Games Like Lightyear Frontier

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 23.5% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Automation 11%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Transforms a barren alien landscape into a lush habitable world through base building and terraforming similar to your farmstead goals.

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 33.1% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Open World 11.2%, Automation 8.6%, Co-op 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Exploiting colourful alien worlds and gathering resources in a sci-fi sandbox heavily mirrors the exploration loop of Lightyear Frontier.

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 19.3%, Base Building 16%, Open World Survival Craft 11.9% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers first-person sci-fi base building and automation on a vibrant alien planet for players who enjoy expanding their infrastructure.

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 21.3% ★, Automation 16.7%, Base Building 12%, Farming Sim 10.4%, Crafting 8%

Why You'll Like It: Mixes automation, base building, and exploration on a colorful alien planet with a charming top-down perspective.

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 27.6%, Mining 17.7% ★, Building 15.5%, Crafting 14.1%, Sandbox 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a cozy crafting and building loop focused on rebuilding a community in a frontier environment.

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: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Farming Sim 17.4%, Crafting 8.8%, Co-op 8.2%, Online Co-Op 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the relaxing homestead-building and farming simulation feel in a unique open-world setting.

Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.

Why similar: Open World 31.2%, Sandbox 18.2%, First-Person 15.5%, Management 15.3%, Simulation 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines charming alien creature management with open-world exploration and relaxed resource gathering.

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 21%, Mining 18% ★, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a cozy open-world adventure with farming, crafting, and building elements designed for relaxation.

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 25.5% ★, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 9.6%, Co-op 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base building and survival crafting on a volatile alien planet for players wanting slightly more action.

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.8% ★, Open World 18.4%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 8.9%, First-Person 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides seamless planetary exploration, base building, and resource gathering across a vast universe of alien worlds.

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: Automation 26.1%, Farming Sim 14.4%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automated resource gathering and crafting in a cute, relaxing sandbox environment.

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 20.3% ★, Farming Sim 19.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 10.2%, Base Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building a cozy rooftop base and automating tasks in a relaxed post-apocalyptic setting.

TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.3% ★, Mining 15.3% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Automation 9.5%, Crafting 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features vehicle construction and base building on alien planets, echoing the mechanical aspect of Lightyear Frontier.

Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines underground sandbox mining, base building, and farming in an engaging exploratory loop.

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 16.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides voxel-based factory building and resource automation in a procedurally generated world.

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 37.8% ★, Co-op 11.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on expanding a floating base while gathering resources from the environment and exploring new locations.

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 19.7% ★, Farming Sim 11.7%, Automation 9.7%, Base Building 9.2%, Crafting 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: An eco-friendly survival crafting game centered on building floating islands and utilizing renewable energy.

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: Automation 19.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 11%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Crafting 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on underground factory building and automation within a mysterious alien planet.

Discover a welcoming world in Palia, a free-to-play fantasy life sim adventure where you can craft, explore, and create the life and home of your dreams. With nearly endless ways to make Palia your home, you’ll find relaxation and joy in every corner of this vibrant, heartwarming world.

Why similar: Farming Sim 32%, Building 16%, Crafting 15.7%, Online Co-Op 14%, Co-op 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy community sim emphasizing peaceful farming, exploration, and building your dream home.

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Mining 19.3% ★, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep atmospheric and resource simulation for players who love intricate sci-fi base building.

Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in this unique, relaxing farming experience!

Why similar: Farming Sim 29.1%, Online Co-Op 16.5%, Building 15.2%, Co-op 12.1%, Relaxing 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a pure, relaxing farming experience with wide-open spaces to cultivate your ideal homestead.

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 22.2% ★, Mining 12.6% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 8.8%, Online Co-Op 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A technical survival game set on Mars focusing on base construction and resource management.

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 24.3% ★, Automation 15.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Online Co-Op 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines factory automation and terraforming to transform hostile planets into livable worlds.

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 13%, Building 11.8%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Co-op 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Involves upgrading and operating a mobile base vehicle while exploring a hazardous volcanic island.

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 31.6%, Online Co-Op 15.9%, Crafting 15.3%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative stone-age farming and community-building game with a heavy emphasis on discovery and relaxation.

DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.4% ★, Building 14.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, Crafting 10%, Co-op 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Blends block-based building and creative farming with an expansive adventure across diverse regions.

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: Automation 22.8%, Base Building 20%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 11%, Crafting 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features automated space station building and colony management across the stars.

