
HEAT is a sandbox survival game, with tower defense elements, modular tools, and really cool building system. Focused on player interactions with the world.
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HEAT is a sandbox survival game, with tower defense elements, modular tools, and really cool building system. Focused on player interactions with the world.

Vein-X
A crash. Alone in a lab while war rages around you. Explore dark alien dungeons, mine rare minerals, build machines to survive and fight to uncover the truth buried deep below.

G.E.T.
G.E.T. (Gather, Explore, Technologize) is a 3D first person open world adventure-survival game. On your journey you will progress through different ages, beginning from the stone age and finishing in the far future.
A crash. Alone in a lab while war rages around you. Explore dark alien dungeons, mine rare minerals, build machines to survive and fight to uncover the truth buried deep below.
Why similar: Automation 20.3%, Sandbox 15.5%, Resource Management 13.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Physics 11.5%
G.E.T. (Gather, Explore, Technologize) is a 3D first person open world adventure-survival game. On your journey you will progress through different ages, beginning from the stone age and finishing in the far future.
Why similar: Inventory Management 17.7%, Base Building 14.9%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Open World 12.1%, Resource Management 11.8%
A pixel-art RPG in a 3D open world where you can build towns, manage people, explore a infinitely generated world, and battle monsters and foes alike.
Why similar: Automation 18.4%, Inventory Management 16.1%, Open World 10.6%, Procedural Generation 10.3%, Resource Management 10.3%
Don’t Starve returns with an all-new uncompromising survival experience. Band together with friends to craft, farm, build and explore a world filled with strange creatures, lurking shadows, and dynamic environmental dangers.
Why similar: Perma Death 21.7%, Nonlinear 14.6%, Sandbox 13.7%, Base Building 12.2%, PvE 11.1%
💼 You took this job to save your family. Now you have to survive it. 🔍 Scan students. 🚫 Confiscate contraband. 🏗️ Build your empire. 🌙 Patrol the night. But when the sun goes down, the school reveals what it's been hiding—🧟 zombies, 🔥 fire, and 👻 a ghost that never left.
Why similar: Nonlinear 14.2%, Inventory Management 13.1%, Procedural Generation 11.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Physics 9.2%
Mine resources. Pay your debt. Uncover the truth. You're Asset 734 an in debt miner on an anomalous planet hiding ancient alien ruins and a terrible secret. Dig deeper through procedural generated terrain, fight underground horrors, unlock powerful weapons, and discover what the corporations buried.
Why similar: Inventory Management 14.7%, Procedural Generation 12.6%, Base Building 10.7%, Physics 9.7%, Open World 9.3%
Survive 99 days in a cursed forest covered in toxic mist. Keep your campfire alive, craft essential gear, and expand your safe zone before the mist takes over.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 17.1%, Base Building 15.9%, Open World 13.6%, Inventory Management 11.5%, Action-Adventure 11.4%
A peaceful 2D sandbox. Explore biomes, build bases above and below water, manage oxygen, pressure, seasons and energy. Automate conveyors, fluid systems, sensors and advanced machines. Grow crops, tame animals, create a living world driven by logic, systems and creativity, all without any fighting.
Why similar: Automation 25.1%, Sandbox 18.1%, Resource Management 16.4%, Inventory Management 11.1%, Procedural Generation 10.2%
Explore a vast underground world in a 2D side-scrolling survival adventure. Find survivors, build a team, and battle powerful bosses in the ruins of a forgotten civilization. Uncover the truth behind the Sovereign's Enigma.
Why similar: Nonlinear 16.4%, Inventory Management 14.8%, Resource Management 11.7%, Base Building 11.1%, Action-Adventure 10.3%
LIGHT THE BEACON is a sci-fi action-adventure survival game with rogue-like elements where players pilot customizable ships, manage resources, and battle AI threats in a procedurally generated universe. Face permadeath, explore hostile space, and ignite ancient beacons to save humanity.
Why similar: Perma Death 20.9%, Sandbox 13.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Procedural Generation 12.1%, PvE 11%
Collect resources, build machines, and automate everything. Explore magical lands, face hostile creatures, and turn their loot into part of your factory system. This is your Manaftory — a magical factory powered by mana.
Why similar: Automation 35.4%, Resource Management 20.7%, Base Building 18.1%, Sandbox 12.7%, Action-Adventure 11.3%
Bagnomor is a bleak survival-horror set in a remote corner of Eastern Europe, where ancient entities were awakened by human folly. There is no escape, and the forest wall is closing in.
Why similar: Survival Horror 16.2%, Nonlinear 12.3%, Procedural Generation 12.2%, Inventory Management 11.7%, Resource Management 10.2%
Build production lines to extract resources, craft parts, and assemble towers. Complete orders, earn rewards, unlock new machines, and grow your factory.
