- #1 Decision: Red Daze
97% matchMostly Positive74% of 880 reviews2022
Dev: FlyAnvilPub: Nordcurrent Labs
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Decision: Red Daze is an action RPG with a unique mix of survival and tower defense mechanics. Explore an apocalyptic wasteland, build a safe haven, and lead your team of specialists in a hopeless world, searching for a cure for the infectious disease that turns people into monsters.
Why similar: Tower Defense 15.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 11.2%, Isometric 10.6%, Action RPG 10%
- #2 Lumencraft
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,273 reviews2023
Dev: 2Dynamic GamesPub: Star Drifters
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Lumencraft is a unique combination of a top-down, rogue-like shooter and base building with tower defense elements. Dig and light up dark halls of a fully destructible environment on procedurally generated maps and campaign levels to find precious Lumen - humanity's only chance for survival.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.1%, Base Building 16.9%, Action RPG 14.7%, Sandbox 13%, Survival 10.5%
- #3 The Riftbreaker
96% matchVery Positive90% of 23,789 reviews2021
Dev: EXOR Studios
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 17.1%, Tower Defense 16%, Isometric 11.3%, Action RPG 8.7%, Crafting 8.7%
- #4 Outpost: Infinity Siege
95% matchMixed65% of 13,570 reviews2024
Dev: Team RangerPub: Lightning Games
Windows
Median: 16.5 hrsMean: 41.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Command Mobile Outpost and take XEN Firearm to venture deep into the Signet surveillance off-limit area. Collect unique Weapon Units. Amp up the firepower of the Outpost that fights with you. This is an FTD game - FPS, Tower Defense, Base Building and much more all at the same time.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.1%, Base Building 18%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Resource Management 13.1%, Crafting 11.2%
- #5 Mindustry
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 26,625 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 27.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.8%, Base Building 24%, Resource Management 16.6%, Building 10%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #6 Survive the Fall
94% matchMixed69% of 663 reviews2025
Dev: Angry Bulls StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.
Why similar: Base Building 15.5%, Isometric 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Crafting 11.3%, Resource Management 11%
- #7 Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
93% matchMostly Positive73% of 618 reviews2024
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.
Why similar: Tower Defense 14.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 11.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%
- #8 Tower Factory
92% matchVery Positive89% of 1,199 reviews2024
Dev: Gius Caminiti
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?
Why similar: Tower Defense 16.5%, Action RTS 14.2% ★, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 9.1%, Isometric 8.9%
- #9 Survival Machine
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 687 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.7%, Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 14.8%, Resource Management 13.3%, Survival 11%
- #10 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: Base Building 21.3%, Crafting 15.3%, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 12.8%, Survival 12.6%
- #11 TerraTech
90% matchVery Positive91% of 24,617 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 33.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Why similar: Building 24.8%, Sandbox 19.1%, Crafting 16.5%, Open World 15.5%, Survival 11.5%
- #12 The Last Caretaker
88% 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 16.1%, Crafting 12.7%, Resource Management 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Survival 10.7%
- #13 Mechanic Miner
89% matchMixed58% of 210 reviews2020
Dev: Hello John
Windows
Put your mechanical skills to the test in a physics-based sandbox where ingenuity and creativity are the ultimate key to survival. Construct fantastical machines, gather resources, acquire new technologies to battle dangerous enemies and use your imagination to shape your world.
Why similar: Crafting 25.3%, Building 24.8%, Sandbox 20.6%, Resource Management 13.4%, RPG 6.2%
- #14 Badlands Crew - Drive, Command, Conquer
87% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,189 reviews2025
Dev: Runner DuckPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Create, customize and command your battle wagon to conquer crazed enemy factions and save innocent survivors scattered throughout the lawless Badlands in the aftermath of a devastating apocalypse. Do you have what it takes to Build, Evolve and Fight to survive?
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.3%, Building 21.8%, Sandbox 15.6%, Open World 14.2%, Strategy 9.5%
- #15 FortressCraft Evolved!