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: Farming Sim 16.5%, Automation 14.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing survival and colony-sim game centered around building a thriving settlement on the ocean.

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 23.3% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing exploration and base-building game focused on living off the grid in electric camper vehicles.

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 26.9% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Automation 11.6%, Co-op 9%, Crafting 9%

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Building 14.2%, Online Co-Op 12%, Co-op 10.6%, Base Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base building, farming, and electricity management in an atmospheric steampunk environment.

Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Automation 15.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 8.8%, Online Co-Op 8.1%

Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!

Why similar: Mining 17.8% ★, Automation 16.7%, Farming Sim 10.3%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 9.1%

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 25.2% ★, Automation 12.5%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 8.2%, Online Co-Op 8.1%

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: Automation 19.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 13.3%, Resource Management 10.6%, Open World 10.5%

In a future not too far away, humans are finally able to harvest food on alien planets. Embark on a new journey with your team of robots called Beebop 179. Build and manage a hydroponic farm, grow delicious plants and survive the mysterious challenges of outer space.

Why similar: Farming Sim 22.7%, Automation 17.5%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 10.7%, Crafting 9.6%

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 20.4% ★, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 10.4%

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 22.7% ★, Mining 17.7% ★, Automation 11.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 9.2%

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 27.8% ★, Farming Sim 17.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Co-op 9.2%, Building 8.8%

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 25.3% ★, Base Building 14%, Open World 11%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 10.3%

Build your own mining company from the ground up. Extract resources, operate heavy machinery, construct infrastructure, and grow from a laborer to the King of Klondike.

Why similar: Farming Sim 19.6%, Mining 14.9% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 8%

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: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Farming Sim 18.4%, Automation 13.8%, Building 9.7%, Crafting 9.3%

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 28.2% ★, Mining 12.4% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Crafting 9%

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 31.4% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 9.7%, Automation 8.8%

In Smart Farm you take over an abandoned farm bought at auction and rebuild it with hard work, smart planning and modern agriculture. Restore fields and buildings, care for animals, process your harvest and turn ruins into a profitable farm.

Why similar: Farming Sim 27.1%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 13.9%, Resource Management 11.4%, Building 7.7%

Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine. Cut through the asteroid with your laser, sell ore, and create an automated network of robot helpers to maximize your profit.

Why similar: Mining 23.8% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 9.5%

Builder. Farmer. Hunter. Trader. Ranching certainly isn’t your average job. Think you have the skills to turn your family’s rundown homestead into the most prosperous ranch in the valley? Then it’s time to head out into the wilderness in this captivating single and multiplayer open-world simulator.

Why similar: Farming Sim 24.6%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Open World 11.3%, Co-op 11.2%, Sandbox 10.5%

The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.

Why similar: Automation 18.6%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 12.1%, Sandbox 11.6%

Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Automation 16%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 9.7%

Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!

Why similar: Mining 20.8% ★, Automation 16.1%, Base Building 13%, Building 8.6%, Co-op 8.3%

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 20.1% ★, Automation 19.4%, Crafting 14.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Open World 13.1%

Mine, farm, manufacture components and build a wide range of machines in an infinite basement. Forget primitive tasks thanks to automation! And sell your products to your customers! Build a parking, a gas station...

Why similar: Automation 19.8%, Sandbox 13.7%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 13.2%, Management 10%

Farming Simulator 25 invites you to join the rewarding farm life, single-handedly or cooperatively in multiplayer. This Farm is Your Farm!

Why similar: Farming Sim 39.6%, Building 13.7%, Online Co-Op 12%, Management 10.7%, Simulation 9.3%

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: Mechs 22.6% ★, Farming Sim 18.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Building 9.6%

Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Automation 18.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Co-op 9.3%, Building 8.8%

The Ranchers is an open world country-life sim for 1-4 players. Raise animals, grow tasty crops, craft helpful tools and build your dream house. Explore the open world and earn the villagers' respect and esteem.

Why similar: Farming Sim 26.1%, Mining 19.6% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 9%

“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: Farming Sim 22.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 12.8%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 10.1%

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.

Why similar: Automation 17.7%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 14.7%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 10.5%

Gather, craft, build and explore alone or with up to 3 friends. Unlock new land, collect resources, build and decorate your home, farm, fish, automate production, upgrade your character, and defend against optional enemy raids.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17% ★, Farming Sim 16.9%, Mining 16.2% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Building 9.2%

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: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Farming Sim 26.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Online Co-Op 9.9%