- #1 The Planet Crafter
97% 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 26.6% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 11.9%, Open World 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the core loop of transforming a desolate, post-apocalyptic environment into a thriving home through survival and base-building mechanics.
- #2 Havendock
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,948 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Agriculture 19.8% ★, Farming Sim 16%, Life Sim 10%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the rooftop survival concept by having you build and automate a settlement on the ocean.
- #3 Raft
96% matchVery Positive93% of 377,470 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Building 10%, Open World 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Like we Am Future, it focuses on building a base in a flooded world while managing resources and expanding your living space.
- #4 Forager
95% 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 25.8% ★, Farming Sim 14.5%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 7.8%, Agriculture 7.5% ★
Why You'll Like It: This game captures the satisfying progression of gathering, crafting, and automating production in a charming, bite-sized format.
- #5 Autonauts
94% 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: Farming Sim 18.4%, Agriculture 15.8% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the automation aspect of we Am Future by allowing you to program robots to perform repetitive tasks for you.
- #6 Lightyear Frontier
94% matchVery Positive84% of 4,679 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 13.2 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: Agriculture 19.5% ★, Open World Survival Craft 17.3% ★, Farming Sim 16.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It combines mech-based exploration with farming and base-building on a peaceful, alien planet.
- #7 Littlewood
93% matchVery Positive93% of 6,824 reviews2020
Dev: Sean YoungPub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.
Why similar: Agriculture 21.2% ★, Farming Sim 13.7%, Life Sim 13%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the relaxing, low-stress management and building aspects of we Am Future in a charming pixel-art style.
- #8 My Time at Sandrock
92% matchVery Positive88% of 28,958 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 39.2 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: Farming Sim 22.4%, Life Sim 17.8%, Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the crafting and community-building aspects of the genre within a desert-themed post-apocalyptic setting.
- #9 Pacific Drive
91% matchVery Positive83% of 26,666 reviews2024
Dev: Ironwood StudiosPub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.
Why similar: Crafting 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Survival 13.7%, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique post-apocalyptic setting where you must maintain and upgrade your base of operations to survive the environment.
- #10 Scrap Mechanic
90% matchVery Positive92% of 122,134 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 64.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Building 20.3%, Crafting 17.4%, Sandbox 16.8%, Open World 14.2%, Survival 11%
Why You'll Like It: It provides deep creative freedom for building complex machines and automated systems within a survival-focused world.
- #11 Above Snakes
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,990 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 18.2% ★, Cozy 12.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 9.1%, Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a survival-crafting experience where you build your own world tile-by-tile in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #12 Roots of Pacha
89% matchVery Positive94% of 4,536 reviews2023
Dev: Soda Den
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.
Why similar: Farming Sim 18.6%, Agriculture 16.7% ★, Life Sim 10.7%, Cozy 10.3%, Crafting 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a relaxing, community-focused farming experience that emphasizes discovery and technological advancement.
- #13 DREDGE
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 56,479 reviews2023
Dev: Black Salt GamesPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.
Why similar: Open World 34.2%, Exploration 24.7%, RPG 12.4%, Simulation 10.9%, Adventure 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly cozy yet slightly eerie atmosphere centered on exploration and upgrading your vessel to survive.
- #14 The Wandering Village
88% matchVery Positive92% of 8,415 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
Why similar: Farming Sim 20.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Life Sim 13.1%, Sandbox 10.6%, Base Building 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique post-apocalyptic premise where you build a settlement on the back of a giant, moving creature.
- #15 Subnautica
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 378,847 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 34% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Open World 12.2%, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: It excels at the feeling of being alone in a mysterious, beautiful world while requiring you to build and manage a base to survive.
- #16 Coral Island
86% matchVery Positive89% of 27,509 reviews2023
Dev: Stairway GamesPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 13.6 hrsMean: 56.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Coral Island is a vibrant, laid-back farm sim reimagined with multiplayer! Experience enchanting island life at your own pace: farm with friends, nurture animals, build relationships, hang out with a diverse cast of characters, and dive into the magical Merfolk Kingdom.
