- #1 The Planet Crafter
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 71,525 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 38.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 21.2%, Crafting 14.1%, Space 12.3%, Building 11.8%, Survival 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the core loop of terraforming a barren planet while managing survival needs and expanding your base.
- #2 Nova Lands
96% matchVery Positive89% of 3,465 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.2 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: Base Building 24.6%, Sandbox 15.5%, Crafting 15.4%, Survival 11.5%, Building 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: This 2D title perfectly captures the cute aesthetic combined with automation, exploration, and base-building mechanics.
- #3 Core Keeper
95% matchVery Positive93% of 65,308 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 34.5 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: Base Building 20.7%, Crafting 16.9%, Sandbox 14.4%, Building 13.4%, Survival 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down 2D survival game that emphasizes mining, crafting, and building a base in a mysterious, hostile environment.
- #4 Keplerth
96% matchVery Positive84% of 4,145 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
Why similar: Sandbox 16.9%, Building 14.5%, Survival 13.7%, Open World 11.5%, Base Building 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox survival game that features extensive crafting, base building, and exploration on a dangerous alien planet.
- #5 Starbound
94% matchVery Positive90% of 123,064 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 64.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Sandbox 20.5%, Crafting 15.6%, Space 14.7%, Survival 12.2%, Building 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a vast space-exploration experience with deep crafting and base-building mechanics in a 2D pixel-art style.
- #6 Space Trash Scavenger
94% matchVery Positive84% of 521 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Crafting 16%, Base Building 14.2%, Space 14.1%, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the scavenging and survival aspects of space exploration while allowing you to build and customize your base.
- #7 Miniland Adventure
93% matchMostly Positive74% of 332 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 53%
The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!
Why similar: Base Building 17.2%, Sandbox 16.6%, Crafting 14.8%, Survival 13.3%, Building 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, 2D sandbox survival game that tasks you with expanding your world and crafting items to survive.
- #8 Forager
92% matchVery Positive90% of 43,749 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Crafting 24.6%, Survival 18.5%, Base Building 17%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the satisfying loop of gathering resources, crafting, and expanding your territory in a cute, top-down world.
- #9 Crashlands
91% matchVery Positive89% of 6,716 reviews2016
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Why similar: Base Building 17.7%, Crafting 15.5%, Sandbox 12.4%, Survival 11.6%, Building 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: It features a similar top-down perspective with a heavy focus on survival, crafting, and exploring alien biomes.
- #10 Breathedge
91% matchVery Positive82% of 16,329 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: Base Building 20.6%, Space 18.1%, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: A space survival game that captures the feeling of scavenging for resources to keep your life-support systems running.
- #11 ASTRONEER
90% matchVery Positive92% of 138,510 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.3 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: Base Building 17.8%, Space 16.1%, Survival 12.8%, Open World 11.2%, Sandbox 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: While 3D, it shares the core themes of space exploration, resource gathering, and modular base building.
- #12 Winter Burrow
89% matchVery Positive90% of 3,059 reviews2025
Dev: Pine Creek GamesPub: Noodlecake
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Winter Burrow is a cozy woodland survival game about a mouse returning home to restore their childhood burrow. Explore, gather resources, craft, knit warm sweaters, bake pies and meet the locals.
Why similar: Base Building 20.3%, Crafting 20.2%, Survival 13.9%, Building 13.5%, Cute 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy survival game that emphasizes crafting and exploration in a charming, snowy environment.
- #13 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
88% matchVery Positive85% of 4,592 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!
Why similar: Crafting 16.7%, Base Building 16%, Sandbox 14%, Building 12.9%, Open World 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the cozy side of survival, where you build and manage a base in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #14 Scrapnaut
89% matchMixed70% of 833 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.1 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: Building 17.1%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 14.8%, Survival 14.6%, Sandbox 13.8%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game where you build a base and craft items to survive in a hostile, stylized world.
