- #1 Space Engineers
97% matchVery Positive89% of 133,238 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 95.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Building 20.7%, Sandbox 16.8%, Physics 13.3%, Open World 12.7%, Survival 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Developed by the same team, this game shares the core voxel-based physics and engineering engine but applies it to space exploration.
- #2 Besiege
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 52,104 reviews2020
Dev: Spiderling Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Besiege is a physics building game about constructing medieval machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!
Why similar: Destruction 23.2%, Building 18.6%, Medieval 16.4%, Sandbox 15.4%, Physics 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: This physics-based building game tasks you with constructing medieval siege engines to destroy structures, mirroring the destruction mechanics of the seed game.
- #3 GearBlocks
96% matchVery Positive91% of 717 reviews2023
Dev: SmashHammer Games
Windows · Linux
Explore a world of creative building, interactive machines, and gears - lots of gears. Build all things mechanical: cars, trucks, cranes, tanks, gearboxes, engines, clocks, anything you can think of. Test your creations to destruction in challenging scenarios, and share them in the workshop!
Why similar: Building 25.4%, Destruction 23.3%, Sandbox 18%, Physics 14.9%, Open World 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A highly detailed physics-based sandbox game that allows for complex mechanical construction and realistic movement.
- #4 Scrap Mechanic
95% matchVery Positive92% of 117,049 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 57.3 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: Building 24.1%, Sandbox 16.7%, Physics 12.5%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A creative sandbox game centered on building functional machines using a robust physics engine and mechanical parts.
- #5 Stormworks: Build and Rescue
94% matchVery Positive90% of 57,601 reviews2020
Dev: Geometa
Windows · Mac
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 111.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.
Why similar: Building 28.9%, Sandbox 27.2%, Open World 17.6%, Physics 16.8%, Survival 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on complex engineering, logic systems, and physics-based vehicle construction in a challenging open-world environment.
- #6 From the Depths
94% matchVery Positive89% of 12,523 reviews2020
Dev: Brilliant Skies Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 40.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.
Why similar: Building 24.4%, Sandbox 18.8%, Physics 14.2%, Crafting 11.3%, Multiplayer 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredibly deep engineering system where you build vehicles block-by-block with complex physics and weapon systems.
- #7 TerraTech
93% matchVery Positive91% of 24,455 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 28.8%, Sandbox 20.6%, Open World 14.7%, Crafting 10%, Multiplayer 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features modular, physics-based vehicle building where structural integrity and component placement directly impact performance.
- #8 Medieval Machines Builder
92% matchMostly Positive80% of 113 reviews2024
Dev: FreeMind S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Medieval - times of constant sieges. Acquire plans, gather resources, create most powerful and destructive machines and then test them in battle. Thanks to your creations you will conquer more than one castle. The knights wage wars, but thanks to your machines they win them.
Why similar: Destruction 25.2%, Medieval 18%, Building 17.6%, Sandbox 14.4%, Physics 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: Specifically focuses on the construction and operation of historical siege weaponry and medieval mechanical devices.
- #9 Stationeers
91% matchVery Positive88% of 8,897 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 81.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Building 25.1%, Sandbox 20.2%, Physics 16.6%, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a hardcore engineering experience where you must manage complex electrical, atmospheric, and mechanical systems.
- #10 Going Medieval
89% matchVery Positive89% of 20,287 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: Sandbox 32.2%, Crafting 19.5%, Survival 16.2%, Voxel 14.2% ★, Simulation 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-building game that incorporates structural integrity and verticality, requiring careful planning to build stable medieval fortifications.
- #11 Life is Feudal: Your Own
91% matchMixed66% of 12,039 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Medieval 20.6%, Building 17.5%, Sandbox 15.7%, Open World 14.3%, Crafting 11%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a realistic medieval survival experience with a focus on terraforming and complex building construction.
- #12 Medieval Dynasty
89% matchVery Positive91% of 49,970 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 35.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Building 23.8%, Medieval 15.3%, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 12%, Open World 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Blends survival and building mechanics, allowing you to construct a thriving medieval village from the ground up.
