- #1 Oreborn
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gurbdev
Windows · Mac
Explore, mine, and fight your way through the galaxy in this 2D space mining adventure! Unearth the relics of ancient civilizations and face the horrors that linger beneath alien worlds.
Why similar: Mining 20.8% ★, Perma Death 16.4%, Roguelite 12.2%, Procedural Generation 10.9%, Crafting 9%
- #2 Keziah's Realm
96% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: Bonny Studios
Windows
Forage, craft, fight, form clans, and expand your settlements in a dynamic, ever-changing ecosystem. Keziah’s Realm offers a unique gaming experience where you must survive in a rich, procedurally generated world, alongside intelligent NPCs who possess abilities equal to those of the player.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, Survival 14.4%, Procedural Generation 11.7%, Crafting 9%, RPG 9%
- #3 Odd Realm
95% matchVery Positive84% of 1,022 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, Mining 17.3% ★, Survival 10%, Crafting 9.4%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #4 Earth Elements
95% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: Jack G
Windows
Earth Elements. In three words: Dig, Mix, Build. Resource collecting, building and surviving game with not one but a few of game characters. Start with digging of Elements on map, mix in mixers to advance, build new features on map. RoundOnes will create Yours versions of great Monumental builds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, Mining 23.3% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Perma Death 9.7%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #5 Afterdepth
93% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Dannark Studios
Windows · Mac
Explore, build, and survive in the depths of a forgotten world. Manage oxygen, power, and resources as you uncover the secrets buried beneath the surface.
Why similar: Mining 30% ★, Roguelite 14.7%, Survival 12.3%, Procedural Generation 11.9%, Crafting 10.7%
- #6 Dungeon D14
94% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2021
Dev: EhtChaos
Windows
You control a small colony in the underground of an unknown planet. Mine resources, build a base, explore the world and technology. Supply your colonists with oxygen, food and energy so that they can carry out their tasks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, Mining 26.2% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Procedural Generation 8.8%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #7 Deepvein
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Belowglow Studio
Windows
Descend into a persistent mine, extract valuable ores and rare discoveries, manage your tools and cargo, then return to smelt, craft, complete contracts, and expand your operation in this combat-free mining game.
Why similar: Mining 33.7% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Resource Management 9.7%, Sandbox 8.3%, Procedural Generation 7.7%
- #8 PlaneWorld
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: La Maison du Nourson
Windows · Mac · Linux
A 2D pixel art survival sandbox where you mine, build, craft and explore procedurally generated worlds. Fight 5 epic bosses, farm, enchant your gear and survive. From casual to hardcore permadeath!
Why similar: Mining 14.9% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Procedural Generation 10.4%, Perma Death 9.1%
- #9 From Nothing
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Power Hobo Games
Windows
Build systems, sustain life, and transform a barren moon into a living world. In this 2D survival-crafting RPG, preparation and infrastructure matter more than reflexes... because when the winter eclipse comes, only what you’ve built will keep you alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4%, Crafting 14.4%, Survival 14.3%, Sandbox 12.4%, Exploration 6.8%
- #10 Too Far Too Late
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fly Game Studio
Windows
Embark on a Colony in Space. Build a base to ensure your colonists survive. Explore, mine resources, craft items, and thrive in a realistic atmospheric and electrical simulation. Watch out for potential dangers before it’s too late!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, Mining 17.3% ★, Perma Death 13.4%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #11 The Colony Experiment
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bilboldev
Windows
The Colony Experiment is a colony simulator where you lead a group of Joes trapped in The Scientist's experiment. Gather resources, build your colony, survive the challenges ahead, and uncover the Scientist's base to finally break free.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11.8%, Simulation 9.3%
- #12 Underroot
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silas Robinson
Windows
Mine, explore, gather resources, complete quests, upgrade your gear, and discover hidden secrets in this cozy fantasy mining adventure.
Why similar: Mining 31.6% ★, Roguelite 13.4%, Crafting 9.5%, RPG 8.1%, Procedural Generation 7.2%
- #13 Beneath a Dead City
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonroof Studios
Windows
Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38%, Survival 15.8%, Procedural Generation 12.5%, Nonlinear 10.7%, Exploration 5.7%
- #14 Unearthed
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BitWatson
Windows · Linux
Unearthed is top down mining adventure set in a procedurally generated blocky underground world. Explore endless cave systems filled with dangerous creatures and unexpected companions. Mine resources, survive the depths, and rebuild the world as you see it fit.