- #15 Astrometica
86% matchVery Positive83% of 3,131 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
Why similar: Base Building 21.5%, Crafting 20%, Space 16.6%, Survival 16.1%, Open World 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: A space survival game that tasks you with building a base and managing resources while drifting through space.
- #16 Astro Colony
86% matchVery Positive81% of 2,654 reviews2026
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 28.7%, Space 17.5%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and automating a space colony while managing resources and survival needs.
- #17 Planetbase
87% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,370 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Why similar: Base Building 32.2%, Space 21.4%, Survival 15.3%, Building 8.7%, Sandbox 6%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused base builder that challenges you to manage a colony on a remote planet.
- #18 Oxygen Not Included
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 142,307 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 68.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Base Building 35.1%, Survival 17.9%, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 10.2%, Space 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A deep space-colony simulation that focuses on managing resources and building complex systems to survive.
- #19 Terraria
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,534,723 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.6 hrsMean: 150.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Sandbox 25.5%, Crafting 20.1%, Survival 17.2%, Building 15.5%, Open World 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential 2D sandbox game that provides endless opportunities for building, crafting, and exploring.
- #20 Space Haven
82% matchVery Positive86% of 10,886 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Base Building 22.1%, Space 14.6%, Sandbox 13.5%, Building 12.8%, Survival 12%
Why You'll Like It: A colony simulation game that requires you to build and manage a spaceship while dealing with survival challenges.
- #21 Slime Rancher
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 154,977 reviews2017
Dev: Monomi Park
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.
Why similar: Cute 25.3%, Open World 22.4%, Sandbox 18.1%, Exploration 17.5%, Family Friendly 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines cute creature collection with base management and exploration in a vibrant, alien setting.
- #22 Don't Starve
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 113,056 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Why similar: Survival 34.8%, Crafting 25.3%, Sandbox 18.4%, Open World 8.4%, Exploration 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game that requires careful resource management and base building to survive against the elements.
- #23 Ratopia
81% matchVery Positive88% of 4,734 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 25.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Base Building 23.6%, Building 16.4%, Survival 12.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival and building game that requires you to manage a colony of rats while dealing with environmental threats.
- #24 Dinkum
79% matchVery Positive92% of 28,918 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 28.8 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: Crafting 26.3%, Sandbox 20.7%, Building 19.5%, Relaxing 12.5%, Exploration 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy survival and building game that allows you to craft and expand your own settlement in a unique environment.
- #25 Above Snakes
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,985 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Piece by piece, create your own world in this relaxing Wild West-inspired worldbuilder. Craft, farm, hunt, build your base, and explore.
Why similar: Base Building 18.3%, Crafting 15.8%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 12.8%, Open World 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique tile-based world exploration system combined with survival and building mechanics.
- #26 Retreat To Enen
82% matchMixed61% of 401 reviews2022
Dev: Head WestPub: indie.io
Windows
Base building simulator 1500 years in the future. Journey to the Island of Enen to forage, craft, build, hunt, meditate, and explore across three vast biomes. Discover secrets and create the retreat of your dreams. With over 160 unique items to gather, craft, and build, every home will be unique.
Why similar: Base Building 18.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Crafting 13%, Survival 11.8%, Building 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing survival game that focuses on building and exploring in a beautiful, natural setting.
- #27 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
79% matchVery Positive85% of 630 reviews2024
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
Why similar: Base Building 27.9%, Crafting 23.7%, Sandbox 22.1%, Cute 8.6%, 2D 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: A unique take on crafting and automation that uses simple programming to manage your base.
- #28 Builderment
80% matchMixed67% of 124 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!
Why similar: Base Building 28.5%, Crafting 21.7%, Sandbox 15%, Building 14.4%, Top-Down 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the automation and base-building aspects of resource management games.
