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Games Like Lifecraft

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Sandbox, Simulation, Management, Singleplayer.

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Survive and evolve as an organism with this simulation game in which you will literally start as a single cell and manage and organize all its functions to a fully fledged system! Assemble, breathe, eat, fight threats, produce energy, grow, anything is possible!

Reviews: Very Positive — 81% — of 147 reviews
Released: 2024-04-16
Developer: Pixbits
Genres: Simulation, Strategy, Early Access
Platforms: Windows, Mac

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    97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 743 reviews2025
    Dev: Sotenbox
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilizations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn!

    Why similar: God Game 27.5%, Science 24.7%, Sandbox 14.1%, Life Sim 10.2%, Management 9.9%

  2. #2 Incremental Factory
    96% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
    Dev: Significant Steak
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%

    Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!

    Why similar: Automation 31.5%, Crafting 15.9%, Sandbox 13%, Building 11.8%, Base Building 10.1%

  3. #3 Ecosystem
    95% matchMostly Positive77% of 594 reviews2024
    Dev: Tom JohnsonPub: Slug Disco
    Windows

    Create virtual lifeforms whose development is shaped by a deep simulation of evolution. Guide them as they fight, mate, and adapt to the environment you have built. All the creatures in the trailer evolved on their own in the game!

    Why similar: Automation 22%, God Game 19.9%, Science 17%, Sandbox 10.3%, Life Sim 9.8%

  4. #4 Vilmonic
    96% matchMostly Positive72% of 85 reviews2018
    Dev: Bludgeonsoft
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Vilmonic is an artificial life simulator and genetics and evolution sandbox game. Protect and breed unique pixel-art life forms where pixels and color have meaning. Craft tools and buildings and change the environment. Find ancient tech and fend off haywire zombitons. Craft Farm Breed Evolve!

    Why similar: God Game 25.8%, Science 24.6%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 14.4%, Management 7.5%

  5. #5 Microtopia
    94% matchVery Positive88% of 903 reviews2025
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

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  6. #6 Sapiens
    94% matchVery Positive84% of 2,103 reviews2022
    Dev: Majic Jungle
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

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  7. #7 Odd Realm
    93% matchVery Positive85% of 992 reviews2024
    Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%

    Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

    Why similar: God Game 24.8%, Base Building 17%, Management 13.5%, Crafting 13.4%, Procedural Generation 9%

  8. #8 Atrio: The Dark Wild
    92% matchVery Positive80% of 592 reviews2023
    Dev: Isto Inc.
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.

    Why similar: Automation 30%, Crafting 16.3%, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 12.8%, Isometric 7.9%

  9. #9 Outpath
    91% matchVery Positive94% of 2,905 reviews2023
    Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

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  10. #10 Kubifaktorium
    90% matchVery Positive81% of 786 reviews2021
    Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%

    Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

    Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Building 14.7%, Crafting 14.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Management 11.9%

  11. #11 Multicellular
    91% matchMixed64% of 55 reviews2018
    Dev: Insane Dreamers
    Windows

    Multicellular will take you back in time, to the dawn of life. Build your multicellular organism and combat hunger, the environment, darkness and other organisms. Everything in this new world can kill you, will you be able to survive?

    Why similar: Science 52%, Sandbox 30.5%, Simulation 9.1%, Colorful 4.8%, Resource Management 3.6%

  12. #12 Genesis of a Small God
    88% matchVery Positive83% of 63 reviews2024
    Dev: Pierre Nury
    Windows

    You have awoken as a small god. As you accumulate the faith and souls of your followers, you will learn incredible new abilities. Protect, guide your people and smite any threats that may arise. The fate of your world is in your hands.

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  13. #13 ReFactory
    89% matchMostly Positive78% of 91 reviews2022
    Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
    Windows

    Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.

    Why similar: Automation 26.7%, Base Building 18.2%, Crafting 16.6%, Sandbox 10.7%, Management 10.2%

  14. #14 Factorio
    86% 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 35.5%, Base Building 18.3%, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 6.8%

  15. #15 Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox
    89% matchMixed45% of 147 reviews2017
    Dev: Pill Bug Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 18 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 26%

    A toy ecosystem with fully simulated genetics and evolution. Will you tinker with DNA or sit back, relax, and see if life finds a way?

