- #1 The Planet Crafter
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 24.5% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Crafting 9.2%, Resource Management 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on terraforming a barren alien world, mirroring the environmental restoration themes of Lightyear Frontier.
- #2 ASTRONEER
96% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 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 33.4% ★, Base Building 13%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features similar vibrant, low-stress exploration and base building on colorful alien planets with a focus on resource gathering.
- #3 Satisfactory
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 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 20.9%, Open World Survival Craft 15% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Resource Management 11.3%, Open World 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on automation, it offers a similar experience of building massive structures on a beautiful, untouched alien world.
- #4 TerraTech Worlds
96% matchMixed63% of 2,175 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 29.8% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, Co-op 9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep vehicle and base building mechanics that allow you to customize your traversal and resource gathering on alien landscapes.
- #5 Slime Rancher 2
94% matchVery Positive94% of 46,920 reviews2025
Dev: Monomi Park
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Continue the adventures of Beatrix LeBeau as she journeys across the Slime Sea to Rainbow Island, a land brimming with ancient mysteries, and bursting with wiggly, new slimes to wrangle in this sequel to the smash-hit, Slime Rancher.
Why similar: Open World 34.6%, Relaxing 30%, First-Person 19.3%, Atmospheric 9.6%, Singleplayer 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the cozy, colorful alien farming and exploration vibe perfectly without the pressure of combat.
- #6 Wildmender
94% matchVery Positive85% of 2,104 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.5 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 20.9%, Open World Survival Craft 20.3% ★, Agriculture 17% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes the cozy gardening and environmental restoration aspects found in Lightyear Frontier.
- #7 Nova Lands
93% matchVery Positive89% of 3,351 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.4 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 25.3% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Farming Sim 12.8%, Resource Management 10.2%, Crafting 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines cozy automation and island exploration with a charming art style that feels very similar to the seed game.
- #8 Forever Skies
92% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 32.0 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 24.8% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Co-op 8.8%, Resource Management 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique mobile base (airship) that you must upgrade and maintain while exploring a ruined world.
- #9 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
91% matchVery Positive85% of 4,518 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 14.6 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: Agriculture 19.4% ★, Farming Sim 17%, Open World Survival Craft 16.9% ★, Crafting 9.7%, Base Building 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on relaxing base building and resource management in a post-apocalyptic setting that avoids combat.
- #10 Dinkum
90% matchVery Positive92% of 28,435 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 28.4 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: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Agriculture 23% ★, Farming Sim 14.9%, Crafting 7.7%, Online Co-Op 7%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing farming and exploration game that captures the same sense of building a home in a new environment.
- #11 No Man's Sky
91% matchVery Positive85% of 402,164 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.2 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.4% ★, Open World 12.7%, Survival 8%, Sandbox 7.8%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an expansive universe for exploration, base building, and resource management that aligns with the sci-fi setting of the seed game.
- #12 Eden Crafters
89% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Sandbox 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative game centered on terraforming and building, sharing the core loop of resource management and expansion.
- #13 Techtonica
89% matchMixed65% of 3,183 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.1 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 19.4%, Resource Management 14%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 10.3%, Online Co-Op 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a first-person perspective on automation and base building within a beautiful, bioluminescent alien cave system.
- #14 My Time at Sandrock
88% matchVery Positive88% of 28,280 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.8 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: Farming Sim 44.8%, Crafting 23.2%, Sandbox 17.2%, Open World 13.4%, Singleplayer 1.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on community building, crafting, and farming in a desert setting with a strong emphasis on cozy progression.
- #15 Core Keeper
86% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 23.6% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.4%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a cozy, top-down survival and base-building experience with a heavy emphasis on farming and exploration.
- #16 Volcanoids
87% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Open World 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features a drill-ship that acts as your mobile base, offering a unique take on vehicle-based survival and exploration.
- #17 Astro Colony
86% matchVery Positive82% of 2,509 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 31.3%, Resource Management 21%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Allows for the construction of complex space bases with a focus on automation and resource management.
- #18 Occupy Mars: The Game
85% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,012 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 12.5%, Resource Management 12.1%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Sandbox 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a more technical approach to Mars-based survival, base building, and resource management.