- #29 AETHUS
76% matchVery Positive95% of 1,920 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
Why similar: Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 14.2%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 11%, Space 10.9%
- #30 Littlewood
78% matchVery Positive93% of 6,812 reviews2020
Dev: Sean YoungPub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.
Why similar: Crafting 21.7%, Sandbox 17.1%, Building 15.9%, Open World 11.1%, Relaxing 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy building and life-sim game that focuses on crafting and town management.
- #31 XenoHaven
77% 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: Base Building 18.7%, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.3%
- #32 Graveyard Keeper
78% matchVery Positive85% of 54,094 reviews2018
Dev: Lazy Bear GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 27.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.
Why similar: Crafting 44.6%, Sandbox 24.8%, Building 18%, Simulation 7.7%, 2D 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: A crafting and management game with a dark, humorous twist that shares the top-down perspective and resource-gathering loop.
- #33 Catizens
77% matchVery Positive81% of 368 reviews2024
Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.
Why similar: Base Building 16.4%, Sandbox 14.9%, Crafting 14.8%, Building 14.6%, Survival 11.9%
- #34 Astrometica: Prologue
76% matchVery Positive90% of 1,294 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Astrometica: Prologue is the free game about surviving in space. You need to use your skills and tools to stay alive. There are many challenges to face, and you need to fight to survive. You also need to build a new base in space.
Why similar: Base Building 22.9%, Crafting 14.3%, Building 14.1%, Space 13.5%, Survival 12.7%
- #35 Learning Factory
75% matchVery Positive86% of 519 reviews2025
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.
Why similar: Base Building 22%, Crafting 14.8%, Cats 14.3%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 12.9%
- #36 Cat Simulator: Meow
75% matchMixed61% of 233 reviews2026
Dev: Cat Studio
Windows
To be a cat, to be a free cat.
Why similar: Base Building 21.3%, Cats 18.5%, Sandbox 13.1%, Open World 10.9%, Survival 10.6%
- #37 Eden Crafters
72% matchVery Positive86% of 2,537 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 13.6 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: Base Building 20.6%, Crafting 15.9%, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 10.8%, Space 10.2%
- #38 Star Ores Inc.
73% matchVery Positive82% of 321 reviews2025
Dev: BlackBeak GamesPub: Three River Games (3RG)
Windows
Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine. Cut through the asteroid with your laser, sell ore, and create an automated network of robot helpers to maximize your profit.
Why similar: Crafting 18.3%, Sandbox 15.8%, Space 14.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 9.3%
- #39 Miniland Adventure: Prologue
74% matchVery Positive87% of 721 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Miniland: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full game. Your task is to build your world and fight against your enemies. The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself!
Why similar: Base Building 20.1%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 14%, Survival 12.7%, Building 11.5%
- #40 Starship Theory
72% matchMixed50% of 1,119 reviews2026
Dev: Reconnect Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Starship Theory is a ship building survival game. Mine and trade to gather resources. Plan and construct new upgrades. Train and manage crew. Fight to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 36.9%, Space 21.8%, Survival 14.9%, Building 8%, Sci-fi 6.6%
- #41 Craterbound
74% matchMixed54% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Marquez
Windows
Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.
Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, Crafting 14.8%, Space 14.8%, Survival 12.2%, Open World 10.4%
- #42 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: Base Building 19.1%, Crafting 14%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 11.7%, Space 11.4%
- #43 Outpath
70% matchVery Positive93% of 3,073 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Base Building 29.3%, Crafting 23.1%, Sandbox 18%, Building 14.6%, Relaxing 8.1%
- #44 Stardeus
71% matchVery Positive87% of 1,543 reviews2022
Dev: Kodo LinijaPub: Paradox Arc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
Why similar: Base Building 20.1%, Crafting 14.6%, Space 13.8%, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 11.1%
- #45 Border Town
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 305 reviews2025
Dev: GoHoGamesPub: 2P Games
Windows
Restore the former glory of Border Town in an open-world sandbox RPG set in a fantastical realm. Explore the world, craft tools and weapons, cultivate fields, and socialise with your neighbours while dealing with dark forces that threaten to destroy everything you have built.
