- #1 The Planet Crafter
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 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 25.8% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 8.5%, Space 8.2%
- #2 Astrometica
96% matchVery Positive82% of 3,211 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.9% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 11.9%
- #3 Eden Crafters
96% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 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 28.8% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 8.5%, Open World 8.3%
- #4 Beyond Contact
95% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,147 reviews2023
Dev: Playcorp StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A fiercely formidable sci-fi survival game, set on a hostile alien world that wants you dead! Alone, or with a crew, do you have what it takes to survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.2% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 12%, Space 7.3%
- #5 AETHUS
94% matchVery Positive95% of 2,081 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.4 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 21.1% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #6 Breathedge
94% matchVery Positive81% of 18,514 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Space 11.2%, Survival 9.3%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #7 Above Snakes
93% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,004 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Piece by piece, create your own world in this relaxing Wild West-inspired worldbuilder. Craft, farm, hunt, build your base, and explore.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 10%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #8 Cubic Odyssey
91% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,754 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 38.1% ★, Base Building 18.3%, Sandbox 11.9%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Open World 4.6%
- #9 The Last Caretaker
91% matchVery Positive86% of 13,935 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 37.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Base Building 16%, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 10.7%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #10 Craterbound
92% 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 26.1% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Space 9.3%, Survival 8.8%
- #11 Blossom: The Seed of Life
90% matchVery Positive88% of 1,126 reviews2026
Dev: Pebbledust GamesPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 8.7%, Open World 8%
- #12 ASTRONEER
89% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 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 29.4% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Space 11%, Open World 10.1%, Survival 10.1%
- #13 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,722 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 28.2% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 8.9%
- #14 Forever Skies
88% matchMostly Positive78% of 9,059 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.3% ★, Science 14.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 8.6%
- #15 Breathedge 2
87% matchVery Positive87% of 1,680 reviews2026
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Survive on the edge of space! Craft and upgrade tools, scavenge resources, and save a galaxy gone completely off the rails. Can Ordinary Man save the galaxy with the help of the immortal Chicken and some duct tape?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Survival 11.4%, Space 10.6%, Sandbox 8.5%, Immersive Sim 7.9%
- #16 Outbound
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,188 reviews2026
Dev: Square Glade Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Explore a colorful world and build your own cozy home on wheels. Craft workstations, and source energy from the sun, wind, or water. Upgrade and customize your vehicle, grow crops, and live sustainably off-grid with up to 4 players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Crafting 14%, Open World 11.5%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #17 The Alters
86% matchVery Positive90% of 19,916 reviews2025
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Experience an award-winning, story-driven sci-fi survival game. Help Jan Dolski, the survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoil with his unconventional crew.
Why similar: Base Building 20.9%, Science 16.4%, Survival 15.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Sci-fi 9.4%
- #18 Island Beekeeper
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 224 reviews2026
Dev: Akuseru Studio
Windows
Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #19 Prospector
85% 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 20% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Open World 9%
- #20 Occupy Mars: The Game
84% matchMixed70% of 3,170 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11%, Survival 9.1%, Open World 8.5%
- #21 XenoHaven
83% matchVery Positive82% of 73 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 24.2% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Open World 10.7%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 10.1%
- #22 Subnautica
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 380,795 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.5% ★, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 10.1%
- #23 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
81% matchVery Positive91% of 7,668 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 32.2% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 9.2%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #24 Astro Colony
80% matchVery Positive81% of 2,730 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Base Building 26.1%, Space 17.2%, Resource Management 12.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #25 MewnBase
79% matchVery Positive93% of 1,456 reviews2023
Dev: Cairn4
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MewnBase is a space-cat survival and base-building game. Scavenge around a barren planet for items to keep you fed. Explore and collect resources. Craft items and grow your base to help you survive.
Why similar: Base Building 20.7%, Crafting 16.2%, Space 12.7%, Sandbox 12.3%, Survival 11.9%
- #26 Gaia
82% matchMixed58% of 93 reviews2020
Dev: Eternal Stardust Studios
Windows
A sci-fi base building survival game, featuring raids, agriculture, intelligent AI, natural disasters and more.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 9.9%, Open World 9.2%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #27 Under A New Sun
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 406 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.6% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 10.7%
- #28 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
77% matchVery Positive84% of 4,696 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Crafting 14.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 11.1%
- #29 Above Snakes: Prologue
78% matchVery Positive90% of 1,876 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 53%
In the prologue of Above Snakes, you awake in a destroyed settlement and help the survivors rebuild it. After that, expand the world with world pieces, craft, farm, hunt, build a base, and fight to find out more about what happened.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Female Protagonist 7.4%, Open World 7.4%
- #30 Crashlands
78% matchVery Positive90% of 6,773 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 29.4% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9.6%, Open World 9.5%
- #31 Subnautica: Below Zero
76% matchVery Positive90% of 108,517 reviews2021
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.5 hrsMean: 30.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 8.3%
- #32 Distant Bloom
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 274 reviews2024
Dev: Ember TrailPub: Kinda Brave
Windows
From a world in ruins to a world in bloom. This serene management game lets you explore an alien planet where things have gone amiss. Harness the power of plants to restore the environment and build a flourishing community with your crewmates.