Why similar: Automation 28%, Base Building 19.9%, Resource Management 17.4%, Procedural Generation 14.3%, Open World 9.7%
Automate your factory in space. Build logistic railguns to feed the production lines of your ever growing machines. Gravity disrupts your trajectories - master it. Connect your machines over the vast void. Find resource rich moons and asteroid streams to harvest and mine, but beware of the Locals.
Why similar: Automation 21.6%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 14.5%, Inventory Management 13.8%, Physics 9.8%
Farewell Jack is a fully voiced, story driven, roguelite tactics game with simple rules and a high skill cap, quick-time combat system. Many battles are designed as endless holdout missions that combine tower defense, with army management, base building, recruitment, and asset acquisition.
Why similar: Inventory Management 16.5%, Perma Death 15.7%, Nonlinear 15.1%, Base Building 14.4%, Tactical 12.6%
Chop down trees, gather fuel & scrap, search abandoned structures, and build a base camp strong enough to withstand what comes after the sun sets. The wilderness grows more dangerous with every passing night, and something is always watching from beyond the firelight. Survive all 99 Nights.
Why similar: Sandbox 19%, Base Building 17.8%, Survival Horror 15.7%, Open World 12.9%, Procedural Generation 9.4%
Hostile Mars is a Factory-Building game focused on Combat! Explore an open world and discover new tech, unlocking powerful weapons and structures. Create efficient supply chains using delivery bots. Salvage destroyed enemies for resources. Design your base to withstand increasing waves of enemies!
Why similar: Automation 21%, Base Building 16.7%, Resource Management 14.6%, Sandbox 12.6%, Open World 12%
SOS is a 4-player online co-op horror-action game. Operate your ship, explore dangerous islands, loot valuable treasures, and escape deadly enemies to repay your soul’s debt. Strategy and teamwork are key to survival!
Why similar: Inventory Management 28.6%, Resource Management 20.3%, Perma Death 11.7%, Physics 9.4%, Survival Horror 8.9%
A deep biological network automation game where you grow a living mycelial network across an alien planet. Consume the local flora and creatures, build biological production chains, and evolve from a tiny spore into a cosmic entity that consumes worlds.
Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 17.2%, Sandbox 13.1%, PvE 12.7%
Dig and explore the depth of the earth. Mine and harvest miscellaneous resources. Craft better tools and weapons and expand your base ! Fight against local mobs. Unlock electricity to lighten the darker depths. Automate harvesting to reign on the underground world !
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Procedural Generation 19%, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 10.2%
A free co-op automation game where you and up to 3 friends grow a living mycelial network across an alien planet. Consume local creatures, build biological production chains, and evolve from a tiny spore into a cosmic entity together.
Why similar: Automation 29%, Base Building 19.7%, Resource Management 17.7%, PvE 11.8%, Sandbox 9.9%
A first-person survival sandbox game where you explore a post-apocalyptic world, scavenge resources, craft production chains, and keep your train base running against all odds.
Why similar: Automation 23.1%, Base Building 19.5%, Inventory Management 17%, Resource Management 13.9%, Action 11.1%
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 29.2%, Base Building 19%, Resource Management 18%, Sandbox 15.3%, Open World 8.8%
Build and grow your settlement across a procedural archipelago. Gather resources, recruit settlers, automate production and transport, explore new islands and dungeons, find better gear, and prepare your base for the threats ahead.
Why similar: Automation 16.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Inventory Management 13.9%, Resource Management 13.2%, Procedural Generation 12.4%
Explore procedurally generated dead spaceships, complete dangerous contracts, collect loot, control doors and extraction, while an alien monster hunts and grows stronger.
Why similar: Perma Death 14.8%, Inventory Management 13.1%, Shooter 12.2%, Resource Management 11.5%, Procedural Generation 11.1%
Stellar Descending is a turn-based factory builder spanning multiple layers. As a scout, design vertical production lines using conveyors, assemblers, and inserters. Use strategy and automation to conquer the planet and uncover its secrets.
Why similar: Automation 30.7%, Base Building 20.7%, Resource Management 18.8%, Procedural Generation 12.5%, Sandbox 8.5%
Find yourself stranded on a mysterious, uncharted island after a devastating plane crash. With no signs of rescue, your only goal is to survive
Why similar: Base Building 19%, Inventory Management 19%, Survival Horror 15.4%, Resource Management 14.1%, Open World 9.7%
A sentient computer universe. Harness Bits, battle system defenses, explore, and survive in this electrifying computer realm.
Why similar: Nonlinear 20.7%, Swordplay 16.3%, Sandbox 14.1%, PvE 11.7%, Open World 11.5%
A lonely trek to a desolate planet unearths a strange anomaly, seemingly causing denizens of a nearby station to become horrifying, violent mutants. Run, think, scavenge and improvise. Only the smartest will survive.