Why similar: Mining 33.9% ★, Sandbox 16.3%, Crafting 15.2%, Procedural Generation 15.1%, Survival 7%
- #15 Dust & Diamonds
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SAD Games Studio
Windows
Humans are extinct, and Goblins proudly stand at the top of the food chain! Take over a mine, expand your surface base, and automate logistics. Manage workers, trade, avoid cave-ins and lava, and above all – try to endure your father's constant grumbling!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, Mining 24.5% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.2%, Procedural Generation 7%
- #16 Digging Dudes
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Valiantus
Windows · Linux
Command a squad of hard-working dudes, tunnel through different biomes and layers, collect rare ores and gemstones, equip powerful pickaxes, and descend into the depths!
Why similar: Mining 40.6% ★, Colony Sim 18.1%, Roguelite 14.1%, Procedural Generation 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 4.3%
- #17 Hold the Line
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Safepanic Studio
Windows
Hold the Line is a top-down 2D roguelite survival game. Survive on a procedurally generated island, prepare by day, endure the night, forge your survival build, adapt to dynamic events, and face the final trial on Day 7.
Why similar: Perma Death 17.6%, Survival 16%, Crafting 15.1%, Roguelite 13.9%, Procedural Generation 11.2%
- #18 Duck the Miner
85% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Atlas Brightway
Windows
Your ultimate goal was to achieve the dream of living on Mars, but the journey didn't go as planned. After a rough ride that left your engine destroyed, you are now stranded on space and must mine asteroids to repair your ship to try finish the voyage.
Why similar: Mining 39.3% ★, Crafting 17.1%, Procedural Generation 12.2%, Resource Management 11.9%, Survival 6%
- #19 FarHearth
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: matchaserf
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build your last home in a desperate world. Grow your settlement from a humble hamlet to a great city-state. Manage resources. Appoint leaders. Pass laws. Shape the soul of your city. Save your people and build a glorious beacon to last the ages, or fall to ruin.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, Survival 14.8%, Perma Death 12.7%, Crafting 11.7%, Roguelite 8.7%
- #20 Breadoria
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Breadpan
Windows
Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.4%, Survival 15.9%, Crafting 15.6%, Procedural Generation 6.2%, Resource Management 5.5%
- #21 PixelFall
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Miguel Benavides
Windows
A living pixel sandbox where every grain simulates - and every world hides its Keepers. Dig to the abyss, sail past the clouds, tame a horse, farm, brew, and build. Face seven sim-bosses you defeat by reshaping the world itself, and mend the heart of your world.
Why similar: Mining 21% ★, Survival 16%, Crafting 15.8%, Sandbox 11.9%, Procedural Generation 10.9%
- #22 Survival Vacancy
84% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, Mining 16.3% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 9%
- #23 Cube Universe
84% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: Beosar
Windows
Cube Universe is a first-person voxel RPG. Visit many different, procedurally generated planets. Team up with your friends to fight against fierce enemies in dungeons. Do quests to save the world from the forces of evil - or throw it into chaos.
Why similar: Mining 19.8% ★, RPG 14.5%, Crafting 14.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Procedural Generation 10.8%
- #24 Hiveheart
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PisiPisi Games
Windows
Your tiny colony's adventure begins! Explore the depths of nature in this pink colony, gather resources, and build your nest step by step. Just don't let the little ones go starve! Command your soldiers and workers to keep your queen safe, and turn your colony into a thriving nest.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.7%, Mining 16.9% ★, Crafting 10.2%, Simulation 8%, Exploration 7%
- #25 Colony of the Forsaken
81% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Tazdingol
Windows · Mac
Colony of the Forsaken is a survival colony sim where you control multiple villagers, build up your settlement during the day, and defend it from enemy waves at night. The focus is on managing villagers, surviving losses, exploring for progress, and shaping each villager through skills and spells.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44%, Survival 17.6%, RPG 8.3%, Crafting 7%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%
- #26 Worlds Explorers
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pioneers Games
Windows · Linux
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, Survival 16.6%, Sandbox 11.1%, Procedural Generation 9.3%, Crafting 8.3%
- #27 Children of Mare
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Starfall Games
Windows
Venture into the host's mind and extracts all its fears to feed Mare. Build, explore, mine and conquer ruins to please the goddess of nightmares.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1%, Survival 15.1%, Roguelite 12.8%, Mining 11.8% ★, Procedural Generation 8.8%
- #28 Never Secure
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Blank Page Games
Windows
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.7%, Survival 19.3%, Resource Management 11.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Simulation 7%
- #29 SuperColony
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Antic Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
A real-time ant colony simulation game set in the hostile world of insects. Fight for resources, build underground networks, learn from the environment, harvest DNA from defeated foes, evolve new ant abilities, and guide hundreds of ants toward building a global SuperColony. Add to Wishlist now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1%, Survival 15.8%, Roguelite 13%, Sandbox 12.1%, Procedural Generation 8.6%
- #30 Legacy Miner
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mastic Games
Windows · Mac
A 2D mining game about digging your way off a dead planet. Drill deep for rare ores, dodge lava and gas pockets, upgrade your rig, then pool your haul with friends to smelt bars, craft parts, and build the rocket that gets your crew home. Solo or 1–16 players.