- #13 Castle Story
90% matchMixed65% of 10,510 reviews2017
Dev: Sauropod Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Why similar: Building 33%, Sandbox 22.6%, Open World 7.8%, Survival 7.7%, Multiplayer 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based strategy game that emphasizes building castles and managing resources with a focus on structural stability.
- #14 Bellwright
88% matchVery Positive81% of 18,990 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 41.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Why similar: Medieval 20.8%, Building 18.8%, Open World 17%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines medieval survival with base-building and management, focusing on the growth of a settlement in a hostile world.
- #15 Eco
87% matchVery Positive81% of 13,777 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 88.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Building 26.8%, Sandbox 21.7%, Open World 14.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Multiplayer 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A simulation game where building and resource management have long-term impacts on a complex, player-driven ecosystem.
- #16 Rising World
86% matchVery Positive86% of 5,845 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Building 26.4%, Sandbox 20.8%, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 10.2%, Multiplayer 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game with a focus on voxel-based building, crafting, and survival in a procedurally generated world.
- #17 Starship EVO
86% matchVery Positive84% of 1,210 reviews2020
Dev: Moonfire Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
Why similar: Building 32.2%, Sandbox 22.2%, Open World 10.7%, Simulation 9.1%, Physics 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features an advanced modular building system that emphasizes mechanical functionality and physics-based movement.
- #18 Timberborn
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 38,007 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: Building 28.5%, Sandbox 23.3%, Physics 16.5%, Survival 10.8%, Voxel 10.6% ★
Why You'll Like It: A city builder featuring beaver engineers that emphasizes water physics and vertical construction to survive droughts.
- #19 Stonehearth
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,970 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Building 30.4%, Sandbox 23.9%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based city builder that allows for creative architectural design while managing the survival of your inhabitants.
- #20 FortressCraft Evolved!
85% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,055 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: Building 24.8%, Sandbox 21.7%, Crafting 14.2%, Open World 10%, Survival 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A massive voxel-based game that focuses on complex automation, base defense, and large-scale construction.
- #21 Trailmakers
83% matchVery Positive92% of 34,107 reviews2019
Dev: Flashbulb
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.
Why similar: Building 21.7%, Sandbox 17.6%, Physics 14%, Open World 13%, Crafting 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on intuitive, physics-based vehicle construction that allows for creative engineering in a sandbox environment.
- #22 Foundation
81% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: Medieval 28.8%, Building 21.6%, Sandbox 19.1%, Open World 8.4%, Simulation 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A grid-less medieval city builder that allows for organic construction and complex architectural layouts.
- #23 Hydroneer
82% matchVery Positive86% of 27,097 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Building 25.3%, Sandbox 23.3%, Open World 16.3%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Crafting 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A physics-based mining and construction game where you build complex machinery to automate resource extraction.
- #24 Satisfactory
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Building 23.9%, Open World 17.5%, Sandbox 17.3%, Crafting 14.7%, Multiplayer 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory building game that emphasizes complex logistics, verticality, and large-scale engineering.
- #25 Bridge Constructor Medieval
84% matchVery Positive82% of 599 reviews2014
Dev: ClockStonePub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Bridge Constructor Medieval turns back the clock a few centuries to the time of knights and castles. Build sturdy bridges to supply your city with provisions - or cunningly constructed bridges that collapse under the weight of attacking troops, sending the horde of enemies into the abyss below.
Why similar: Building 44.4%, Medieval 20.2%, Simulation 19.3%, Physics 12.6%, Indie 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle game that specifically tasks you with building stable medieval structures to withstand various loads.
- #26 Main Assembly
81% matchVery Positive84% of 1,337 reviews2021
Dev: Bad Yolk GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 50%
You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.
Why similar: Building 26.1%, Sandbox 21.3%, Physics 16.3%, Crafting 13.7%, Multiplayer 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A highly flexible robotics sandbox that uses a powerful physics engine to let you build and program custom machines.
- #27 Avorion
80% matchVery Positive90% of 14,288 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.6 hrsMean: 98.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
Why similar: Building 34.6%, Sandbox 28.7%, Open World 20.3%, Voxel 9.2% ★, Simulation 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A space sandbox that features a modular ship-building system where the placement of blocks directly affects the ship's capabilities.