Why similar: Crafting 26.2%, Resource Management 17%, Exploration 11.5%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Stylized 9.2%
- #33 ASTROBOTANICA
75% matchMixed66% of 102 reviews2026
Dev: Space Goblin Studio
Windows
Science-driven exploration adventure on prehistoric Earth with a relaxing vibe. Farming, crafting, puzzle-solving, and exploration on Prehistoric Earth, where you arrive as an alien botanist who is very good at plant research, but... can't breathe oxygen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Science 22.5%, Base Building 9.2%, Survival 7.4%, Crafting 7.4%
- #34 Star Crafter
74% matchMostly Positive70% of 110 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 27.4% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Space 9.4%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #35 Space Trash Scavenger
73% matchVery Positive83% of 528 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 29.2% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Space 10%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 9.3%
- #36 My Time at Sandrock
72% matchVery Positive88% of 29,103 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 39.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
Why similar: Crafting 32.1%, Sandbox 25.8%, Open World 22.9%, Female Protagonist 10.1%, Casual 3.8%
- #37 Lost Nova
74% matchVery Positive92% of 428 reviews2022
Dev: Jon NielsenPub: HopFrog
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Your spaceship crashed on an alien planet. Explore, salvage, craft, trade, manage and upgrade your way back home!
Why similar: Crafting 16.1%, Open World 15.2%, Space 13%, Female Protagonist 12.8%, Resource Management 11.1%
- #38 Satisfactory
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 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: Base Building 23.1%, Open World Survival Craft 16.7% ★, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 12.3%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #39 Outpost Zero
77% matchMixed48% of 853 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 9.4%
- #40 Grounded
71% matchVery Positive90% of 95,977 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 41.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Survival 17.3%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 8.5%
- #41 Retreat To Enen
75% matchMixed61% of 403 reviews2022
Dev: Head WestPub: indie.io
Windows
Base building simulator 1500 years in the future. Journey to the Island of Enen to forage, craft, build, hunt, meditate, and explore across three vast biomes. Discover secrets and create the retreat of your dreams. With over 160 unique items to gather, craft, and build, every home will be unique.
Why similar: Base Building 17.2%, Survival 13.1%, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 11.3%
- #42 No Place Like Home
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 4,116 reviews2022
Dev: Chicken LauncherPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Humanity Trashed the Earth and left for Mars. Only few remained. EXPLORE the world. Clean the environment, CRAFT with recycled resources. Domesticate animals. Rebuild your village. Restore environment and run your own post-apo FARM as there is No Place Like Home!
Why similar: Base Building 26.6%, Crafting 23.5%, Immersive Sim 16.2%, Female Protagonist 13.2%, Open World 11.2%
- #43 Creatures of Ava
72% matchVery Positive87% of 564 reviews2024
Dev: Inverge StudiosPub: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Let your empathy guide you as you play an exciting action-adventure, creature-saver game. Understand and tame the creatures of Ava and let them lead you through a variety of ecosystems – all in the hopes of saving the planet from a life-consuming infection.
Why similar: Creature Collector 26.4%, Crafting 16%, Space 13.3%, Female Protagonist 10.2%, Sci-fi 10%
- #44 Stranded: Alien Dawn
71% matchVery Positive83% of 11,546 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Base Building 35.7%, Survival 24.8%, Crafting 19.9%, Resource Management 9.3%, Sci-fi 5.8%
- #45 Starsand
73% matchMixed66% of 1,268 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.6%, Open World 9.3%
- #46 Lightyear Frontier
70% matchVery Positive84% of 4,735 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.5% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 11.4%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #47 Aloft
70% matchVery Positive83% of 3,782 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Crafting 15.9%, Survival 13.2%, Sandbox 9.6%, Open World 9.6%
- #48 Last Breath
69% matchVery Positive84% of 80 reviews2026
Dev: Mx
Windows
Last Breath is a solo/cooperative terraforming survival game. Dig through terrain, build powerful machines, and restore life to a dead planet. Work together to survive, automate, and reshape the world from the ground up, literally.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 12.4%, Science 10.8%, Crafting 9.7%
- #49 Solace Crafting
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 899 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 33.1% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 10.5%
- #50 Nova Lands
68% matchVery Positive89% of 3,544 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 27.7% ★, Base Building 16%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 10.5%, Survival 9.2%
- #51 Starbound
69% matchVery Positive90% of 123,321 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.5 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 40.6% ★, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Space 9.2%, Survival 8.8%
- #52 Techtonica
68% matchMixed65% of 3,273 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.4 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: Base Building 22.1%, Immersive Sim 15.5%, Crafting 15%, Sandbox 12.5%, Resource Management 11.8%
- #53 waxweaver
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 615 reviews2025
Dev: kaiakairos
Windows
A short sandbox rpg game that takes place on a square planet. Explore the world, gather resources, build a home and become stronger.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.3%, Crafting 16%, Open World 15.7%, Space 14.7%, Exploration 10.5%
- #54 Solarpunk™
65% matchVery Positive81% of 4,581 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Open World 10%
- #55 StarRupture
65% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 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 27.2% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.4%, Open World 9%
- #56 Farworld Pioneers
69% matchMostly Negative37% of 703 reviews2023
Dev: IgloosoftPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Space 9.9%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #57 Lilith Odyssey
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 65 reviews2022
Dev: Chaystar Unlimited LLC
Windows
In the wake of the Nacho Wars, your alien family embarks on a galactic journey to Lilith -- a faraway planet of new hope. Discover the history of the Mugalo galaxy. Relax to in-game radio. Grow your fishing, farming and spacefaring skills in a casual adventure across a cosmos of 1000+ unique worlds.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 12.9%, Open World 12.3%, Immersive Sim 11.7%
- #58 Space Haven
62% matchVery Positive86% of 11,153 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Base Building 19.3%, Space 13.9%, Survival 13%, Sandbox 12.3%, Open World 10.8%