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,057 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Crafting 16.3%, Building 14.8%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 14%, Survival 11.3%
- #16 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
86% matchVery Positive84% of 2,228 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Why similar: Building 23%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 13.7%, Crafting 12.3%, Sandbox 11.4%
- #17 The Last Haven
86% matchMixed61% of 1,529 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Base Building 24.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Survival 10.6%, Strategy 10.4%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #18 The Riftbreaker: Prologue
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 4,121 reviews2020
Dev: EXOR Studios
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 48%
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Why similar: Base Building 15.8%, Tower Defense 14.1%, Isometric 12.3%, Survival 9.6%, Action RPG 9.2%
- #19 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
85% matchVery Positive81% of 2,253 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Base Building 19.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #20 Beyond the Map
83% matchMostly Positive78% of 691 reviews2025
Dev: Glitch Goblins
Windows
Isometric survival ARPG set in a procedurally generated fantasy world. Build your base, gear up, and venture out, chasing stronger enemies and better loot.
Why similar: Isometric 18.4%, Base Building 16.8%, Action RPG 12%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 9.2%
- #21 Ash & Adam's Existential Treads
82% matchVery Positive92% of 306 reviews2026
Dev: Ash & Adam's Games
Windows · Mac
A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.9%, Base Building 19.6%, Building 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%, Management 8.7%
- #22 Post-Apo Builder
84% matchMixed42% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Septarian GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.
Why similar: Base Building 21.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Building 15.4%, Sandbox 13.2%, Crafting 10.9%
- #23 World Crafter TD
82% matchMixed46% of 623 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 32%
A highly addictive survival crafting tower defense game! Gather, craft, build turrets, shoot guns, and expand the land to defend against waves of enemies in World Crafter TD!
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.7%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 12.9%, Resource Management 12.1%, Survival 9.2%
- #24 Beacon of Neyda
81% matchVery Positive90% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Ghost Creative Studio
Windows · Linux
In a world where a robot revolution failed, the last humans search for a way to survive and escape. Beacon of Neyda is a side-scrolling action-strategy game where you must survive waves of enemies while creating and upgrading your base as you explore a world in ruins.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.9%, Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.5%
- #25 Wasted World
81% matchMixed65% of 78 reviews2020
Dev: Achrony
Windows
The apocalypse has come, brought by pollution, wars and disease! Your mission is to save your land... or what’s left of it. Alone or with your friends gather, recycle, craft, build, plant, explore, fight & help survivors.
Why similar: RPG 15.8%, Simulation 12.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 8.2%, Post-apocalyptic 8.1%
- #26 Ascent of Ashes
78% matchMostly Positive70% of 298 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Why similar: Base Building 16.9%, Isometric 13.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 11.8%, Survival 11.1%
- #27 After the Collapse
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Base Building 20.5%, Survival 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Management 12%, Sandbox 11.4%
- #28 Armed to the Gears
80% matchMixed63% of 215 reviews2020
Dev: Deonn Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Control a fully armed Mech and fight through cyberpunk cities, military bases and industrial ruins. Capture and defend territories, build turrets and structures, and wage war against powerful enemies!
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.5%, Base Building 22.4%, Isometric 20.8%, Post-apocalyptic 18.8%, Strategy 2.5%
- #29 CleanFall
76% matchVery Positive93% of 478 reviews2025
Dev: Humanyoyo
Windows
CleanFall is a survival rogue-like that prizes player freedom and creativity. Build mobile death machines to fight off ravenous hordes, craft and alchemize gun turrets, and tunnel through subterranean ecosystems crawling with nameless horrors.
Why similar: Tower Defense 18.2%, Base Building 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 11.1%
- #30 Project 5: Sightseer
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 545 reviews2019
Dev: Tasharen Entertainment Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 28.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Open world multiplayer sandbox/RPG game. Explore, gather, build, research, and fight to protect what's yours -- by yourself or together with your friends.