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  16. #16 Revive & Prosper
    86% matchMostly Positive74% of 80 reviews2023
    Dev: Mystiqular
    Windows

    A complex but not difficult voxel automation game with belts, trains, teleports, and even catapults for transport. Achieve efficiency through smart water control. Play with or without enemies. Produce materials and fuel for a spaceship. Deal with the toxic side effects. Can you Revive & Prosper?

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  17. #17 Gridworld
    87% matchVery Positive86% of 243 reviews2015
    Dev: DopplerFrog
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Gridworld is an artificial life and evolution simulator. Watch creatures evolve through natural selection as they learn to find food, avoid danger, and compete with other creatures for survival.

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  18. #18 AutoForge
    84% matchVery Positive88% of 450 reviews2024
    Dev: Siege Games
    Windows

    A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.

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  19. #19 Sandboxels
    82% matchVery Positive95% of 844 reviews2025
    Dev: R74n
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 60%

    Falling-sand sandbox game with 500+ elements, chemistry, fire, life, food, and anything you can imagine.

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  20. #20 Little Big Workshop
    84% matchVery Positive84% of 3,350 reviews2019
    Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

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  21. #21 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
    85% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
    Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%

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  22. #22 shapez
    82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,210 reviews2020
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%

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  23. #23 Tea Garden Simulator
    83% matchMostly Positive74% of 62 reviews2023
    Dev: Flying Robot StudiosPub: SYV Games LLP
    Windows

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  24. #24 Terra Firma 2
    81% matchVery Positive89% of 103 reviews2025
    Dev: Working as Intended
    Windows

    Shape breathtaking worlds in Terra Firma 2, a vast simulation where your creations evolve through the forces of nature. Sculpt the land, then watch as weather, erosion, and life itself transform your world into a dynamic, living ecosystem- right down to every plant and creature.

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  25. #25 Adaptory
    80% matchVery Positive84% of 91 reviews2026
    Dev: Stormcloak GamesPub: indie.io
    Windows · Mac

    Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.

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  26. #26 The Sapling
    81% matchVery Positive90% of 1,846 reviews2019
    Dev: Wessel Stoop
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%

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  27. #27 Eden Crafters
    79% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
    Dev: Osaris Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%

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  28. #28 Surviving Ceres
    79% matchVery Positive87% of 137 reviews2025
    Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
    Windows

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  29. #29 MoteMancer
    77% matchVery Positive94% of 236 reviews2025
    Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
    Windows

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    75% matchVery Positive90% of 2,078 reviews2025
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    Windows
    Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%

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    Windows
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  32. #32 Miniland Adventure
    77% matchMostly Positive74% of 328 reviews2023
    Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
    Windows
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 54%

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  33. #33 Common'hood
    78% matchMixed51% of 338 reviews2022
    Dev: Plethora Project
    Windows

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  34. #34 Survival Vacancy
    78% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
    Dev: Mind Leak
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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  35. #35 FOUNDRY
    74% matchVery Positive81% of 3,508 reviews2024
    Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

    Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 14.1%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 13.5%

  36. #36 The Last Starship
    73% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,419 reviews2026
    Dev: Introversion Software
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%

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  37. #37 Gnomoria
    76% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,532 reviews2016
    Dev: Robotronic Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.3 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.

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  38. #38 Creo God Simulator
    73% matchMostly Positive79% of 237 reviews2025
    Dev: MKSM Design LLC
    Windows
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%

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    Why similar: God Game 39%, Management 16.1%, Isometric 11.9%, Sandbox 11.1%, Procedural Generation 7.7%

  39. #39 Craft Hero
    74% matchVery Positive83% of 398 reviews2022
    Dev: PandaCat 熊喵独立游戏Pub: OKJOY
    Windows

    Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night! A new minimalism sandbox survival with countless new ideas – Craft Hero

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  40. #40 Evospace
    75% matchVery Positive82% of 387 reviews2019
    Dev: Quantum Rivet
    Windows · Mac

    Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.