- #19 Aloft
83% matchVery Positive84% of 3,496 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 13.9 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 24.6% ★, Agriculture 18.2% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Co-op 10.2%, Survival 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Allows you to build bases on floating islands and explore the skies, emphasizing survival and crafting.
- #20 Farworld Pioneers
84% matchMostly Negative38% of 691 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 24.6% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 10.5%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Co-op 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management and exploration with a colorful aesthetic and a focus on building a new home.
- #21 Scrapnaut
84% matchMostly Positive70% of 824 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 24.3% ★, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 10.4%, Co-op 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features a top-down perspective on survival and base building with a focus on resource management and crafting.
- #22 Subnautica
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 40.0 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 36.6% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 11%, Survival 10.2%, Open World 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: While more survival-focused, it offers an unparalleled sense of wonder and base building on an alien planet.
- #23 Roboplant
82% matchMixed66% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: Rebelpug
Windows · Linux
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: Agriculture 24.5% ★, Farming Sim 23.1%, Resource Management 12.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A dedicated farming and automation simulator that focuses on the agricultural side of the seed game.
- #24 Breathedge
82% matchVery Positive82% of 16,026 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 35% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Survival 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A space-themed survival game that focuses on crafting and base building in a zero-gravity environment.
- #25 Out of Ore
80% matchVery Positive86% of 3,794 reviews2022
Dev: North Modding Company AB
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A casual heavy equipment experience. Mine ore, Move dirt, Build and repair.
Why similar: Farming Sim 25.7%, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 10.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a realistic simulation of mining and resource management for players who enjoy the industrial side of the seed game.
- #26 Grow: Song of the Evertree
81% matchVery Positive81% of 2,538 reviews2021
Dev: Prideful SlothPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Grow your own worlds and nurture a deep natural connection with everything they hold. See your actions change the world for better! Bring the Evertree back to life in this breathtaking world-crafting sandbox, with life management and adventure elements.
Why similar: Farming Sim 28.1%, Agriculture 27.2% ★, Sandbox 11.3%, Open World 10.2%, Management 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on world-building and environmental restoration, perfect for players who enjoy the nurturing aspects of the seed game.
- #27 Havendock
79% matchVery Positive80% of 1,861 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 10.5 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 21% ★, Farming Sim 17.8%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Resource Management 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy colony-sim that focuses on building and managing a settlement on the ocean, emphasizing resource collection.
- #28 StarRupture
77% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 26.3% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Co-op 8.1%
- #29 The Last Caretaker
77% matchVery Positive85% of 9,793 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 30.9 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 17.7%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 11%, Open World 10.2%, Survival 10%
- #30 CryoFall
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 6,397 reviews2021
Dev: AtomicTorch StudioPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.4% ★, Agriculture 17.8% ★, Mechs 16.6% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that emphasizes base building and technological progression in a persistent world.
- #31 FOUNDRY
78% 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: Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 13.9%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Resource Management 13.1%, Sandbox 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation and base-building game that allows for massive scale construction on an alien planet.
- #32 Hydroneer
78% matchVery Positive86% of 27,097 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Base Building 25.8%, Resource Management 16.1%, Sandbox 15.2%, Co-op 14.6%, Open World 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the satisfying mechanics of mining and resource management in a sandbox environment.