Why similar: Farming Sim 25%, Agriculture 17.7% ★, Life Sim 13.8%, Crafting 7.7%, Building 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: It is a polished farming simulator that captures the relaxing, daily-routine gameplay loop found in we Am Future.
- #17 Wildmender
86% matchVery Positive84% of 2,225 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
Why similar: Farming Sim 21.8%, Agriculture 18.6% ★, Open World Survival Craft 16.7% ★, Crafting 8.7%, Base Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the gardening and restoration aspects of survival, tasking you with bringing life back to a harsh desert.
- #18 Dinkum
84% matchVery Positive92% of 29,064 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 29.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.
Why similar: Agriculture 22.1% ★, Open World Survival Craft 20% ★, Farming Sim 13.6%, Life Sim 8.4%, Crafting 7%
Why You'll Like It: It blends survival and base-building with a relaxed, Australian-outback-inspired aesthetic.
- #19 Clanfolk
84% matchVery Positive92% of 4,027 reviews2022
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.Pub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Why similar: Agriculture 20% ★, Farming Sim 17.9%, Life Sim 10.9%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim captures the survival and management elements of building a home in a challenging, natural environment.
- #20 Summer in Mara
85% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,192 reviews2020
Dev: Chibig
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Take care of your own island and sail with your boat in this cozy farming adventure! Relax and unwind exploring a tropical archipelago or harvesting your own crops while helping others. Discover the story of Summer in Mara, with farming, crafting and exploring mechanics.
Why similar: Farming Sim 20.6%, Agriculture 19.3% ★, Cozy 15.6%, Life Sim 13.1%, Crafting 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the cozy, exploration-heavy side of farming and base-maintenance on a tropical island.
- #21 One Lonely Outpost
83% matchMixed58% of 658 reviews2025
Dev: indie.io
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
An alien world sometimes needs a farmer’s touch to bring it to life. In this sci-fi, colonization-life sim, terraform a barren world: turn wastelands into verdant landscapes while exploring, farming, building, and unlocking all the mysteries of this strange new planet.
Why similar: Farming Sim 20.4%, Agriculture 20.2% ★, Life Sim 11.4%, Sandbox 9.5%, Crafting 8%
Why You'll Like It: It brings the farming-sim genre to a sci-fi, space-colony setting, focusing on building a new life on a barren planet.
- #22 Outpath
81% matchVery Positive93% of 3,103 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Cozy 16.6%, Crafting 14.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: It is a fast-paced, satisfying crafting and automation game that focuses on the joy of constant progression.
- #23 Cornucopia®
81% matchVery Positive88% of 659 reviews2023
Dev: David DolynnyPub: Subconscious Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A cozy 2.5D farm-life RPG that runs deep. Grow living soil into legendary harvests, romance 34+ villagers, breed magical animals, cook, fish, and dive the dungeons below for loot. No forced bedtime, no stress, just your dream farm at your own pace.
Why similar: Agriculture 19.9% ★, Farming Sim 19.6%, Life Sim 11%, Crafting 8.8%, Sandbox 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It adds depth to the farming-sim genre with complex crafting and RPG-like progression systems.
- #24 Spirit of the Island
82% matchMixed66% of 1,897 reviews2022
Dev: 1M Bits HordePub: META Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A beautiful Life Sim Sandbox RPG with Cross-Platform Online COOP set on a tropical Archipelago. Build your farm, grow crops and animals, craft various items, cook dishes, gather resources, build shops and museum to attract visitors, and turn a desolate Island into a prosperous tourist destination!
Why similar: Agriculture 16.4% ★, Open World Survival Craft 14.1% ★, Farming Sim 13.8%, Cozy 10.9%, Life Sim 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a colorful, co-op-friendly take on the island-survival and farming-sim genre.
- #25 Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 991 reviews2019
Dev: Alchemist InteractivePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Farm, cook, craft and decorate in this casual open world farming adventure! Set up camp with your crew after being shipwrecked on a mysterious archipelago. Your quest is to survive, explore and uncover the secrets of the Cursed Islands. Take care of your crew to build relationships and earn rewards!
Why similar: Agriculture 24.4% ★, Farming Sim 19.8%, Cozy 14.9%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines exploration and farming with a survival theme on a series of mysterious islands.