Why similar: Building 30.2%, Sandbox 24.4%, RPG 20.5%, Open World 14.7%, Adventure 10.2%
- #31 StarRupture
74% 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: Base Building 24.1%, Crafting 17%, Survival 15.7%, Sandbox 13.6%, Open World 13.1%
- #32 Illuminaria
77% matchVery Positive83% of 76 reviews2022
Dev: Selva Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Why similar: Tower Defense 18.3%, Base Building 18.1%, Resource Management 12.7%, Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.2%
- #33 DYSMANTLE
75% matchVery Positive91% of 11,423 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Base Building 19.9%, Crafting 17.9%, Survival 17.6%, Open World 14.7%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #34 Outerverse
78% matchMixed50% of 125 reviews2022
Dev: Tbjbu2Pub: indie.io
Windows
Build automated machines and weapons across the universe, beat massive bosses, experience cosmic events and explore unique landmarks in this quest driven automation crafting adventure game. Includes a manual scenario for crafting instead of machines for those not a fan of logic/automation!
Why similar: Base Building 20.7%, Crafting 16.5%, Resource Management 15.6%, Management 12.8%, RPG 12.4%
- #35 Craft In Abyss
77% matchVery Positive83% of 54 reviews2021
Dev: FirePillar2
Windows
Craft in Abyss is a tower defense rogue-lite game. It allow players to design their own mechanical fortress, gather resources and continuously strengthen the fortress facilities within a sci-fi world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.1%, Crafting 15.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 13.2%, Survival 12.5%
- #36 Ocean Keeper: Dome Survival
73% matchVery Positive80% of 895 reviews2025
Dev: RetroStyle Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Explore dungeons, fight hordes of monsters and survive on a huge map. This is Ocean Keeper - an action roguelike with tower defense elements. Mine resources in caves, customize your Mech Spider, upgrade different weapons and face dangerous bosses that won't leave you a chance!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 30.8%, Resource Management 30.8%, Combat 18.1%, Exploration 13.5%, Adventure 6.8%
- #37 XERA: Survival
75% matchMixed66% of 7,908 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
Why similar: Base Building 23.3%, Crafting 15.8%, Survival 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Building 11.9%
- #38 Dead District: Survival
76% matchMixed48% of 473 reviews2023
Dev: BadBit Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Open-world survival sandbox with base-building, crafting, farming and multiplayer. Explore a dangerous island, fight, build and stay alive.
Why similar: Base Building 18.3%, Crafting 16.5%, Survival 16%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Sandbox 12.8%
- #39 Human Host
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 166 reviews2026
Dev: Virtual Matrix Studio
Windows
Human Host is an open-world zombie survival crafting game. In this endless procedurally generated world, terrain, buildings, trees, rocks—everything is destructible! Build massive mobile bases, dig deep underground, construct trap-filled fortresses, scavenge supplies, and survive as long as you can!
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.7%, Building 14.9%, Survival 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Sandbox 12.5%
- #40 Cataclismo
71% matchVery Positive89% of 4,143 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
Why similar: Tower Defense 16.8%, Base Building 14.9%, Isometric 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Building 10.6%
- #41 Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,148 reviews2020
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.
Why similar: Crafting 19.1%, Building 15.6%, Sandbox 13.6%, Survival 13.5%, Strategy 12.3%
- #42 AI Olympius
72% matchVery Positive90% of 152 reviews2023
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows
Join the rebels in a third-person shooter with RPG elements and base-building mode. Fight against various combat drone models under the control of the supreme AI.
Why similar: Base Building 35%, Post-apocalyptic 28.7%, Action-Adventure 16.7%, RPG 14.7%, Adventure 4.9%
- #43 Brinefall
74% matchMixed42% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: Qwerty StudioPub: Gamera Interactive
Windows
Embark on an epic journey in Brinefall, where you'll gather resources and construct your own village while exploring a vast open-world filled with secrets and mysteries. Battle fierce enemies and collect valuable loot in this unique blend of sandbox and RPG gameplay.
Why similar: Isometric 14.9%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 10%
- #44 Force of Nature 2: Prologue
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 78 reviews2023
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Force of Nature 2: Prologue is an introduction to the world of the main game. Explore one of the many worlds and uncover its mystery. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Why similar: Isometric 14.3%, Action RPG 10.8%, Crafting 10%, Building 10%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #45 Night of the Dead
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,782 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.1%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 11.6%, Survival 10.4%
- #46 Last Outpost
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: Troyd Games
Windows
Last Outpost is a minimalist Base Building & Strategy game where you build and defend your outpost in zombie apocalypse. Choose your vehicle and loadout before embarking on your adventure. Use your abilities and control your units to eliminate all threats. Will you manage to defend your outpost?
