- #1 The Planet Crafter
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 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% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Crafting 9.1%, Resource Management 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the core loop of terraforming an alien planet and building a base to survive in a hostile but beautiful environment.
- #2 Satisfactory
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 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%, Open World Survival Craft 15.2% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Resource Management 11.1%, Open World 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: If you enjoy the mech-based resource gathering and large-scale construction of Lightyear Frontier, this game provides a deeper dive into automation and factory building.
- #3 ASTRONEER
96% matchVery Positive92% of 137,959 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.2 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 33.7% ★, Base Building 13%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game captures the same sense of wonder in exploring vibrant, colorful alien worlds while gathering resources and building modular bases.
- #4 Wildmender
95% matchVery Positive84% of 2,150 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.4 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 20.6% ★, Agriculture 17% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the restorative aspect of farming and gardening in a harsh desert environment, mirroring the peaceful nature of Lightyear Frontier.
- #5 Dinkum
94% matchVery Positive92% of 28,725 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 28.7 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 27.9% ★, Agriculture 22.9% ★, Farming Sim 14.8%, Crafting 7.6%, Online Co-Op 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game captures the relaxing, community-focused farming and building aspects of the seed game in a charming, open-world setting.
- #6 Slime Rancher 2
94% matchVery Positive94% of 48,178 reviews2025
Dev: Monomi Park
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 24.9 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 35%, Relaxing 29.9%, First-Person 19.2%, Atmospheric 9.5%, Singleplayer 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly cozy, non-violent experience focused on exploring a strange alien land and managing a farm for exotic creatures.
- #7 Techtonica
93% matchMixed65% of 3,202 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.2 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 17.9%, Online Co-Op 14.2%, Resource Management 12.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Sandbox 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Set on an alien planet, this game emphasizes base building and resource management within a beautiful, bioluminescent underground world.
- #8 Nova Lands
92% matchVery Positive89% of 3,422 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.3 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 25.6% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Farming Sim 12.8%, Crafting 10%, Resource Management 10%
Why You'll Like It: It combines exploration, base building, and automation with a cozy aesthetic that feels very similar to the gameplay loop of Lightyear Frontier.
- #9 TerraTech Worlds
91% matchMixed63% of 2,228 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.9 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 30.1% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 12.3%, Sandbox 9.2%, Co-op 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It allows for deep customization of vehicles and mechs, which is perfect for players who enjoy upgrading their gear in Lightyear Frontier.
- #10 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
90% matchVery Positive85% of 4,559 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% ★, Open World Survival Craft 17.1% ★, Farming Sim 17%, Crafting 9.7%, Base Building 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a low-stress survival experience centered on building a cozy home on a rooftop in a post-apocalyptic city.
- #11 No Man's Sky
91% matchVery Positive85% of 406,987 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 41.7% ★, Open World 12.8%, Survival 8%, Sandbox 7.7%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers unparalleled freedom in exploring alien planets, gathering resources, and constructing custom bases across a vast galaxy.
- #12 My Time at Sandrock
89% matchVery Positive88% of 28,550 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 39.4 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 44.9%, Crafting 23.2%, Sandbox 17.1%, Open World 13.4%, Singleplayer 1.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the role of a builder using machinery to help a community thrive, blending farming, crafting, and exploration.
- #13 Forever Skies
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 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 25.2% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Co-op 8.8%, Resource Management 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique high-tech airship base that you must maintain and upgrade while exploring a ruined, alien-like Earth.
- #14 Eden Crafters
88% matchVery Positive86% of 2,425 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 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 27.6% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 11%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Sandbox 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the technical side of base building and terraforming, perfect for players who enjoy the resource management of the seed game.
- #15 Core Keeper
86% matchVery Positive93% of 64,481 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 34.1 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 23.8% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.3%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It features a rewarding loop of exploration, farming, and base building within a mysterious, procedurally generated underground world.
- #16 Astro Colony
87% matchVery Positive82% of 2,526 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 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 31.5%, Resource Management 20.6%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 10%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on building and automating a space colony, providing a similar sense of progression and resource management.
- #17 Hydroneer
86% matchVery Positive86% of 27,793 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 21.9 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 26.1%, Resource Management 15.7%, Sandbox 15.2%, Co-op 14.8%, Open World 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on the satisfaction of using heavy machinery and tools to extract resources and build complex structures.
- #18 FOUNDRY
85% matchVery Positive81% of 3,779 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 46.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 16.6%, Crafting 14%, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Resource Management 12.8%, Sandbox 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory-building game set in a voxel-based world that emphasizes exploration and large-scale construction.
- #19 Outpath
84% matchVery Positive93% of 2,948 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 22.8% ★, Farming Sim 17.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Resource Management 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a relaxing, clicker-inspired survival experience focused on gathering, crafting, and building at your own pace.
- #20 Breathedge
83% matchVery Positive82% of 16,224 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 35.9% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 9.1%, Survival 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: An ironic survival game set in space that features base building and resource gathering with a focus on exploration.
- #21 Scrapnaut
84% matchMixed70% of 827 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 24.6% ★, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Co-op 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It features a top-down perspective on survival and base building with a focus on crafting and managing resources.
- #22 Stationeers
82% matchVery Positive88% of 9,014 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 83.9 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: Agriculture 22.1% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 12.1%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sandbox 9%
Why You'll Like It: For players who want a more technical challenge, this game offers complex base building and resource management in space.
- #23 Havendock
81% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,898 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 10.4 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 21.1% ★, Farming Sim 17.9%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.3%, Resource Management 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on building a thriving colony on the ocean, offering a mix of management and relaxing exploration.
- #24 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
82% matchVery Positive92% of 7,920 reviews2019
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 47.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 63.1% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Crafting 11.8%, Co-op 4.7%, Open World 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: It excels at combining creative block-based building with farming and questing in a charming, cozy atmosphere.
