- #1 Factorio
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 233,774 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 192.8 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 36.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive experience for players who love the complex logistics, resource management, and automation found in FortressCraft Evolved!.
- #2 Satisfactory
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 278,339 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 112.6 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 24.2%, Open World Survival Craft 16.6% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person factory builder offers a massive 3D world to explore and automate, mirroring the scale and perspective of FortressCraft Evolved!.
- #3 FOUNDRY
96% matchVery Positive81% of 3,918 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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%, Voxel 14% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person, voxel-based factory building game that focuses on automation and exploration in an infinite procedurally generated world.
- #4 Mindustry
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 27,902 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 38.6%, Base Building 17.8%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 11.7%, Tower Defense 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the intersection of automation and tower defense, requiring players to build supply chains to fuel their defensive turrets.
- #5 Dyson Sphere Program
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,542 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 75.8 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%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 14.7%, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It expands the automation genre to a galactic scale, focusing on complex logistics and massive construction projects across multiple planets.
- #6 The Planet Crafter
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 34.4% ★, Automation 14.5%, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes survival and base-building while tasking players with terraforming an entire planet through automation and resource gathering.
- #7 ASTRONEER
93% matchVery Positive92% of 139,015 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.6 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 37.7% ★, Automation 8.8%, Sandbox 8.3%, Survival 8.2%, Base Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This title features voxel-based terrain manipulation and modular base building with a heavy focus on exploration and resource management.
- #8 Techtonica
92% matchMixed65% of 3,253 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 31.5%, Building 15.1%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: Set beneath the surface of an alien planet, this game combines first-person exploration with deep automation and base-building mechanics.
- #9 7 Days to Die
91% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.3 hrsMean: 110.4 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 34.2% ★, Voxel 11.9% ★, Survival 10.9%, Building 8.7%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides the best voxel-based survival and tower defense experience, forcing players to build fortified bases to withstand nightly zombie hordes.
- #10 From the Depths
91% matchVery Positive89% of 12,793 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 18.9%, Sandbox 17.8%, Crafting 17.2%, Survival 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers unparalleled depth in vehicle construction and logistics, perfect for players who enjoy the technical building aspects of FortressCraft Evolved!.
- #11 Craft The World
90% matchVery Positive88% of 17,055 reviews2014
Dev: Dekovir EntertainmentPub: Dekovir Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 38.4 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 23.4%, Building 21.2%, Sandbox 21.2%, Survival 11%, Open World 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends colony management with sandbox building and tower defense, tasking players with protecting their dwarves from waves of monsters.
- #12 Stationeers
89% matchVery Positive88% of 9,229 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 85.3 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 23.9%, Crafting 13.2%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Base Building 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that requires complex automation and engineering to manage atmospheric, electrical, and mechanical systems.
- #13 Eden Crafters
87% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 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 31.9% ★, Automation 18.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 8.3%, Base Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative open-world game that centers on terraforming and building automated production lines on a harsh alien world.
- #14 Dig or Die
89% matchVery Positive90% of 4,284 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 42.4% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 9.6%, Building 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that forces players to build defenses and automated turrets to survive increasingly difficult nightly attacks.
- #15 Starbound
88% matchVery Positive90% of 123,281 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.4 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 50.1% ★, Sandbox 13.5%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 7%, Survival 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a vast space-faring adventure with voxel-based building, crafting, and survival elements across diverse alien planets.
- #16 Hydroneer
86% matchVery Positive86% of 28,389 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 25.1%, Sandbox 12.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Mining 11.4% ★, Building 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the satisfying loop of mining and building automated machinery to process resources in a sandbox environment.
- #17 Terraria
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,548,448 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.8 hrsMean: 151.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.9% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 8.9%, Survival 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: While 2D, it offers a deep voxel-based world filled with exploration, crafting, and intense boss battles that require strategic base defenses.
- #18 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
85% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,392 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 77.1 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 34.4% ★, Voxel 12.1% ★, Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.2%, Sandbox 9%
Why You'll Like It: This space-sim offers extensive building and survival mechanics, allowing players to construct everything from small bases to massive capital ships.
- #19 Nova Lands
84% matchVery Positive89% of 3,518 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 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 28.5% ★, Automation 20.1%, Sandbox 9.5%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a charming blend of exploration, base-building, and automation that is accessible yet deep.
- #20 TerraTech
84% matchVery Positive91% of 24,920 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 32.5 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 38.7% ★, Building 15.5%, Sandbox 13.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 7%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the building and combat aspects of the genre, allowing players to construct custom vehicles from modular parts.
- #21 Rising World
83% matchVery Positive86% of 5,974 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.2 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 32.7% ★, Voxel 12.1% ★, Crafting 9.4%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a highly immersive voxel building experience with a focus on survival and realistic construction.
- #22 Autonauts
82% matchVery Positive90% of 4,956 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 40.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the automation aspect of the genre, allowing players to program robots to perform repetitive tasks to build a thriving colony.
- #23 Castle Story
82% matchMixed65% of 10,635 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 30.4% ★, Building 17.3%, Sandbox 14.6%, Survival 7.1%, Crafting 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused sandbox game where players manage minions to build fortifications and defend against enemy attacks.