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.8%, Action RTS 23.6% ★, Base Building 19.7%, Isometric 17.4%, Strategy 7.1%
- #47 SurrounDead Poly Construction
70% matchMostly Negative32% of 139 reviews2026
Dev: LivingEveryday
Windows
SurrounDead Poly Construction is an open-world survival adventure game where players will solve puzzles, collect items, and defeat all enemies to reach the end.
Why similar: Base Building 24%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Building 10.4%, Exploration 9.9%, RPG 9.7%
- #48 Volcanoids
70% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 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: Base Building 19.9%, Crafting 16%, Building 14.2%, Sandbox 12.8%, Survival 12.5%
- #49 AutoForge
69% matchVery Positive87% of 457 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Why similar: Base Building 18.5%, Crafting 14.4%, Resource Management 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Building 13.4%
- #50 Start Over
70% matchMixed62% of 377 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?
Why similar: Tower Defense 17%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 10.5%, Survival 10.4%
- #51 The Spotter: Dig or Die
66% matchVery Positive87% of 1,459 reviews2026
Dev: Puppyroar GamesPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Dig by day, fight by night in this blend of mining and Tower Defense. As the last Spotter at a ruined gas station, hold back mutant hordes, scavenge the wasteland, and repair your receiver to capture the President’s vital message and humanity’s last hope.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 11.9%
- #52 Adventure Craft
71% matchVery Positive82% of 225 reviews2017
Dev: Edible Entertainment
Windows
Adventure Craft is a challenging procedurally generated sandbox RPG with roguelike elements. Hunt monsters, horde loot, and craft weapons and armor, to survive in a vast ever-changing RPG world full of action, extreme danger and wonderful surprises.
Why similar: Base Building 19%, Building 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Sandbox 12.8%, Action RPG 12.3%
- #53 GearStorm - Armored Survival
71% matchMixed56% of 82 reviews2019
Dev: Iron City Games
Windows · Mac
GearStorm - Armored Survival is a story-driven, open-world sci-fi survival adventure. Discover what led to the Phage, a deadly virus apocalypse and our escape to a alien world. Explore a vast alien planet, build your base, create your colony, acquire vehicles, weapons, and supplies to defend it.
Why similar: Survival 19.7%, RPG 17.6%, Strategy 15.5%, Open World 15.1%, Simulation 13.8%
- #54 Dust Raiders
67% matchMixed68% of 189 reviews2025
Dev: Vixa GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Dust Raiders is a management strategy game, set in a lawless wasteland. Upgrade your vehicles, engage in tactical fights against raiders hunting for your resources and gather a crew to rule the area.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.6%, Management 21.3%, Combat 11.6%, Strategy 11.3%, Exploration 10.9%
- #55 World Crafter TD: Prologue
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 101 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
A highly addictive survival crafting tower defense game! Gather, craft, build turrets, shoot guns, and expand the land to defend against waves of enemies! The prologue for the full game, World Crafter TD!
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.5%, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 13.6%, Resource Management 12.9%, Survival 9.3%
- #56 Taora : Survival
68% matchMixed61% of 405 reviews2024
Dev: Tulpar Games
Windows
Taora is an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse !
Why similar: Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Action RPG 12%, Survival 11.9%
- #57 Penkura
68% matchVery Positive90% of 196 reviews2018
Dev: LionsArt
Windows
Embark on an odyssey to a distant alien world through an ancient singularity. Establish your base, engineer indispensable bots, create cutting-edge equipment, and unravel the mysteries of civilizations lost in time. Welcome to a universe where the mind has defeated death.
Why similar: Action RTS 21.5% ★, Base Building 17%, Crafting 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Action RPG 9.3%
- #58 Prospector
66% 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: Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 13.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 11%
- #59 Mob Factory
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 477 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.8%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 13%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 8.7%
- #60 Mechanica
68% matchMixed63% of 635 reviews2020
Dev: Deimos Interactive
Windows
Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming. Create your own bases, defenses, manufacturing systems and more. Explore the map and expand the scope and complexity of your creations.
Why similar: Base Building 31.1%, Building 22.8%, Survival 18.9%, Sandbox 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%