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 944 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Automation 21.8%, Voxel 14.1% ★, Crafting 12%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #56 Planetaries
67% matchMixed58% of 226 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Building 10%, Sandbox 8.7%, Base Building 8.3%
- #57 StarRupture
63% matchVery Positive81% of 12,866 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 31.9% ★, Automation 18.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Base Building 8.7%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #58 AETHUS
63% matchVery Positive95% of 1,920 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Automation 15.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 9.1%