- #26 Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,695 reviews2024
Dev: stillalive studiosPub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Garden Life is a relaxing gardening game in which you create your dream garden in a peaceful, colourful world. Plant and add ornaments at your own pace, transforming an overgrown forgotten plot into a flourishing community garden.
Why similar: Farming Sim 26.3%, Cozy 23.3%, Agriculture 13.2% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Relaxing 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses entirely on the relaxing, creative aspects of gardening and plant management.
- #27 Hokko Life
80% matchMixed66% of 2,667 reviews2022
Dev: Wonderscope GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Hop off the train and into your new life in the village of Hokko! Take over the old workshop and get creative; use crafted materials and design everything in town! With complete creative freedom, what type of town will you build?
Why similar: Farming Sim 19.9%, Agriculture 19.6% ★, Cozy 12.6%, Life Sim 12.5%, Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes creative building and design tools, allowing for significant customization of your living space.
- #28 Song Of The Prairie
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,526 reviews2024
Dev: The Droplet StudioPub: AOE Plus
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 17.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Song of The Prairie is a 3D relaxing farm game. A hero who defeat the demon begins a new rural life. Experiencing the fun of exploration to the town. Harvesting giant fruits and crops. Taking care fantastic animals. Dating with someone you like. Just enjoy the farming life only belongs to you!
Why similar: Agriculture 22.2% ★, Farming Sim 19.6%, Life Sim 11.9%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a traditional, relaxing farming-sim experience with a strong focus on story and character interaction.
- #29 Solarpunk™
76% matchVery Positive82% of 4,341 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 17.7% ★, Farming Sim 13.8%, Cozy 11.3%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 8.4%
- #30 SunnySide
78% matchMixed66% of 1,168 reviews2024
Dev: Aftabi Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Find harmony in the Japanese countryside as you help Sparky uncover lost memories in this modern take on the farming and life simulator. Build a thriving homestead, cultivate new relationships, and chase your own happiness in SunnySide.
Why similar: Agriculture 20.4% ★, Farming Sim 17.7%, Cozy 14.1%, Life Sim 10.8%, Crafting 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It modernizes the farming-sim genre with a focus on exploration and relationship-building in a rural setting.
- #31 Luma Island
76% matchVery Positive84% of 12,657 reviews2024
Dev: Feel Free Games
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready to explore, farm, fish, mine, craft, and raise magical Lumas as you solve puzzles and embark on quests across Luma Island. Play solo, or team up with friends in 1-4 player online co-op. Choose relaxing Cozy, challenging Adventure, or epic Hero mode to match your mood and playstyle.
Why similar: Farming Sim 20.2%, Cozy 16.3%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 10.2%, Life Sim 9.3%
- #32 Among Trees
79% matchMixed68% of 2,233 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 9.8%, Building 8.8%, Sandbox 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly atmospheric, solitary survival experience focused on building a cabin in the woods.
- #33 My Time at Portia
77% matchVery Positive91% of 44,278 reviews2019
Dev: Pathea GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 35.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!
Why similar: Farming Sim 19.3%, Agriculture 14.5% ★, Life Sim 12.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 8.7%
- #34 Seeds of Calamity
75% matchVery Positive81% of 356 reviews2026
Dev: Laborious Lark StudiosPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
Take part in healing after the Great Calamity. Tend your farm, complete quests for the villagers, and explore dungeons filled with challenge and treasure in this cozy, solo-developed farming sim. Build a new life in a recovering world with your fluffy Spellbook Companion.
Why similar: Agriculture 20.4% ★, Farming Sim 19.5%, Cozy 14.6%, Life Sim 11.7%, Crafting 8.3%
- #35 Doloc Town
73% matchVery Positive95% of 3,537 reviews2026
Dev: RedSaw Games StudioPub: Logoi Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Play as a young scavenger and construct your vertical farm one platform at a time under extreme weather. Evolving from a scrap-gathering survivor into an easygoing farming tycoon. Transform the climate, and remake the wasteland into your personal Eden.
