- #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 25.4% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Crafting 9%, Co-op 7%
Why You'll Like It: Like Lightyear Frontier, this game focuses on terraforming a desolate planet through exploration and base-building without the pressure of combat.
- #2 ASTRONEER
96% matchVery Positive92% of 139,015 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.6 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 34% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the same sense of wonder through vibrant, colorful alien exploration and terrain manipulation in a space-themed setting.
- #3 Wildmender
96% 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: Open World Survival Craft 20.9% ★, Farming Sim 20.7%, Agriculture 17% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares the cozy, nature-focused farming and restoration mechanics found in Lightyear Frontier.
- #4 Forever Skies
95% 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 25.6% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 11%, Co-op 8.8%, Resource Management 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It features a high-tech, mobile base-building experience that mirrors the feeling of managing a home while exploring a sci-fi world.
- #5 Outbound
94% 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 25% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This cozy exploration game focuses on modular base-building and renewable energy, perfectly matching the relaxing vibe of Lightyear Frontier.
- #6 Dinkum
94% 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: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Agriculture 22.9% ★, Farming Sim 14.7%, Crafting 7.6%, Online Co-Op 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a relaxing, community-focused farming and base-building experience that feels very similar to the homesteading aspect of the seed game.
- #7 Satisfactory
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 278,339 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 112.6 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 21.2%, Open World Survival Craft 15.5% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Resource Management 10.6%, Open World 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: While more industrial, it offers the same satisfying loop of exploring a beautiful alien world to gather resources and build massive structures.
- #8 Aloft
92% matchVery Positive84% of 3,682 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 14.3 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 25.1% ★, Agriculture 18.2% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Co-op 10.1%, Survival 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: The focus on gliding between floating islands and building a custom base provides a similar sense of freedom and exploration.
- #9 Solarpunk™
91% 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 22.4% ★, Farming Sim 13.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 9%, Online Co-Op 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes sustainable technology and cozy base-building in a bright, optimistic world that echoes the tone of Lightyear Frontier.
- #10 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
91% matchVery Positive85% of 4,645 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 19.5% ★, Open World Survival Craft 17.3% ★, Farming Sim 16.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the relaxing, low-stress side of survival and base-building in a unique, overgrown setting.
- #11 Eden Crafters
89% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 28.1% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Online Co-Op 9%, Sandbox 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep focus on automation and terraforming, allowing players to reshape their environment much like in the seed game.
- #12 Nova Lands
90% matchVery Positive89% of 3,518 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 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 26% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Farming Sim 12.7%, Crafting 10%, Resource Management 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This title blends automation and exploration with a charming, cozy aesthetic that feels right at home for fans of the genre.
- #13 Farm Together
89% matchVery Positive94% of 22,105 reviews2018
Dev: Milkstone Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.2 hrsMean: 142.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in this unique, relaxing farming experience!
Why similar: Agriculture 40.2% ★, Farming Sim 22.6%, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Co-op 8.4%, Relaxing 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: If you enjoy the agricultural side of Lightyear Frontier, this game provides a pure, relaxing farming experience with endless customization.
- #14 StarRupture
86% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 27% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Co-op 8%
Why You'll Like It: This game features base-building and exploration on a dynamic alien planet, focusing on survival and resource gathering.
- #15 Havendock
87% 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 21.3% ★, Farming Sim 17.9%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10.3%, Resource Management 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, management-heavy game that focuses on building a thriving base on the water, offering a similar sense of progression.
- #16 TerraTech Worlds
88% matchMixed63% of 2,287 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 30.4% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 9.1%, Co-op 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: The ability to build and customize your own vehicles for exploration and resource gathering is a direct parallel to the mech-building in Lightyear Frontier.
- #17 Astro Colony
86% matchVery Positive81% of 2,699 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.2 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 31.9%, Resource Management 19.6%, Crafting 15.5%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game allows you to build and manage a space-faring colony, focusing on resource management and expansion.
- #18 Roboplant
85% matchMixed65% of 83 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 25% ★, Farming Sim 23.2%, Resource Management 11.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the agricultural and management aspects of farming, specifically tailored for a cozy, sci-fi setting.
- #19 FOUNDRY
83% matchVery Positive81% of 3,918 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 16.7%, Crafting 14%, Online Co-Op 13%, Resource Management 12.4%, Sandbox 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that encourages exploration and large-scale construction in a vast, alien landscape.
- #20 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
82% matchVery Positive91% of 7,602 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 28.8% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Resource Management 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a focused experience on building and terraforming within an aquatic alien environment.
- #21 Scrapnaut
84% matchMixed70% of 837 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 24.9% ★, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Co-op 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game with a focus on building and exploration that maintains a manageable difficulty level.
- #22 Occupy Mars: The Game
82% matchMixed70% of 3,132 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Resource Management 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a realistic take on Mars exploration, focusing heavily on base-building and resource management.
- #23 The Last Caretaker
81% 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: Base Building 16%, Crafting 13.8%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 9.7%, Open World 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a blend of survival and base-building that rewards players for managing their resources effectively.
- #24 Island Beekeeper
81% 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 28.1% ★, Farming Sim 17.4%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 8.6%, Co-op 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, nature-focused simulation game that emphasizes farming and exploration on a peaceful island.
- #25 Farworld Pioneers
84% matchMostly Negative38% of 701 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 25.3% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 10.4%, Co-op 10%, Online Co-Op 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It combines colony management with exploration and survival, offering a similar loop of settling on a new world.
- #26 Blossom: The Seed of Life
80% matchVery Positive88% of 1,019 reviews2026
Dev: Pebbledust GamesPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 25.9% ★, Agriculture 14.9% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.1%, Resource Management 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the exploration of alien landscapes and the survival mechanics needed to thrive in them.