Why similar: Inventory Management 24.1%, Nonlinear 20.6%, Survival Horror 17.2%, Resource Management 16.4%, Combat 7.4%
Mine asteroids and refine resources to build your own spaceship, designing every detail as you balance mass, thrust, and torque. Alone or with a crew, expand your vessel into a self-sustaining mobile factory through automation as you survive the harshness of space.
Why similar: Automation 21.9%, Sandbox 18.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Open World 14.3%, PvE 10.5%
Pistonica is the pure steam and mechanical factory automation game, challenging your resource management skills. Explore the tropical island first-person, research tech, mine for minerals, build contraptions and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.
Why similar: Automation 30%, Base Building 20.4%, Resource Management 17.5%, Open World 14.8%, Sandbox 11.8%
Endure or Perish is an open world survival game played in the FP view. In order to survive you will need to gather resources from the land, manage your inventory, and build a base that you can retreat to when the going gets hard. Can you adapt and overcome? The choice is yours: endure or perish.
Why similar: Inventory Management 15%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 12.8%, Survival Horror 12.6%, Action-Adventure 9.8%
After a catastrophic event flooded the Earth, the remnants of humanity are left adrift on an endless ocean. With nothing but scraps of the old world floating across the waves, survivors must scavenge, build, and fight to stay alive in this vast water-covered wasteland.
Why similar: Base Building 21.4%, Resource Management 17.2%, Inventory Management 15.5%, Procedural Generation 13.8%, Open World 11.4%
Build a fractal world. Automate the automation of your automation. Put Factories in Factories in Factories.
Why similar: Automation 31.2%, Base Building 21.1%, Sandbox 12.7%, Procedural Generation 12.2%, Open World 10.8%
Build creative machines, rovers, drones or robots. Use them to gather resources, discover new machine parts, source energy, construct bases and battle enemy factions in a physics-based open world.
Why similar: Automation 21.2%, Base Building 19%, Sandbox 16.9%, Open World 14.1%, Physics 13.4%
Escape a mine overrun by zombie miners. Explore, fight, and repair vehicles to escape, before night turns survival into a nightmare. Every run is different.
Why similar: Perma Death 21.2%, Survival Horror 17%, Procedural Generation 12.4%, Inventory Management 11.2%, Action-Adventure 10.2%
Explore the deep ocean in your submarine, hunt human eating mermaids and sea creatures, destroy their hebitat for more loot. Craft gear to sell. Upgrade your sub to go deeper, but stay alert—the Deadly Badly Giant is also hunting you.
Why similar: Survival Horror 19.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Resource Management 10.6%, Physics 9.6%, PvE 9.2%
This is a single player horizontal 2D sandbox game. You can change the terrain. The game includes content on analog circuits. You can use an anvil to forge equipment. Some monsters can also change the terrain.
Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Base Building 17.9%, Open World 14.1%, Physics 13.4%, Sandbox 9.7%
Thirdperson Open World Zombie Survival.
Why similar: Perma Death 25.4%, Sandbox 16.1%, PvE 13.2%, Open World 10.9%, Action-Adventure 9.6%
In a dystopian world consumed by the VAS, become one of the Newborn: A new generation of humans immune to the plague, surviving the ravages of disease, mutants, and sinister AXIOM. Fight for hope, rise against the odds, and pave the way for society to be reborn in a unique online sandbox RPG.
Why similar: Sandbox 16.7%, Inventory Management 15.7%, Base Building 14.8%, PvE 13.9%, Open World 11.8%
Drive your mechnical ladybird across a procedural hellscape by making pipes to power machines with steam. Explore from inside the submarine-like Clomper: collecting resources, completing quests and repairing damage. Go solo or with a friend with co-op multiplayer.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 18.2%, Resource Management 16.2%, Nonlinear 16%, PvE 12.8%, Action-Adventure 9.2%
In Rusted Hills: Welcome to the Wilderness, survival is the only rule. After economic collapse and civil war, America has become a hostile wilderness. Scavenge, build, explore, and prepare. Any night could be your last.
Why similar: Perma Death 24.1%, Sandbox 15.4%, Base Building 13.4%, PvE 12.3%, Open World 10.1%
Nutsimilian is a turn-based 2D tile sandbox/simulation game with an emphasis on exploration, experimentation, and creative thinking within a procedurally generated world.
Why similar: Nonlinear 17.2%, Automation 16.9%, Sandbox 16.8%, Inventory Management 14.5%, Procedural Generation 12.8%
Deep Pockets is an incremental inventory management game where every ore you mine gets dropped into your pockets as a physics object. Dig deep, ferry minerals in your pockets, and get rich! But be sure to not take more than you can carry.