- #33 Blossom: The Seed of Life
75% 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: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Agriculture 15% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.2%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #34 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
76% matchVery Positive91% of 7,161 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #35 ASTROBOTANICA
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 80 reviews2026
Dev: Space Goblin Studio
Windows
Science-driven survival with a relaxing vibe. Farming, base building, crafting, animal taming, 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 30.9% ★, Farming Sim 20.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 8.4%, Open World 8.3%
- #36 Skyformer
73% matchVery Positive90% of 59 reviews2025
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
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!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 12.8%, Resource Management 9.4%, Survival 8.4%
- #37 My Time at Portia
74% matchVery Positive92% of 44,040 reviews2019
Dev: Pathea GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 36.1 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 30.6%, Agriculture 22% ★, Crafting 16.8%, Open World 11.7%, Sandbox 7%
- #38 Prospector
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 149 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 22.6% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 12.9%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #39 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,643 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 31.3% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 8.3%
- #40 Surviving Ceres
72% matchVery Positive87% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Farming Sim 22%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 16.2%, Survival 10.8%, Management 9.8%
- #41 Stationeers
74% matchVery Positive88% of 8,897 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 81.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Base Building 18.9%, Crafting 15.5%, Resource Management 14.6%, Sandbox 11.5%, Management 11%
- #42 Farmington County: The Ultimate Farming Tycoon Simulator
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 111 reviews2019
Dev: Grenoble Interactive, LLC
Windows · Mac
Farming & town living sim. Develop the farm of your dreams using tools, tractors, trucks & other vehicles. Build cabins, sheds, barns, and more! Hire workers to help out in your farm. Grow thousands of crops, raise hundreds of livestock and explore the world of Farmington County!
Why similar: Farming Sim 27.4%, Agriculture 25.8% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Open World 7.2%, Resource Management 6.9%
- #43 One Lonely Outpost
72% matchMixed59% of 638 reviews2025
Dev: indie.io
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 27.1%, Agriculture 25.6% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #44 XenoHaven
70% matchVery Positive86% of 64 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 28.7% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 11.2%, Open World 10.5%
- #45 Global Farmer
71% matchMixed50% of 135 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Farm the world in an immersive top-down management game that lets you choose your farm's location anywhere on the real-world map! Want to experience a rich strawberry harvest in the French countryside? Or challenge the hot sun in South America? The choice is yours!
Why similar: Agriculture 26.3% ★, Farming Sim 21.4%, Resource Management 12%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 9.7%
- #46 Planetaries
71% matchMixed59% of 222 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 7.5%
- #47 Forager
71% matchVery Positive90% of 43,003 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.3 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 32.5% ★, Farming Sim 14.5%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 8.3%, Base Building 7.7%
- #48 Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 44,721 reviews2023
Dev: Toxic DogPub: Excalibur Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 29.6%, Online Co-Op 18.9%, Open World 12%, Co-op 10.8%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #49 Farming Simulator 25
68% matchVery Positive86% of 49,322 reviews2024
Dev: GIANTS Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 33.1 hrsMean: 108.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 49.4%, Online Co-Op 14.6%, Management 12.8%, Relaxing 8.5%, First-Person 8.1%
- #50 Outpath
69% 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!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.4% ★, Farming Sim 17.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #51 Cubic Odyssey
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,483 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 30.6% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Sandbox 9.5%, Co-op 9.3%, Crafting 6.8%
- #52 Abiotic Factor
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 52,861 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 42.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Online Co-Op 13%, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 8.7%
- #53 Horizon Journey
69% matchMostly Negative25% of 81 reviews2026
Dev: Redivided Studios
Windows
Embark on an epic adventure to Mars in Horizon Journey, an open-world survival game that blends colonization, terraforming, and exploration in both single-player and multiplayer co-op modes. You're tasked with the monumental challenge of making Mars a new home for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.4%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #54 Astrometica
67% matchVery Positive83% of 2,970 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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% ★, Crafting 15.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 11.1%
- #55 Planetary Planter
70% matchVery Positive87% of 52 reviews2022
Dev: Odd Gryphon EntertainmentPub: Earthbreak Games LLC
Windows
Planetary Planter is an open-world farming game where, instead of farming normal plants, you grow celestial bodies while exploring an alien world.
Why similar: Farming Sim 36.7%, Agriculture 28% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Exploration 7.9%, Open World 5.5%
- #56 Farm Together
67% matchVery Positive94% of 22,015 reviews2018
Dev: Milkstone Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 138.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in this unique, relaxing farming experience!
Why similar: Agriculture 39.9% ★, Farming Sim 22.6%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Co-op 8.4%, Relaxing 7.6%
- #57 Among Trees
68% matchMixed68% of 2,216 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 32.3% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 8.8%, Open World 8.3%
- #58 Russian Village Simulator on Mars
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 68 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 21.3% ★, Open World Survival Craft 19.1% ★, Farming Sim 15.6%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 8.8%
- #59 Under A New Sun
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 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 36.2% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 9.3%