Why similar: Farming Sim 21.7%, Cozy 17.2%, Crafting 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Building 11%
- #36 No Place Like Home
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 4,097 reviews2022
Dev: Chicken LauncherPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.7 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: Farming Sim 18.6%, Agriculture 17.9% ★, Life Sim 10.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 8.7%
- #37 Island Beekeeper
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 186 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 19.7% ★, Farming Sim 16.1%, Cozy 14.9%, Building 8%, Crafting 7.9%
- #38 Cowboy Life Simulator
73% matchVery Positive89% of 1,278 reviews2025
Dev: Odd QubitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
“Cowboy Life Simulator” is an immersive and relaxing ranching sim where you step into the boots of a failed businessman starting fresh on the frontier. Buy your first goat, meet the locals, explore vibrant lands, and build your dream ranch in a world full of stories and adventure!
Why similar: Agriculture 15.5% ★, Farming Sim 14.3%, Cozy 10.6%, Life Sim 8.3%, Crafting 8.2%
- #39 Starsand Island
72% matchMostly Positive82% of 7,727 reviews2026
Dev: Seed Sparkle Lab
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Tired of the city grind? Escape to Starsand Island and embrace the simple joys of country life! Live alongside capybaras, cats, and dogs, reel in a big catch, and explore the enchanting Moonlit Forest. Leave the hustle behind and experience the charm of this seaside paradise.
Why similar: Farming Sim 24.6%, Life Sim 15.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 11%
- #40 Farm to Table
73% matchVery Positive92% of 662 reviews2026
Dev: indieGiant
Windows
A farming & restaurant management sim with base building elements. Grow in backyard to cook & serve! Discover new recipes by exploring ingredients on the island; gather, fish, raise animals & produce with machines. Manage resources, hire staff & grow your organic business into a 5-star restaurant!
Why similar: Agriculture 18.9% ★, Farming Sim 18.2%, Open World Survival Craft 17.7% ★, Cozy 13.5%, Crafting 9.4%
- #41 Above Snakes: Prologue
75% matchVery Positive90% of 1,874 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 24.3% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Cozy 11.5%, Base Building 9.5%, Open World 7.7%
- #42 Critter Cove
71% matchVery Positive95% of 1,931 reviews2024
Dev: Gentleman Rat Studios
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A deep, open world life sim and town building game set in a cozy post-apocalyptic paradise. Restore your town, sail across a mysterious archipelago, rescue animal pals. Hunt for relics and farm, fish & craft everything you need. Can you help turn Critter Cove into a thriving tourist town once again?
Why similar: Farming Sim 28%, Life Sim 17.3%, Sandbox 14.3%, Open World 12.5%, Relaxing 8.6%
- #43 DYSMANTLE
71% matchVery Positive91% of 11,572 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Agriculture 19.9% ★, Crafting 15.5%, Open World 13.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 11.2%
- #44 Outbound
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,098 reviews2026
Dev: Square Glade Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.9 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 17.9% ★, Cozy 17%, Crafting 11%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 10.3%
- #45 World End Diner
70% matchVery Positive93% of 424 reviews2025
Dev: Andymente
Windows
Run a diner on the last island in the world after the destruction of humankind! For the cute animals and robots that survived, cook delicious food, run a farm, explore the forest, and create the best diner!
Why similar: Agriculture 23.1% ★, Farming Sim 21.3%, Life Sim 12.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%
- #46 The Last Caretaker
68% matchVery Positive86% of 13,056 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 19.6 hrsMean: 36.3 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: Crafting 17.3%, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Open World 13.2%
- #47 Garden Buddies
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 95 reviews2023
Dev: JamPicsPub: RedDeer.Games
Windows
Unleash your inner gardener and immerse yourself in the serene world of Garden Buddies, cultivating a vibrant flower garden alongside your new friend Mutsy. Discover an enchanting and fulfilling experience to release your stress.
Why similar: Agriculture 19.5% ★, Farming Sim 17.7%, Life Sim 10.8%, Crafting 8.6%, Cozy 8.2%
- #48 Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 473 reviews2023
Dev: Snowcastle Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Ikonei Island is yours to discover! Explore and gather resources. Farm the land, craft tools and gear, and build your base or a cozy home. Befriend magical creatures and fight monsters with your friends or solo!
