- #1 Elsewhere
97% matchVery Positive97% of 87 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.
Why similar: Automation 13.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Open World 8.9%
- #2 Factory Trashcension
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Factory Trashcension
Windows
Factory Trashcension is a first-person open-world factory creation and optimization game with unlimited possibilities. Play with your friends and design efficient factories to TRASHCEND without worries and explore a v a p o r w a v e inspired universe!
Why similar: Automation 18%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 12.2%, Open World 10.4%
- #3 Dao's Cover
96% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Beijing Baidong Technology
Windows
An unconventional post-apocalyptic survival sandbox game. Abandon endless combat and embrace a more authentic living experience in the apocalypse.
Why similar: Sandbox 12.7%, Immersive Sim 12.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 10%
- #4 Pistonica
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cutting Corner Games
Windows
Pistonica is the pure steam and mechanical factory automation game, challenging your resource management skills. Explore the tropical island first-person, research tech, mine for minerals, build contraptions and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Base Building 17.1%, Open World 13%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #5 Satisfactory
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 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: Automation 20.1%, Base Building 19.5%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 12.2%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #6 A Silent Desolation
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SHK Interactive
Windows
Stranded on post-apocalyptic Earth centuries after humanity's exodus, "A Silent Desolation" is a solo survival game developed by one person. Face dangers, craft, explore, and uncover secrets while repairing a shuttle base to escape.
Why similar: Base Building 14.1%, Open World 12.6%, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 12%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%
- #7 The Last Caretaker
93% matchVery Positive86% of 13,935 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 37.4 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: Automation 14%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Open World 10%
- #8 Starvector
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Justus BlairPub: Octopus Inc. Studios
Windows
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
Why similar: Automation 15.8%, Immersive Sim 14.1%, Sandbox 13%, Crafting 10.8%, Base Building 10.6%
- #9 Belts of Iron
91% matchVery Positive87% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
Why similar: Automation 17.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 11.7%, Sandbox 10%
- #10 Signalfall
91% matchMixed60% of 20 reviews2026
Dev: Fallen Relay
Windows
Crash-land on a hostile planet and build automated extraction outposts to survive. Defend your operations, manage power networks, and send resources to orbit to unlock new technologies.
Why similar: Crafting 14.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Automation 14.4%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #11 Broken World
90% matchMixed61% of 41 reviews2024
Dev: N777
Windows
"Broken World" is an exciting post-apocalyptic low-poly game where players have to survive in a world overrun by zombies and chaos. Build and strengthen your shelters, fight various threats and explore a dangerous world full of secrets and dangers.
Why similar: Base Building 14.1%, Open World 13.9%, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10%
- #12 Sandustry
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Automation 16.4%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 12.4%, Open World 11.4%
- #13 PoliPlanet
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 18%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 11.1%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #14 HORDE Survival
89% matchMostly Negative29% of 28 reviews2023
Dev: WDS Games
Windows
See yourself stuck in the middle of an ever growing virus epidemic. Find or craft weapons and tools to fight against the living and the dead. Build a safe place to survive in this cruel, apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Building 10.2%
- #15 Lost Zone: Survival
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: İlker YelkenPub: Lofwin Games
Windows
Lost Zone: Survival ,Survive in a vast open world by battling harsh conditions, hunger, and unknown threats. Explore with friends, gather resources, fish, farm, and craft tools to stay alive. Beware of other players who can steal your hard-earned loot. Only the strongest will survive!
Why similar: Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 13.8%, Open World 12.3%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #16 The Otherwilde
87% matchMixed55% of 20 reviews2022
Dev: Brass Persimmon
Windows
A gorgeous world of photorealistic natural assets, cute villages, and unexpected NPCs. Explore the open world map, gather herbs, create potions, hunt wild animals, build bases, and farm. Currently Pre-Alpha Early Access.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 15.4%, Open World 14.7%, Sandbox 14.6%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 9.9%
- #17 MoteMancer
85% matchVery Positive92% of 260 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
An alchemical automation game of ever-changing logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element transforms how you generate power, move resources, and defend your factory. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this hex-grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 19.4%, Base Building 16.2%, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 9.7%
- #18 GridCraft
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: hy_studio
Windows
Shape an entire grid-based world with your mouse. Gather, craft, farm, cook, tame animals, automate production, and battle powerful bosses. Every item, machine, and creature is yours to pick up, place, and combine.
Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Crafting 18.5%, Sandbox 15.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 10.2%
- #19 Exot
84% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: PH Networks
Windows
Discover a still unexplored region of space: the Exot galaxy. With your C.L.I.C. as your only ally, obtain the resources necessary for your survival. Develop your ship, improve your workshops, face creatures to conquer these hostile lands.
Why similar: Crafting 16.3%, Sandbox 15.1%, Base Building 15.1%, Open World 12.7%, Building 11.9%
- #20 暴食海岛 Munchy Island
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: clownpiece
Windows
Play as a fennec fox in a survival adventure on an island packed with food! Keep your belly full as you explore the island, build defensive structures, and fend off relentless attacks from monsters of the deep.
Why similar: Base Building 20.3%, Crafting 16.7%, Sandbox 13.4%, Building 13.3%, Survival 8.6%
- #21 Tides of Despair
83% matchMixed42% of 19 reviews2023
Dev: Survival Poly Games
Windows
After a shipwreck, you are one of the survivors. To Survive you will need to fight for your life.
Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, Crafting 16.1%, Open World 15.2%, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 11.8%
- #22 Automation Station
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boxbot Games
Windows
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 19.8%, Base Building 15.1%, Sandbox 14.2%, Crafting 13%, Building 11.1%
- #23 Last of Humanity
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Divine Games, inc.
Windows
Welcome to Last of Humanity, an online open-world sandbox multiplayer zombie survival game. Travel the zombie wasteland as you attempt to rebuild society controlling key locations to manufacture & produce equipment for survival. Forage, Craft and shoot your way to survival from the dead and living.
Why similar: Sandbox 15.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%
- #24 Alterworld
81% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2024
Dev: Poonpoonza
Windows
Explore the infinite world! Play with the fully destructible voxel terrain! Craft and split items! Build and customize a house or any building! And many more! This is the ultimate sandbox survival game where you can do almost anything you can dream!
Why similar: Sandbox 20.9%, Crafting 13.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 10.9%, Open World 9.6%
- #25 Reprocessed
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Macrostructura
Windows
Factory management and sandbox base building in zero-g environment. Survive, expand and then dominate space industrial market. Build large scale resource processing plant completely from nothing.
Why similar: Automation 18%, Base Building 16.9%, Sandbox 13.2%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 10.3%
- #26 Dwarf Land
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Popcorn GameMovia
Windows
Embark on a journey in Dwarf Land, a procedurally generated open world. Master modular building amidst dense forests and towering peaks. Unleash creativity in crafting, hunting, and mining. Discover dwarven culture in a vibrant sandbox simulation. Dwarf Land awaits, a realm of endless possibilities.
Why similar: Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 11.4%, Sandbox 10.7%, Immersive Sim 9%
- #27 Krasnaya Factory
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kickback games
Windows
Produce weapons, automate your production, and complete contracts to gain more money and expand your factory. A war is waging against the aliens. You will need to support the war effort by producing an ever-increasing amount of weapons. And always stay ready to defend your factories.
Why similar: Automation 19.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 16%, Open World 13.4%, Building 10.4%
- #28 Evospace
79% matchVery Positive83% of 392 reviews2019
Dev: Quantum Rivet
Windows · Mac
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
Why similar: Base Building 17%, Crafting 16.4%, Automation 16.2%, Sandbox 13.8%, Open World 12.7%
- #29 DepthWake
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Reversed InteractivePub: Ultimate Games
Windows
Return to an Earth abandoned for over 500 years and explore its transformed oceans in search of vital resources. With supplies on humanity's new home world running dry, you must gather materials, build automated underwater operations, and uncover the secrets that now lie beneath the waves.