- #28 Dyson Sphere Program
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Building 38.6%, Sandbox 25%, Open World 22.7%, Simulation 8.3%, Strategy 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on massive-scale engineering and automation across multiple planets, perfect for fans of complex construction.
- #29 Space Engineers 2
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,293 reviews2025
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Space Engineers 2 is a sandbox about engineering and colonization where you build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible world. Begin the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol, expand humanity’s foothold in the Almagest system, and fight to survive.
Why similar: Destruction 20.6%, Building 18.1%, Sandbox 15.1%, Physics 10.7%, Open World 9.8%
- #30 Voxel Tycoon
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,743 reviews2021
Dev: Voxel Tycoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Voxel Tycoon — a management sim set in the infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods on your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!
Why similar: Building 27.4%, Sandbox 22.4%, Crafting 15.3%, Open World 10.7%, Voxel 9.7% ★
Why You'll Like It: A management game set in a voxel world that focuses on building logistics networks and industrial infrastructure.
- #31 Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game
78% matchVery Positive94% of 16,959 reviews2015
Dev: Camshaft Software Ltd
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 53.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Make your dream cars a reality with Automation’s unparalleled car and engine design tools. Gain a competitive edge through smart engineering and business decisions to help you build an automotive empire. Will you become an industry leader, or just a footnote in automotive history?
Why similar: Building 33.2%, Sandbox 23.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Physics 10.5%, Simulation 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an incredibly deep engineering simulation for designing engines and vehicles from the ground up.
- #32 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,087 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Building 19.8%, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 12%, Physics 10.8%, Crafting 8.9%
- #33 Planet Explorers
77% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.1%, Open World 18.7%, Building 16.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 8.9%
- #34 MineMogul
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,443 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Building 28.1%, Sandbox 18.3%, Physics 17.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 11.3%
- #35 Reign Of Kings
76% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Why similar: Medieval 19.4%, Building 19%, Open World 14.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #36 Starbase
74% matchMixed56% of 6,702 reviews2021
Dev: Frozenbyte
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 91.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
Why similar: Building 25.3%, Sandbox 17.1%, Destruction 16.6%, Open World 15.7%, Crafting 8.4%
- #37 StarMade
75% matchMixed68% of 2,981 reviews2014
Dev: Schine GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
Why similar: Sandbox 26.7%, Building 23.1%, Open World 16.4%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Crafting 7.5%
- #38 KINGDOMS
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 4,079 reviews2015
Dev: Oreol
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
KINGDOMS is a procedural medieval RPG in a randomly generated open world. The main feature of KINGDOMS is a smart AI system that completely controls NPC behavior. As the player, you can fully interact with this massive world and become any person you want to be.
Why similar: Building 23%, Medieval 21%, Open World 16.3%, Sandbox 13.7%, Crafting 9.4%
- #39 Creativerse
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Building 22.5%, Sandbox 18.4%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 9%
- #40 Aviassembly
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,303 reviews2025
Dev: Jelle Booij
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and fly your own airplane! Complete missions to earn money, upgrade your plane, and discover new locations in an open world.
Why similar: Building 26.4%, Sandbox 18.1%, Physics 14.9%, Destruction 14.7%, Open World 9.8%
- #41 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
74% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: Medieval 24.3%, Building 23.9%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.5%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #42 Kingdoms and Castles
72% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: Building 29.5%, Medieval 28.3%, Sandbox 18.2%, Strategy 6.4%, Survival 5.8%
- #43 Castle Craft
70% matchVery Positive87% of 359 reviews2025
Dev: Twin EarthPub: Astra Logical
Windows
Will your castle survive the relentless onslaught, or collapse under pressure? Build, manage resources, and outsmart your foes in a world where everything can be destroyed. Use strategy and creativity to turn the chaos into your greatest advantage!
Why similar: Destruction 18.5%, Medieval 16%, Building 15.4%, Sandbox 12.6%, Survival 10.1%
- #44 TerraTech Worlds
70% matchMixed63% of 2,175 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Building 24.5%, Sandbox 20.7%, Open World 15.3%, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 10%
- #45 Colony Survival
71% matchVery Positive92% of 8,816 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Building 26.3%, Sandbox 17.8%, Survival 12.9%, Open World 12.5%, Multiplayer 10.1%
- #46 GRAV
73% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Sandbox 25.3%, Open World 23.6%, Survival 17.7%, Crafting 14.3%, Multiplayer 11.8%
- #47 Life is Feudal: MMO
73% matchMixed40% of 7,330 reviews2018
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 45.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.