Why similar: Farming Sim 23.6%, Cozy 17.1%, Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.6%, Relaxing 10.1%
- #49 Pathless Woods
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,110 reviews2024
Dev: AniYa Games Studio
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Why similar: Farming Sim 19.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Open World 9.7%, Building 9.6%
- #50 Green Project
71% matchVery Positive80% of 1,460 reviews2020
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Post apocalyptic survival farming, green the world to survive !
Why similar: Farming Sim 36%, Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, Simulation 15.7%, Survival 15.4%, Indie 6.7%
- #51 Forever Skies
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 8,950 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.6 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 23.6% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 10.6%, Building 10.3%
- #52 Forage Wizard
66% matchVery Positive87% of 1,486 reviews2026
Dev: Lost Maxim
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Click, craft and collect your way to alchemical mastery. Progress through a branching skill tree and explore the forbidden woods. Collect resources and build machines of magic. Slay monsters, farm crops and automate your production to become the all-powerful Forage Wizard!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 16.6% ★, Farming Sim 13.7%, Crafting 11.1%, Life Sim 9.7%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #53 Hillshade Farm
67% matchMixed69% of 78 reviews2026
Dev: NORTHSTAR Games
Windows
You’ve got land, time, and a whole lot to figure out. Start small, work hard, earn what you need, and build the kind of farm you’d never want to leave.
Why similar: Farming Sim 21.4%, Agriculture 17.4% ★, Life Sim 13%, Crafting 10%, Building 9%
- #54 Russian Village Simulator on Mars
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: VD Games
Windows
Develop a village colony on Mars, using various resources and bringing the unique flavor of Russian culture to the distant space.
Why similar: Agriculture 20.1% ★, Farming Sim 14.1%, Open World Survival Craft 13.5% ★, Life Sim 9.4%, Base Building 8.2%
- #55 Cropia
65% matchVery Positive93% of 81 reviews2026
Dev: Cropstone Studio
Windows
Cultivate crops, care for animals, fish, mine resources, and explore diverse environments while growing the local community. Invite village residents to work with you and collaborate to meet city targets, helping you achieve goals more efficiently.
Why similar: Agriculture 24.3% ★, Farming Sim 21.1%, Life Sim 12.7%, Crafting 10.4%, Cozy 8%
- #56 Everdream Village
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 143 reviews2025
Dev: MooneatersPub: Untold Tales
Windows
Build your ideal, cozy farm in a living village. Form bonds with fellow villagers to lend a hand as you grow crops, care for animals, and craft a corner of paradise. Sail across enchanted islands to discover new resources and adventures along the way.
Why similar: Farming Sim 22.8%, Cozy 17.8%, Life Sim 12%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 8.6%
- #57 Farmer's Dynasty - Final Harvest Edition
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,307 reviews2019
Dev: UMEO StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Live – Build – Farm: Enjoy a unique mix of farming, constructing and life simulation that takes you to the countryside and holds plenty of challenging gameplay in stock!
Why similar: Farming Sim 25.5%, Agriculture 23.5% ★, Life Sim 15%, Building 7%, Crafting 6.4%
- #58 Animalkind
65% matchVery Positive91% of 88 reviews2026
Dev: Uncommon Games
Windows
Forage, frolic and zoomie as an intelligent, aww-dorable animal who discovers an ancient mech. Pilot the mech and use a suite of powerful tools to gather resources, shape the land, and build your ideal town alongside a growing cast of characters—solo or with up to three friends.
Why similar: Farming Sim 17.9%, Cozy 15%, Life Sim 11.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #59 Sky Harvest
65% matchVery Positive85% of 103 reviews2026
Dev: Armored CatPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Armed with hand-me-down tools and some cash, you begin your new life as THE Chief Farmer, a position your grandfather once excelled in. Can you honor his legacy and transform the overgrown, untamed and desolate floating island into a flourishing farm abundant with produce?
Why similar: Agriculture 20.5% ★, Farming Sim 19.4%, Life Sim 11.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 8.5%