- #25 Roots of Pacha
79% matchVery Positive94% of 4,441 reviews2023
Dev: Soda Den
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 27.4%, Agriculture 23.3% ★, Online Co-Op 14%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a relaxing farming and community-building experience that feels very similar to the cozy aspects of the seed game.
- #26 StarRupture
77% matchVery Positive81% of 12,313 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 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 26.6% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Co-op 8.1%
- #27 Farworld Pioneers
81% matchMostly Negative38% of 693 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 24.9% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 10.4%, Co-op 10%, Online Co-Op 10%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines colony management with space exploration and base building, providing a similar sense of expansion.
- #28 Roboplant
80% matchMixed65% of 81 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 24.6% ★, Farming Sim 23.2%, Resource Management 11.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 10%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the automation of farming and resource management, which is a key component of the seed game's loop.
- #29 Grow: Song of the Evertree
79% matchVery Positive81% of 2,549 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 27.3% ★, Sandbox 11.3%, Open World 10.2%, Management 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the restorative power of gardening and world-building, capturing the peaceful spirit of Lightyear Frontier.
- #30 Subnautica
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 365,018 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 39.3 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 36.9% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 10.2%, Open World 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on survival, it offers an incredible sense of exploration and base building on a beautiful, dangerous alien planet.
- #31 Blossom: The Seed of Life
76% matchVery Positive89% of 884 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 25.5% ★, Agriculture 14.9% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.2%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #32 Occupy Mars: The Game
77% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,070 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.4 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: Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 12.5%, Resource Management 11.9%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #33 CryoFall
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,430 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 21.6% ★, 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 technology progression on a distant planet.
- #34 Cowboy Life Simulator
76% matchVery Positive90% of 1,162 reviews2025
Dev: Odd QubitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
“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 21.3% ★, Farming Sim 20.7%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #35 The Last Caretaker
75% matchVery Positive86% of 11,047 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 32.0 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 15.8%, Crafting 13.6%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Management 9.2%
- #36 Aloft
75% matchVery Positive84% of 3,576 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 24.9% ★, Agriculture 18.2% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Co-op 10.1%, Survival 9.2%
- #37 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
74% matchVery Positive91% of 7,431 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 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 28.3% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #38 Outbound
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,416 reviews2026
Dev: Square Glade Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.3 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 24.7% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #39 Out of Ore
74% matchVery Positive86% of 3,925 reviews2022
Dev: North Modding Company AB
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 40.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A casual heavy equipment experience. Mine ore, Move dirt, Build and repair.
Why similar: Farming Sim 25.6%, Sandbox 12.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Management 8%
- #40 Skyformer
73% matchVery Positive87% of 67 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 31.3% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 12.7%, Resource Management 9.2%, Survival 8.4%
- #41 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,680 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 31.6% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 8.3%
- #42 Cubic Odyssey
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,584 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 34.8% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 10.1%, Co-op 10%, Sci-fi 7.1%
- #43 Farm Together
72% matchVery Positive94% of 22,047 reviews2018
Dev: Milkstone Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.0 hrsMean: 139.8 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 22.7%, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Co-op 8.4%, Relaxing 7.6%
- #44 ASTROBOTANICA
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 86 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 34.8% ★, Farming Sim 23.9%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 7%, Survival 5.6%
- #45 Prospector
71% matchMostly Positive71% 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 22.9% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 12.7%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #46 Surviving Ceres
70% matchVery Positive87% of 138 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 16.3%, Crafting 16.1%, Survival 10.9%, Management 9.6%
- #47 Farmington County: The Ultimate Farming Tycoon Simulator
73% 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 27.5%, Agriculture 25.9% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Open World 7.3%, Resource Management 6.7%
- #48 XenoHaven
70% 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 12.1%, Sandbox 11.1%, Open World 10.6%
- #49 Planetaries
71% matchMixed58% of 223 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 27.2% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 7.5%
- #50 Outpath: First Journey
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,694 reviews2022
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. 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 25.2% ★, Farming Sim 21%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 12.5%, Resource Management 11.8%
- #51 Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 45,769 reviews2023
Dev: Toxic DogPub: Excalibur Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.3 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 15.6%, Co-op 11%, Sandbox 10.9%, Management 10.5%
- #52 Farming Simulator 22
68% matchVery Positive93% of 91,118 reviews2021
Dev: Giants Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 34.4 hrsMean: 148.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Create your farm and let the good times grow! Harvest crops, tend to animals, manage productions, and take on seasonal challenges.
Why similar: Agriculture 26.7% ★, Farming Sim 25%, Co-op 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Management 8.6%
- #53 Farming Simulator 25
66% matchVery Positive87% of 52,248 reviews2024
Dev: GIANTS Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 32.9 hrsMean: 111.4 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 14.9%, Management 12.8%, Relaxing 8.5%, First-Person 8%
- #54 Astrometica
67% matchVery Positive83% of 3,055 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 17.3 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 20.2% ★, Crafting 15.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Open World 11.2%, Survival 11.1%
- #55 Global Farmer
69% matchMixed49% of 141 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 26.4% ★, Farming Sim 21.5%, Resource Management 11.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 9.6%
- #56 Abiotic Factor
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 55,118 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 19.6 hrsMean: 43.9 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 29.6% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 8.7%
- #57 My Time at Portia
67% matchVery Positive92% of 44,122 reviews2019
Dev: Pathea GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 36.0 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 30.7%, Agriculture 22% ★, Crafting 16.8%, Open World 11.8%, Sandbox 7%
- #58 Horizon Journey
68% matchMostly Negative26% of 85 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 25.8% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #59 Star Crafter
66% 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.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 13%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 6.6%
