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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Base Building, Crafting, Exploration, Singleplayer.

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JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.

Reviews: Mixed — 63% — of 672 reviews
Released: 2021-11-12
Developer: SCT
Genres: Adventure, Casual, Indie, Simulation, Early Access
Platforms: Windows
Median playtime: 1.8 hrs
Mean playtime: 2.8 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 61%

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  2. #2 Techtonica
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    95% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
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    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%

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    94% matchVery Positive85% of 9,793 reviews2025
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    Windows
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    Windows

    Take over a disfunctional Waste Management Facility on a distant planet. Build incinerators, recyclers, robots, turrets, and more. Battle vicious creatures on the planet's surface with powerful weapons!

    Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Building 16.8%, Third Person 16.2%, Adventure 12.4%, Base Building 11.5%

  55. #55 Elsewhere
    65% matchVery Positive95% of 64 reviews2025
    Dev: Four White Cats
    Windows

    Explore, dig for resources, and build factories in a vibrant open world with quests for both technological and magical progression. Inspired by classic old-school Minecraft modpacks and featuring many new and unique features.

    Why similar: Automation 29.2%, Crafting 21.7%, Building 17.9%, Immersive Sim 13.5%, Exploration 9%

  56. #56 Recycling Center Simulator
    65% matchVery Positive87% of 2,774 reviews2024
    Dev: Balas GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
    Windows
    Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Recycling Center Simulator is a business simulator game with a first person view. Make money from garbage, collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improve your factory.

    Why similar: Automation 24.9%, Management 12.8%, Building 12.7%, Immersive Sim 12.3%, Crafting 12.1%

  57. #57 WW2 Rebuilder
    66% matchVery Positive85% of 1,515 reviews2023
    Dev: Madnetic Games
    Windows
    Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Build the new future of Europe! Flip, renovate, repair and rebuild places destroyed during World War 2. Get to know the history and stories of civilians. Play an immersive building simulator with grappling storytelling.

    Why similar: Crafting 16%, Building 13.8%, Immersive Sim 13.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Realistic 11.1%

  58. #58 Blossom: The Seed of Life
    63% matchVery Positive90% of 654 reviews2026
    Dev: Pebbledust GamesPub: Pretty Soon
    Windows

    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: Automation 22.7%, Robots 17.4%, Crafting 16%, Building 14.7%, Base Building 13.5%

  59. #59 Factorio
    64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020
    Dev: Wube Software LTD.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 188.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%

    Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

    Why similar: Automation 45.5%, Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 15.9%, Building 8.7%, Management 7.7%

  60. #60 Mechanica
    69% matchMixed64% of 633 reviews2020
    Dev: Deimos Interactive
    Windows

    Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming. Create your own bases, defenses, manufacturing systems and more. Explore the map and expand the scope and complexity of your creations.

    Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Building 28%, Base Building 23%, Robots 19.4%

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