Why similar: Automation 17.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 9.9%
- #30 Golemcrafter
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Good Sheep Syndicate
Windows
Golemcrafter is a single-player survival crafting game where you, as a golem, explore a magical world, gather resources, build a base, harness the local wildlife, and craft powerful golems like yourself. Make friends, gain powers!
Why similar: Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 14%, Automation 13.9%, Open World 13.8%, Sandbox 12.1%
- #31 Chocolate Factory
76% matchMixed56% of 152 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
Why similar: Automation 18.4%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 13.9%, Open World 10.2%, Building 9.3%
- #32 Polylithic
73% matchMostly Positive70% of 353 reviews2026
Dev: polyperfectPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go it alone in a world where the apex predator is still a distant aspiration.
Why similar: Base Building 15.4%, Automation 15.1%, Crafting 13.5%, Open World 12.7%, Sandbox 12%
- #33 LithoBreak
77% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Tau Ceti Labs
Windows
LithoBreak is an Early Access industrial survival game rebuilding toward one moon-site loop: boot up the console, build the first site, and help shape a science-driven survival sim.Play with Science
Why similar: Automation 16.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 11.6%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #34 plexum
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Jephinca
Windows
A third-person automation game driven by narrative progression. Build elaborate machines that feed an interplanetary network as you move from planet to planet.
Why similar: Automation 24%, Base Building 17.2%, Building 12.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #35 The Resonance Initiative
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blackfield Studios
Windows
In this open-world factory sandbox you need to harness unique power waveforms to run your machines. Use everything as fuel, from plant life to fallen enemies. Explore the world to uncover new foes and resources to exploit as your empire grows.
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Crafting 16.8%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 11.6%
- #36 Factory Survival
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Roman Software
Windows
Build and create automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 3D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally escape from creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Base Building 17.3%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 9.8%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #37 HIIS
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2021
Dev: Bottled Fantasy Games
Windows
HIIS is an open world sandbox experimentation game, full of mystical vegetation, concealed secrets, and powerful potions. Domesticate the wild plants to farm them, brew elixirs from their products, and experiment to document their effects.
Why similar: Open World 18.8%, Sandbox 18.3%, Crafting 17.1%, Exploration 11%, Magic 8.4%
- #38 Spiritura
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Spiritura Works
Windows · Mac
Spiritura is an atmospheric open-world survival crafting game with light RPG elements, exploration, and base building. Forge your own path through a mysterious, procedurally generated land, utilizing diverse combat skills to survive the threats of the wild as you uncover the secrets of the world.
Why similar: Base Building 16%, Crafting 14.6%, Sandbox 12.6%, Open World 11.5%, Building 7.9%
- #39 Deep Crafter
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 106 reviews2026
Dev: Deep Crafter StudioPub: Samar Studio
Windows
Build a self-sustaining industrial empire in the deep sea of an ocean-covered alien world. Explore procedurally generated waters, automate resource production, and turn alien life into renewable industrial output through advanced bio-cultivation systems.
Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Open World 14.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 11.8%, Immersive Sim 11.1%
- #40 Stranded Deep 2
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: North Beach Games
Windows
Survival is just the beginning. Stranded in a desert wilderness, an endless river is your only lifeline. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and build a floating home to brave the treacherous waters and scorching heat. Every bend brings new danger and deeper discoveries. How far will you go?
Why similar: Open World 19.5%, Base Building 18.5%, Sandbox 18.4%, Crafting 16.9%, Survival 10.6%
- #41 The Planet Crafter
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 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: Base Building 15.8%, Automation 12.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 10.4%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #42 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 208 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits! The free prologue for the full game!
Why similar: Automation 18.9%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 14.2%, Building 9.4%, Open World 8.3%
- #43 Shadow Of The Union: Survival
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ILIASKA
Windows
Fight back against the rebellious machines in an alternative USSR! Join forces in a team of up to 4 players and survive in a dangerous open world. By day, explore and gather resources. By night, defend your base against waves of combat robots!