Why similar: Sandbox 16.8%, Building 15%, Open World 12.6%, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 9.3%
- #46 Remains
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 318 reviews2021
Dev: SoloQ
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!
Why similar: Base Building 17.6%, Crafting 14.5%, Space 12.7%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 11.1%
- #47 Star Crafter
69% matchMixed70% of 105 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: Base Building 21%, Crafting 17.1%, Space 14%, Sandbox 9.8%, Survival 9.1%
- #48 My Little Universe
68% matchVery Positive86% of 2,198 reviews2023
Dev: EstotyPub: SayGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Stranded on a barren moon with nothing but your tools, fuelless ship, and celestial powers of creation, you are destined to recreate what was once lost and be the hero of your own Little Universe! Don't forget to call in up to three of your friends to join your journey in the Splitscreen Co-op Mode!
Why similar: Crafting 18%, Sandbox 15.3%, Space 15.3%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 9.8%
- #49 Flotsam
66% matchVery Positive81% of 4,469 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Base Building 26.5%, Sandbox 16.9%, Survival 13.6%, Building 13.5%, Open World 11.4%
- #50 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
68% matchMostly Positive70% of 828 reviews2025
Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
Why similar: Base Building 32.3%, Building 17.9%, Space 16.9%, Survival 14.4%, Sandbox 11.4%
- #51 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,689 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Base Building 22.8%, Crafting 16.4%, Survival 14.6%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 10.6%
- #52 Autonauts
69% matchVery Positive90% of 4,943 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Why similar: Base Building 29.4%, Crafting 18.7%, Sandbox 14.3%, Building 13.1%, Cute 8%
- #53 The Last Cat in the Universe
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 914 reviews2026
Dev: Apamate Studio
Windows
Gather the remains of a dying space station to build a cozy home for the last cat in the universe. A short, narrative-driven incremental game about finding peace in the face of darkness
Why similar: Cats 36.4%, Relaxing 17%, Cute 14%, Space 12.3%, Sci-fi 9.9%
- #54 Farmcoz
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 82 reviews2024
Dev: Wigtor
Windows · Linux
Cozy Sandbox Game about Farming and Building. Is it raining outside? Just chill and relax with warm and cheerful atmosphere of Farmcoz. Farm, Build, Explore, Explode and Unlock all items. Good luck!
Why similar: Crafting 19.3%, Sandbox 18%, Base Building 16.6%, Building 16.2%, Relaxing 8.9%
- #55 CryoFall
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,448 reviews2021
Dev: AtomicTorch StudioPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
Why similar: Base Building 21.5%, Crafting 17.8%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 12.8%, Survival 12.1%
- #56 Pathless Woods
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,109 reviews2024
Dev: AniYa Games Studio
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Why similar: Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 17.2%, Sandbox 14%, Building 12.1%, Survival 11.9%
- #57 Spacebase DF-9
73% matchOverwhelmingly Negative18% of 4,332 reviews2014
Dev: Double Fine Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.
Why similar: Base Building 28.1%, Space 22.6%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 11.9%, Sci-fi 8.4%
- #58 Surviving Ceres
66% 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: Base Building 21.9%, Crafting 20.1%, Building 15.8%, Survival 14.9%, Open World 10.9%
- #59 Evospace
69% matchVery Positive83% of 391 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 25%, Crafting 21.6%, Sandbox 16.1%, Building 14.2%, Open World 11.2%
- #60 Farlight Explorers
71% matchMixed56% of 205 reviews2019
Dev: Farlight Games Industry
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Extract and gather resources from different planets. Manage the supply of electricity, water, food and oxygen of your base in order to survive. Automate the creation of new products. Build a spaceship to transport your products to other places...
Why similar: Sandbox 29.6%, Building 29.5%, Space 21.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Simulation 7.2%