- #24 shapez
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,812 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 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 33.9%, Crafting 14.8%, Sandbox 14.6%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist but highly addictive automation game that strips away survival elements to focus purely on the logic of factory design.
- #25 Voidtrain
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,810 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 46.3% ★, Crafting 9.7%, Base Building 8.1%, Building 7.6%, Survival 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique take on automation and base-building as you construct and upgrade a train while traversing a surreal interdimensional void.
- #26 Creativerse
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Voxel 13.6% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based sandbox game that emphasizes creative building and exploration in a vibrant, alien-like environment.
- #27 Sandustry
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,449 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Automation 16.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 8.8%
- #28 Eco
79% matchVery Positive81% of 14,049 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.7 hrsMean: 90.6 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 40.5% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 11.2%, Survival 8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines resource management and building with a unique focus on environmental impact and collaborative survival.
- #29 Minicology
78% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Isaac DennerPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 29.7% ★, Automation 16.9%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A space-based survival game that tasks players with managing ecosystems and building automated systems on tiny, procedurally generated planets.
- #30 Craterbound
78% matchMixed53% 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 43.6% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 9.3%, Sandbox 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a focused survival and exploration experience within a crater-filled alien landscape.
- #31 TerraTech Worlds
76% matchMixed63% of 2,287 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 22.0 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 30.4% ★, Automation 11.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 8.5%
- #32 Star Crafter
75% matchMixed70% of 106 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 29.1% ★, Automation 13.6%, Crafting 9.4%, Voxel 8.4% ★, Base Building 7.5%
- #33 Planet Explorers
77% matchMixed62% of 6,818 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 44% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 6.8%, Open World 6.8%
- #34 Force of Nature
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,209 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 44% ★, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 9%, Survival 8.8%, Building 7.7%
- #35 World Crafter TD
75% matchMixed47% of 670 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 32%
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 35% ★, Automation 17.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 8.6%, Survival 6.3%
- #36 Crashlands
74% matchVery Positive90% of 6,745 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 9.7%, Building 8.6%, Base Building 8.1%
- #37 Skyformer
71% matchVery Positive83% of 87 reviews2026
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! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Automation 19.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Base Building 8.6%, Building 6.9%
- #38 World Crafter TD: Prologue
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 103 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 36.8% ★, Automation 18.5%, Crafting 11.8%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 6.4%
- #39 Wrongworld
72% matchVery Positive94% of 551 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 53.3% ★, Sandbox 8.7%, Survival 8.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Building 7.6%
- #40 Fragmented
74% 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 53.5% ★, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 8.2%, Sandbox 7.3%, Building 6.4%
- #41 Forager
70% matchVery Positive89% of 43,959 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 47.3% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 9.4%, Sandbox 7.8%, Base Building 5.9%
- #42 Life is Feudal: Your Own
72% matchMixed66% of 12,061 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 57.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.3% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 9.6%, Survival 8.5%
- #43 StarRupture
68% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 32.2% ★, Automation 18.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Base Building 8.7%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #44 Blockscape
73% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The ultimate block building game. Start with nothing and build an empire. Smooth voxel worlds, settlers, crafting, vehicles, and Steam multiplayer. Survival or Just Build — every item in your inventory is also a building block.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.9% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 7.9%, Building 7.1%, Survival 5.3%
- #45 Cubic Odyssey
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,720 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 45.9% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 12.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 4%
- #46 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
67% matchVery Positive91% of 7,602 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 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 34.7% ★, Automation 15.5%, Crafting 9%, Base Building 8.3%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #47 Prospector
69% matchMixed70% 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 24.1% ★, Automation 17.3%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9.4%
- #48 Signs of Life
71% 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 47.5% ★, Sandbox 13%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 7.8%, Building 7.2%
- #49 Edge of Space
73% 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 52.3% ★, Sandbox 15%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 5.2%, Building 4.7%
- #50 Solace Crafting
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 898 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 37.2% ★, Crafting 12%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 9.2%, Base Building 8.7%
- #51 Necesse
64% matchVery Positive93% of 28,807 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.3 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 43.9% ★, Automation 9.6%, Sandbox 8.5%, Crafting 8.2%, Building 6.6%
- #52 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,709 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 36.9% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 9.4%, Automation 9.3%, Survival 8.8%
- #53 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 47.4% ★, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 9.9%, Base Building 9.1%, Crafting 8.9%
- #54 Medieval Engineers
70% matchMixed52% of 7,324 reviews2015
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!
Why similar: Building 24.8%, Sandbox 21.6%, Crafting 14.1%, Open World 10.2%, Survival 8.9%
- #55 Boundless
68% matchMixed70% of 2,774 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 39.5% ★, Voxel 12.3% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 8.8%
- #56 XenoHaven
65% 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 28.8% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Automation 10.3%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 8.8%
- #57 Novus Inceptio
69% matchMixed52% of 1,304 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.3% ★, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 9.1%, Survival 8.2%
- #58 Evospace
67% matchVery Positive83% of 392 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%, Crafting 15.7%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 11.9%, Base Building 11.7%