Why similar: Inventory Management 24.4%, Base Building 15.4%, Physics 14.7%, Automation 14%, Procedural Generation 13.8%
You have 24 hours to explore this land and prepare for its inevitable end. Fight a variety of enemies and bosses; discover a huge arsenal with near-endless potential for player expression and, through each attempt, learn to do it as efficiently as possible.
Why similar: Perma Death 21.9%, Nonlinear 21.6%, Open World 15%, Sandbox 14.9%, PvE 11.4%
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 34.2%, Base Building 23.6%, Resource Management 19.7%, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 7.6%
Race an exploding volcano in this high-risk extraction survival. Rescue survivors, manage scarce resources, survive fire anomalies, and carve escape routes through ash and lava. Bring them back alive, before the island buries you.
Why similar: Inventory Management 17.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 13.3%, PvE 10.6%, Open World 9.9%
Waking Nightmares is a top-down survival horror game where you're a detective, the last inhabitant of a ghost town, or at least, that's as far as you remember... Everyone is gone, and yet you can't seem to remember anyone... The case is open. Your objective: Find out what happened to everyone.
Why similar: Inventory Management 27.2%, Resource Management 22.7%, Survival Horror 21.7%, Combat 9.5%, Action-Adventure 7.9%
A shoot'em'up with spaceships and evil aliens with some RPG elements and first person activities, taking place in the Solar System.
Why similar: Base Building 16.7%, Nonlinear 14.9%, Shooter 12.6%, Action-Adventure 12.5%, Perma Death 11.6%
Factoriant is a factory builder where you construct an underground ant factory. As a queen ant, dig tunnels, carry food, and hatch worker ants to automate your production. Defend your nest from threats like birds and humans, and build a subterranean ant colony.
Why similar: Automation 30.2%, Base Building 20.5%, Resource Management 18.7%, Procedural Generation 16.8%, Sandbox 9%
A side-view tower offense game where you defeat enemy kingdoms to unlock new towers and weapons, reshape the battlefield, and fight alongside your troops to survive increasingly difficult waves. Chaotic and fast-paced. Fulfill your destiny.
Why similar: Nonlinear 18.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Procedural Generation 15.2%, Physics 12.4%, Automation 10.6%
Explore procedurally generated worlds, discover unique, randomly generated resources, create tools and machines in a free-form crafting system and progress from sticks and stones to space rockets in a sandbox loop of discovering and inventing
Why similar: Automation 22.8%, Sandbox 21%, Adventure 14%, Base Building 13.7%, Procedural Generation 10.1%
Factory automation meets megastructure. Explore an ancient space station in search of a buried star. Build automated factories and defend against a living and realigning station.
Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Base Building 19.2%, Open World 15.6%, Sandbox 14.5%, Procedural Generation 9.9%
Stranded on an alien earth-like planet after a failed mission, you’ll need to gather resources, build shelter, and fight to stay alive. Explore strange biomes, uncover hidden secrets, and decide whether to rebuild or escape before the planet claims you.
Why similar: Base Building 16.6%, Inventory Management 15.8%, Open World 14.7%, Sandbox 13.2%, Resource Management 12.5%
You're a nameless traveler, stranded in a ghost town in the Cursed West. Use your wits, elbow grease, and the iron on your hip. Build a homestead, work the land, and survive against unspeakable monsters in this unique Western horror survival game - alone or with friends!
Why similar: Survival Horror 14.7%, Inventory Management 13.3%, Open World 13.3%, PvE 13%, Base Building 12.2%
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 29.6%, Base Building 24.5%, Resource Management 15.3%, Open World 14.6%, Sandbox 12.3%
Escape the island
Why similar: Survival Horror 16.3%, Inventory Management 14.9%, Nonlinear 14.7%, Open World 13.9%, PvE 9.4%
Destroy every sentient being on a planet far, far away from Earth using automation cubes and a little magic!
Why similar: Automation 25.9%, Sandbox 15.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Procedural Generation 12%, Open World 9.5%
In this top-down game you must think creatively to speed through waves of enemies, while staying alive. You are a samurai and to restore peace to the lands of Yarbil you must defeat the Trials of Yarbil.
Why similar: Perma Death 24.4%, Swordplay 21%, Resource Management 18.5%, Tactical 12.1%, PvE 10.8%
Kardaviik is a 3D factory automation game set in a voxel asteroid belt. Your mission: harness energy, ascend the Kardashev Scale, and save Earth. Conquer the expansive procedurally generated belt by harvesting resources and extracting fuel, and build your ultimate space factory!
Why similar: Automation 34.2%, Base Building 22.8%, Resource Management 19%, Sandbox 15.5%, Open World 7.4%