Why similar: Mining 41.5% ★, Crafting 23.4%, Exploration 10.9%, Resource Management 9.2%, Simulation 9.2%
- #31 Tribe Quest
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nikodem Lokatelj
Windows
Fight, craft, and survive. Swap between characters in your party as you navigate procedurally generated levels and complete quests. Rebuild your home from the rubble and hunt the warlord who destroyed it.
Why similar: Perma Death 17%, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 13.7%, Mining 13.3% ★, Roguelite 11.5%
- #32 Malignus
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mossbomb
Windows
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43%, Mining 13.7% ★, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 9.8%, Simulation 7.6%
- #33 Dwarf Things
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Makes Games
Windows
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.3%, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 9.6%, Simulation 7.2%
- #34 TFM: The First Men
77% matchMixed59% of 413 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.4%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Procedural Generation 8.5%, Crafting 7.6%
- #35 Minable & Create / ミナクリ
77% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2022
Dev: technopixel
Windows
World-building RPG "Minable & Create" is an easy-to-understand 2D screen sandbox game. Basically anything can be dug and you can create your own base with the acquired materials. Find and collect the people who were attacked by the Demon King and scattered, and save the world.
Why similar: Crafting 20.2%, Sandbox 17.9%, Survival 17.3%, Procedural Generation 12.4%, Roguelite 11.6%
- #36 SpaceFabrica
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: StefanowskyPub: StefCorp
Windows
SpaceFabrica is a space game focused on exploration, building, and automation. Discover planets and asteroids, gather resources, build your own bases, and create increasingly large and advanced factories. Explore the vastness of space and expand your industrial empire.
Why similar: Mining 28.3% ★, Sandbox 16.6%, Nonlinear 15.8%, Simulation 10.4%, Exploration 7.9%
- #37 Rock Digger
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rockin' Games
Windows
Start as a humble rock and evolve into a rock-digging rock star! Dig for resources, solve ancient puzzles, and uncover hidden secrets after crash-landing on an alien planet. Unearth countless upgrades and gain powerful abilities. Explore mysterious new worlds. Reach the core. Ascend to Rock God!
Why similar: Mining 35.5% ★, Procedural Generation 12.2%, Survival 11.3%, Resource Management 11%, Exploration 7%
- #38 Settletopia
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6%, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 11.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Procedural Generation 9.4%
- #39 Drilling
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HONGS
Windows · Mac
"DRILLING" is a relaxing game focusing on the pure joy of digging and moving forward. You play as "Mr. Drill," who has awakened deep underground, and begin an expedition toward the surface. Mine 9 kind of ores found across various layers, and use the resources you gather to upgrade your modules.
Why similar: Mining 49% ★, Crafting 22.4%, Exploration 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%, Simulation 5.5%
- #40 Hammerting
74% matchMixed57% of 2,605 reviews2021
Dev: Warpzone StudiosPub: Team17 Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, Mining 23.7% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Resource Management 7.7%, Procedural Generation 7.5%
- #41 Gnomoria
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,539 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.5%, Sandbox 15.6%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 12.2%, Simulation 5.2%
- #42 The Five Monks
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Mad GoblinsPub: team BLACKCODE Inc.
Windows
A settlement simulation about five monks who survived a burning monastery and set out across the continent. Generate a world, gather scattered companions, and raise a new sanctuary from the ashes. Rebuild a broken world with the hands of those who survived.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.4%, Survival 17%, Simulation 6.3%, Crafting 6%, Exploration 4.8%
- #43 Vilset
73% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.1%, Survival 16.2%, Crafting 15.6%, Sandbox 9.8%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #44 StoneEra
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Arrock Games
Windows · Mac
Build, manage, and expand a medieval voxel colony in a procedurally generated world. Gather resources, assign AI-controlled villagers, reshape the terrain, survive changing seasons, and grow your settlement block by block.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.8%, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 10.4%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #45 BLASTRONAUT
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 175 reviews2022
Dev: Perfoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
BLASTRONAUT is a mining game in a procedural alien world. Explore, extract and profit.