Why similar: Medieval 22.4%, Building 19.3%, Sandbox 19%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 11%
- #48 FOUNDRY
68% matchVery Positive81% of 3,508 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Building 22.5%, Sandbox 18.1%, Open World 14.2%, Crafting 12.5%, Multiplayer 9%
- #49 Brickadia
67% matchVery Positive87% of 1,234 reviews2025
Dev: Brickadia, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 29.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Brickadia is a next-generation brick building sandbox that gives you the tools to create and play, your way. Build massive worlds, invent cool contraptions, and play in them however you like - all with your friends!
Why similar: Building 32%, Sandbox 28.5%, Physics 22.5%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Co-op 3.7%
- #50 MachineCraft
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 889 reviews2016
Dev: G2CREW
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 32.1 hrs≥1hr: 34%
The main purpose of this game is showing and watching machines made out of blocks. Some of the game-modes allow you to battle or race against other players. (testing phase) You can create your original machine with ease by reassembling those machines that are distributed, or by using the automatic control block.
Why similar: Building 41.4%, Sandbox 31.7%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Simulation 7.4%, Open World 3.5%
- #51 The Enjenir: The Engineering Physics Building Simulator
66% matchVery Positive91% of 691 reviews2023
Dev: PeatyTurf
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Put your engineering and problem solving skills to the test in this sandbox physics building game! Enjoy the freedom of completely gridless 3D sandbox building combined with hilarious ragdoll third person controls, offering a truly unique and hilarious "Enjeniring" experience!
Why similar: Sandbox 24.9%, Building 22.5%, Medieval 22.2%, Physics 17%, Simulation 5.5%
- #52 Alchemy Factory
64% matchVery Positive90% of 2,078 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!
Why similar: Building 24.4%, Medieval 22.5%, Sandbox 20.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Multiplayer 8.9%
- #53 Out of Ore
66% matchVery Positive86% of 3,794 reviews2022
Dev: North Modding Company AB
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A casual heavy equipment experience. Mine ore, Move dirt, Build and repair.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.2%, Building 24.7%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 10%, Simulation 9.4%
- #54 Mechanica
68% matchMixed64% of 633 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: Building 45.1%, Sandbox 27.1%, Survival 17.2%, Multiplayer 6.4%, Indie 2.7%
- #55 Dig or Die
67% matchVery Positive90% of 4,268 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Sandbox 24.6%, Crafting 14.4%, Building 13.9%, Survival 13.4%, Open World 11.9%
- #56 Orebound
65% matchMostly Positive78% of 849 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Orebound is a voxel, factory, automation game set in a first person open-world. The King has tasked you to locate the elusive Emberstone. Go forth and use your Dwarven prowess and knowledge to mine, craft and automate through anything standing in your way - Build up or dig down! How far will you go?
Why similar: Building 22.5%, Sandbox 17.6%, Open World 13.7%, Crafting 13.6%, Multiplayer 9.4%
- #57 Crestfallen: Medieval Survival
66% matchMixed60% of 455 reviews2024
Dev: Bloodbath Studios
Windows
👑 Hail to the King! In Crestfallen: Medieval Survival, players clash for dominance over the realm through strategic castle 🏰 building and fierce combat. Craft epic armor, forge deadly medieval weapons⚔️, and build a kingdom worthy of legend 📜. Create a Guild 🐉, trade goods, and prevail! 🌟
Why similar: Building 19%, Medieval 14.7%, Sandbox 13.9%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 11.8%
- #58 Timber and Stone
69% matchMixed49% of 863 reviews2015
Dev: Games by Robert, LLC
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Timber and Stone is a procedural city building game set in a medieval fantasy world. With over one-hundred resources to gather and craft, Timber and Stone has the feel of a real time strategy game, but with much more depth and complexity.
Why similar: Sandbox 37.5%, Survival 28.2%, Crafting 18.8%, Strategy 11.6%, Indie 3.3%