Why similar: Base Building 14.5%, Open World 14%, Crafting 13.6%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 10.7%
- #44 Dragon Forge
73% matchMixed50% of 114 reviews2022
Dev: Legend Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become a powerful dragon & automate massive factories! Dragon Forge is an incremental base building adventure game. Uncurse & explore a huge fantasy world full of quests. Gather resources & craft upgrades to become unstoppable! Discover over 100 fables of ancient wisdom at the Dragon Forge.
Why similar: Automation 16.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Open World 11.5%, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 9.1%
- #45 Everlost
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: kub3sqtPub: Orivilon
Windows
Stranded in a world that never stops growing. Gather, craft, build and survive in an infinite procedurally generated wilderness where no two worlds are ever the same.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.4%, Crafting 18.5%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 15.3%, Exploration 11.6%
- #46 Factorio
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Base Building 21.8%, Sandbox 12.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #47 DREADZONE
69% matchMixed51% of 1,239 reviews2025
Dev: Eshed
Windows
Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 17.2%, Open World 14.8%, Crafting 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Building 10%
- #48 Fronimus
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: StayOnSofa
Windows
Fronimus is an automation-focused game about building factories, featuring nonlinear step by step progression
Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Open World 15.3%, Sandbox 15%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 11.3%
- #49 Prospector
69% 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: Automation 15.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 12.7%, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 12%
- #50 Bandit the game
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 48 reviews2019
Dev: Adrian Ubiorski
Windows
Bandit the game is an open-world RPG with unique quests, character development, intense combat and interesting exploration. With optional elements: tower defense, city/base building and gang management.
Why similar: Base Building 17.2%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 9.1%
- #51 Cobalt Miner
67% matchMixed44% of 27 reviews2026
Dev: Digital Deer StudioPub: MadOctopus
Windows
Survive in futuristic 2046 USA where a ruthless megacorporation owns your debt. Mine cobalt, automate production, craft machines, explore a dying world, and ride your electric bike across vast pixel-art wastelands. Pay what you owe… or disappear.
Why similar: Automation 18%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 12%, Open World 11.2%
- #52 Unvoided
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alexandre
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mine asteroids and refine resources to build your own spaceship, designing every detail as you balance mass, thrust, and torque. Alone or with a crew, expand your vessel into a self-sustaining mobile factory through automation as you survive the harshness of space.
Why similar: Automation 17.8%, Sandbox 17.2%, Crafting 16.6%, Base Building 15.3%, Open World 14.3%
- #53 Outpost On Syrinx
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 22 reviews2024
Dev: Polychrome Games
Windows
Establish an Outpost on a wondrous alien world. Harvest, craft, build a base for humanity, uncover alien mysteries, and explore strange new lands.
Why similar: Base Building 17.1%, Immersive Sim 16.1%, Crafting 15.7%, Sandbox 15.5%, Building 12.3%
- #54 Lost in Tropics
68% matchNegative9% of 32 reviews2024
Dev: Lukas GameLabsPub: SIG Publishing
Windows
Lost in Tropics: Embark on an unforgettable survival adventure where the lush, unpredictable tropics become your testing ground. In this immersive game, you find yourself stranded on a mysterious island, where every corner hides both breathtaking beauty and perilous challenges.
Why similar: Open World 15.6%, Sandbox 14.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Building 12.1%, Immersive Sim 9.9%
- #55 Cyberpunk Crafter
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hologram Nation
Windows
A cyberpunk open world crafting simulator, immerse yourself in a neon-lit city of your own design. Vibe out while unlocking your way to a spaceport and win your freedom on the interstellar stage.
Why similar: Automation 16.8%, Crafting 15.2%, Immersive Sim 14.3%, Sandbox 13.5%, Base Building 13.5%
- #56 XenoHaven
65% matchVery Positive82% of 73 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: Base Building 17.3%, Open World 15.8%, Sandbox 15.5%, Crafting 13.1%, Automation 10.6%
- #57 HUNKER DOWN
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: munkgames
Windows
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources.
Why similar: Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Open World 11.2%, Building 10%