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  41. #41 Reus 2
    71% matchVery Positive95% of 2,219 reviews2024
    Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!

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  42. #42 Plan B: Terraform
    70% matchVery Positive91% of 3,463 reviews2025
    Dev: Gaddy Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%

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  43. #43 Microtopia: Prologue
    71% matchVery Positive95% of 112 reviews2024
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows

    Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

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  44. #44 MegaFactory Titan
    73% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2022
    Dev: Q Switched Productions, LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!

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  45. #45 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
    69% matchVery Positive85% of 729 reviews2025
    Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%

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    72% matchMixed63% of 136 reviews2023
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    Windows

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  47. #47 Star Crafter
    69% matchMixed69% of 104 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.

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  48. #48 Monster Lab Simulator
    68% matchMostly Positive77% of 483 reviews2026
    Dev: Round 3 Studios
    Windows
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    Ready to become a mad scientist? Synthesize, evolve, and command an army of unique creatures in your own lab. Manage your laboratory, master genetic essences, and dominate the battle arena in this deep creature collection simulator!

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  49. #49 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
    68% matchVery Positive85% of 620 reviews2024
    Dev: Luden.io
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    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 64%

    You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.

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  50. #50 Tiny Life
    68% matchVery Positive87% of 403 reviews2023
    Dev: Ellpeck GamesPub: Top Hat Studios, Inc.
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    In Tiny Life, you control a set of people that live together in a household. You take care of their daily needs, build their skills, forge new relationships... or just mess up their entire life in whatever way you can think of!

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  51. #51 Life in Bunker
    72% matchMixed60% of 333 reviews2016
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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  52. #52 Farlight Explorers
    71% matchMixed56% of 205 reviews2019
    Dev: Farlight Games Industry
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    Extract and gather resources from different planets. Manage the supply of electricity, water, food and oxygen of your base in order to survive. Automate the creation of new products. Build a spaceship to transport your products to other places...

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  53. #53 Automation Empire
    70% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
    Dev: DOG HOGGLER
    Windows
    Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%

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  54. #54 Stardeus
    67% matchVery Positive87% of 1,529 reviews2022
    Dev: Kodo LinijaPub: Paradox Arc
    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.

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  55. #55 Lumencraft
    67% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,264 reviews2023
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    Lumencraft is a unique combination of a top-down, rogue-like shooter and base building with tower defense elements. Dig and light up dark halls of a fully destructible environment on procedurally generated maps and campaign levels to find precious Lumen - humanity's only chance for survival.

    Why similar: Sandbox 40.4%, Base Building 35.5%, Strategy 12%, Colorful 6.2%, 2D 5.8%

  56. #56 Tower Factory
    65% matchVery Positive89% of 1,139 reviews2024
    Dev: Gius Caminiti
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    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?

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  57. #57 Castle Craft
    65% matchVery Positive87% of 359 reviews2025
    Dev: Twin EarthPub: Astra Logical
    Windows

    Will your castle survive the relentless onslaught, or collapse under pressure? Build, manage resources, and outsmart your foes in a world where everything can be destroyed. Use strategy and creativity to turn the chaos into your greatest advantage!

    Why similar: Base Building 28.5%, Building 27.5%, Sandbox 27.3%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 6.7%

  58. #58 Vilset
    70% 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: Automation 27.9%, Building 18.7%, Base Building 17.4%, Crafting 15.9%, Sandbox 12.6%

  59. #59 City idle
    67% matchMostly Positive72% of 214 reviews2023
    Dev: Grest Games OÜ
    Windows

    Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.

    Why similar: Building 22.8%, Crafting 20.4%, Management 13.8%, Strategy 12.3%, Simulation 8.9%

  60. #60 FortressCraft Evolved!
    69% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,055 reviews2015
    Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

    Why similar: Automation 32.6%, Sandbox 16.7%, Crafting 16.7%, Building 15.7%, Base Building 11.6%

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