Why similar: Mining 30.3% ★, Sandbox 12.4%, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Procedural Generation 8.1%
- #46 Mad Miner
71% matchPositive91% of 33 reviews2023
Dev: Mercimek Games
Windows · Linux
Mad Miner is a mining game where you try to survive in a new order where world life is trapped underground.
Why similar: Mining 29.8% ★, Survival 14.5%, Nonlinear 13.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Roguelite 11.6%
- #47 Bee-z Factory
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Felipe Tonkiel
Windows
Bee-z Factory is a farm-colony simulation game, where you provide guidance to a species of highly temperamental plant-like space colonizers called sproutlings, that are now stranded on a foreign planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Perma Death 22.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Exploration 7.2%
- #48 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
72% matchMixed69% of 371 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.3%, Survival 19.2%, Crafting 13.2%, Resource Management 9.8%, Simulation 5%
- #49 Gateworlds
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hydrarch
Windows · Mac
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, Survival 15.2%, Procedural Generation 12.6%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 8.5%
- #50 Rock the Islands
68% matchVery Positive90% of 337 reviews2024
Dev: HYPE GAME LLC
Windows
Team up with friends and dive into adventure! Rescue dwellers, let them work for you so they farm resources and protect you from enemies. Upgrade your equipment, explore new lands, complete quests and fight evil with glory!
Why similar: Mining 29.6% ★, Colony Sim 27.9%, Crafting 14.6%, Sandbox 11.1%, Survival 10.7%
- #51 Drown World
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Meat Lab
Windows
Drown World combines grid-based mining with a pixel-perfect elemental simulation. Dig for resources, upgrade equipment at your airship, and carve your way through a volatile underground world in search of long-lost dwarven relics as waves of rain flood the tunnels you leave behind.
Why similar: Mining 40.3% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Procedural Generation 15.3%, Survival 8.2%, Resource Management 6.8%
- #52 Forsaken: Year One
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kymera Games
Windows
Rebuild society as you see fit in this survival community management game. Centered around survivors, their needs and their relationships, you will have to make hard choices to survive and rebuild after the apocalypse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.7%, Survival 15.5%, Crafting 12%, Procedural Generation 12%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #53 SeaColony
66% matchMixed65% of 82 reviews2026
Dev: Emindev
Windows
SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.7%, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 14.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #54 Impurity
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Incurso Studios
Windows
Build and lead a settlement in a ruthless dark fantasy world. Command companions, explore shifting open world lands, and navigate rival settlements - trading, allying, or waging war. Walk the path of light or corruption as you endure relentless seasons and ancient horrors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.5%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 12.9%, Survival 10.4%, Procedural Generation 9.9%
- #55 DiDiDiG
65% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: ISIT Studio
Windows · Linux
Mine ore on the Moon, send it back to Earth to earn money, and buy Skill Cores to upgrade your abilities. Use a variety of helpful equipment on your expedition — and yes, there’s a dog! Uncover the secrets hidden beneath the lunar surface.
Why similar: Mining 36.4% ★, Survival 16%, Sandbox 12.6%, Resource Management 11.5%, Procedural Generation 8.1%
- #56 Paleon
67% matchVery Positive81% of 424 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 53.9%, Survival 20.2%, Sandbox 10.5%, Simulation 6.9%, Pixel Graphics 4.7%
- #57 Starbound Settlers
66% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Bitwright Games
Windows
A space colony survival sim. Build a station room by room, lay the wires, pipes and ducts that carry power, water and air, and keep a crew fed, rested and sane. Build it how you like and keep it running.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.2%, Crafting 13.3%, Simulation 9.9%, Survival 9.4%, Procedural Generation 6.6%
- #58 Return to Lumia
64% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: hwangso.world
Windows
Mine, craft, and explore deeper underground. Forge powerful gear, conquer 10 dungeons, and reclaim Lumia from the darkness in this 2D mining sandbox RPG.
Why similar: Mining 21.8% ★, Crafting 19.2%, Sandbox 15.8%, Survival 11.5%, RPG 8.2%
- #59 Echo of the Wilds
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 198 reviews2014
Dev: caiysPub: caiysware
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Echo of the Wilds is a puzzly narrativy adventure, featuring randomised wilderness survival. Explore and survive this mysterious tale of wilds. Gather resources to build gear and sustain yourself, learning new skills, lore and the intertwining interactions between the various areas, seasons, and weather.
Why similar: Survival 20.7%, Crafting 20.1%, Roguelite 18.3%, Sandbox 14.5%, Exploration 7.1%