- #27 Skyformer
79% matchVery Positive83% of 87 reviews2026
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! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 10.7%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Co-op 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on automation and base-building in a high-altitude setting, providing a unique twist on the genre.
- #28 Cowboy Life Simulator
78% 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 21.4% ★, Farming Sim 20.5%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a grounded farming and exploration experience that shares the homesteading spirit of the seed game.
- #29 Stationeers
79% matchVery Positive88% of 9,229 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 85.3 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: Agriculture 22.3% ★, Base Building 15%, Crafting 12.1%, Resource Management 10.8%, Sandbox 9%
Why You'll Like It: While more complex, it offers the ultimate space-based base-building and resource management experience for those who want more depth.
- #30 Prospector
77% matchMixed70% of 152 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 23.3% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 12.1%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #31 Breathedge
77% matchVery Positive81% of 17,661 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 36.3% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 9.2%, Sandbox 9.1%, Survival 8.5%
- #32 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,709 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 32% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 8.4%
- #33 XenoHaven
75% matchVery Positive86% of 69 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 29% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 11%, Open World 10.7%
- #34 Astrometica
74% matchVery Positive83% of 3,181 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 20.5% ★, Crafting 15.2%, Base Building 15.1%, Open World 11.4%, Survival 11.2%
- #35 Farmington County: The Ultimate Farming Tycoon Simulator
78% 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 26.1% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Open World 7.4%, Resource Management 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward farming simulation that caters to players who enjoy the agricultural management aspect of Lightyear Frontier.
- #36 Planetaries
76% matchMixed58% of 226 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 27.6% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Online Co-Op 11%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 7.6%
- #37 SpaceCraft
73% matchMixed65% of 2,687 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 47.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Base Building 17.7%, Crafting 15.1%, Sandbox 12.3%, Resource Management 12.1%, Open World 11.6%
- #38 CryoFall
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,462 reviews2021
Dev: AtomicTorch StudioPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 16.3 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 21.8% ★, Agriculture 17.7% ★, Mechs 16.7% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 9.7%
- #39 Surviving Ceres
73% matchVery Positive87% of 139 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 21.9%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 16.1%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 9.7%
- #40 Farm to Table
71% 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Farming Sim 20.1%, Agriculture 20% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #41 Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 47,912 reviews2023
Dev: Toxic DogPub: Excalibur Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.6 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 27.3%, Online Co-Op 15.5%, Co-op 11%, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 10.6%
- #42 Global Farmer
74% matchMixed48% of 143 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 26.7% ★, Farming Sim 21.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 11.4%, Management 9.4%
- #43 Smart Farm
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 62 reviews2026
Dev: ZD Games
Windows
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 31%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 16.2%, Resource Management 13.8%, Sandbox 8%
- #44 Farming Simulator 25
69% matchVery Positive87% of 57,234 reviews2024
Dev: GIANTS Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 32.3 hrsMean: 117.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 49.5%, Online Co-Op 15%, Management 12.6%, Relaxing 8.5%, First-Person 7.9%
- #45 Horizon Journey
71% matchMostly Negative25% of 88 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 26.1% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 11.2%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Sandbox 8%
- #46 Under A New Sun
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 400 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 36.6% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 9.5%, Survival 9.5%
- #47 Scrap Mechanic
65% 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: Crafting 19.3%, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 15.4%, Open World 13.6%, Survival 13.1%
- #48 Among Trees
71% 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 33% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 10.2%, Survival 8.8%, Open World 8.4%
- #49 Russian Village Simulator on Mars
69% 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 21.3% ★, Open World Survival Craft 19.6% ★, Farming Sim 15.5%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 8.7%
- #50 Star Crafter
68% matchMixed70% of 106 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.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 12.9%, Resource Management 11%, Sandbox 6.5%
- #51 ASTROBOTANICA
68% matchMixed68% of 98 reviews2026
Dev: Space Goblin Studio
Windows
Science-driven exploration adventure on prehistoric Earth with a relaxing vibe. Farming, crafting, 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 35.2% ★, Farming Sim 23.6%, Base Building 8.7%, Crafting 7%, Survival 5.6%
- #52 Life Not Supported
70% matchMixed67% of 173 reviews2023
Dev: YETIBYTES
Windows · Linux
You are the lone survivor orbiting a potential new home planet, tethered to what’s left of your ship. Gather nearby debris and assemble a make-shift vessel in an attempt to survive the harsh realities of space. Maybe you'll live long enough to uncover the truth behind the ship's malfunction...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #53 Cubic Odyssey
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,720 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 35.1% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Sandbox 10%, Co-op 10%, Sci-fi 7.2%
- #54 Techtonica
68% matchMixed65% of 3,253 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 18.2%, Online Co-Op 14.1%, Crafting 12.4%, Resource Management 12.1%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #55 The Ranchers
67% matchMixed58% of 608 reviews2026
Dev: The RanchersPub: Trophy Games Publishing ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Agriculture 29.8% ★, Farming Sim 27.4%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 8.9%, Open World 7.9%
- #56 Volcanoids
69% matchVery Positive83% of 9,332 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 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: Base Building 17%, Crafting 14.9%, Online Co-Op 12%, Sandbox 10.6%, Co-op 10.3%
- #57 Animalkind
66% 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: Mechs 26.1% ★, Farming Sim 20.1%, Crafting 12.3%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #58 Abiotic Factor
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 58,426 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 20.8 hrsMean: 46.1 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 29.9% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 8.8%
- #59 Outworld Station
64% matchVery Positive85% of 841 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Base Building 22.1%, Crafting 14.9%, Co-op 12.4%, Sandbox 11.5%, Management 10.8%
