Games Like No Man's Sky

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36% ★, Space 15.1%, Open World 13.5%, Survival 8.2%, Multiplayer 6%

Why You'll Like It: Its colorful procedural planets, terrain deformation, resource-driven base building, vehicle exploration, and co-op provide one of the closest low-pressure alternatives to No Man's Sky.

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: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Space 13.1%, Open World 11.1%, Space Sim 9.1%, Survival 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is a more survival-heavy space sandbox built around exploring planets, constructing bases and capital ships, and traveling freely between worlds with friends.

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: Open World Survival Craft 45.1% ★, Space 11.5%, Open World 9%, Sandbox 8.7%, Survival 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its procedurally generated universe, planet hopping, crafting, colonization, and sandbox progression closely echo No Man's Sky in a 2D format.

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: Space 21.2%, Open World 18.5%, Space Sim 16.6%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a physics-driven sci-fi sandbox where you mine worlds and asteroids, engineer detailed ships and stations, and survive alone or in multiplayer.

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.3% ★, Space 13.6%, Open World 11.9%, Survival 8.4%, Sandbox 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: You explore and survive on a hostile alien planet while gathering resources, expanding a base, and visibly terraforming the entire world into a livable ecosystem.

Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.

Why similar: Space 24.7%, Space Sim 20.6%, Open World 19.1%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Exploration 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers an enormous open galaxy for piloting, trading, mining, planetary landings, and long-distance exploration, though with a more simulation-focused approach.

Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Space 15.6%, Survival 7.7%, Open World 7.3%, Sandbox 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This humorous first-person survival adventure swaps No Man's Sky's optimistic tone for absurdity while retaining space scavenging, crafting, oxygen management, and base construction.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.8% ★, Open World 13.6%, Survival 10.1%, Exploration 6.2%, Crafting 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the rewarding first-person loop of unknown-world exploration, survival crafting, resource collection, vehicle upgrades, and gradually uncovering alien mysteries.

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: Space 24%, Open World 20.5%, Space Sim 19.8%, Sandbox 12.9%, Sci-fi 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This procedural-galaxy sandbox emphasizes discovering sectors, mining resources, designing modular spaceships, fighting threats, and building an interstellar fleet with co-op support.

Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.2% ★, Open World 13.3%, Survival 9.7%, Exploration 5.7%, Multiplayer 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This more compact standalone survival adventure offers icy alien-biome exploration, modular bases, vehicles, crafting, and a stronger story-driven mystery.

A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.2% ★, Open World 14.9%, Survival 9.5%, Exploration 7.4%, Crafting 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: You pilot and customize a mobile airship base while scavenging a ruined sci-fi Earth, researching new technology, and exploring dangerous procedural locations.

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: Space 32.8%, Open World 14.2%, Sandbox 13.8%, Space Sim 12.9%, Sci-fi 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its central appeal is designing fully functional spacecraft and ground vehicles block by block, then using them to explore procedurally generated planets and space.

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.1% ★, Open World 11.7%, Survival 8.4%, Multiplayer 6%, Crafting 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines co-op survival crafting and base building with surreal procedural exploration as you upgrade a train that travels through interdimensional space.

Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.

Why similar: Space 31.7%, Open World 25.2%, Sci-fi 12.5%, Space Sim 9.9%, Exploration 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its single-player sci-fi RPG structure adds questing and character progression to a broad experience of visiting planets, scanning worlds, building outposts, and upgrading ships.

A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48% ★, Open World 15.5%, Survival 10.5%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Crafting 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This procedural co-op survival sandbox has the same satisfying rhythm of exploring unknown biomes, gathering materials, building homes, and preparing for tougher expeditions.

Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.

Why similar: Space 24.1%, Open World 19.1%, Space Sim 17.1%, Sandbox 10.8%, Sci-fi 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep living space sandbox where you explore, trade, fight, build stations, command fleets, and shape an evolving galactic economy.

The co-op open-world space sim where everyone has a role! Pilot the ship. Reroute power. Launch nukes. Explore alien planets. Research new talents. Work together to find the Lost Colony! ...or just deliver some biscuits

Why similar: Space 21.1%, Open World 19.8%, Space Sim 18.5%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Exploration 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op space adventure lets a crew operate, upgrade, and repair a customizable starship while exploring a procedurally generated galaxy of missions and encounters.

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: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Open World 21.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 9.6%, Multiplayer 9%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person alien-world exploration and resource collection are familiar, but the focus shifts toward constructing enormous automated factories with friends.

EVERSPACE 2 is a fast-paced single-player spaceship shooter with exploration in space and on planets, tons of loot, RPG elements, mining, and crafting. Experience an exciting sci-fi story set in a vivid, handcrafted open world full of secrets, puzzles, and perils.

Why similar: Space 35.7%, Open World 28.5%, Exploration 13.3%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Adventure 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is a more combat-focused space adventure, but its handcrafted star systems, free-form exploration, loot progression, and ship customization fit the spacefaring side of No Man's Sky.

Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.9% ★, Open World 13.2%, Space 9.9%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It turns the colonization fantasy into a methodical Mars survival simulation with base construction, resource extraction, rovers, repairs, and terraforming-adjacent systems.

Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.

Why similar: Space 35.1%, Open World 21%, Exploration 16.8%, Sci-fi 9.9%, First-Person 5%

Why You'll Like It: Although it lacks crafting and procedural worlds, its extraordinary solar-system exploration and curiosity-led discovery capture No Man's Sky's best sense of cosmic wonder.

The Solus Project is a single player exploration adventure with survival elements. The adventure is set on a mysterious planet and is the spiritual successor to The Ball - 2010 PC Gamer Action/Adventure Game Of The Year...

Why similar: Survival 21.4%, Space 16.6%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Exploration 11.9%, Open World 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person alien-planet survival game focuses on atmospheric exploration, harsh environmental hazards, crafting, and piecing together the secrets of an abandoned world.

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.3% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 11.4%, Multiplayer 9%, Crafting 6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a gentler survival-crafting journey built around expanding a mobile base, scavenging resources, visiting new locations, and playing cooperatively.

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: Open World Survival Craft 19.5% ★, Open World 16.8%, Space 15.6%, Space Sim 14.1%, Sandbox 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This MMO sandbox features a vast space setting where players can construct intricate ships and stations, mine asteroids, trade, and engage with a player-driven universe.

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: Space 29.5%, Survival 17.1%, Sandbox 15.5%, Sci-fi 14.5%, Crafting 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: For players who enjoy the technical side of building bases, it offers exceptionally detailed off-world survival involving atmospheres, power systems, farming, and automation.

Embark on a journey to greatness. Get ready for adrenaline-fueled battles and a chance to claim your place in the galaxy. Grab the controls of your ship, gear up for the fight, and unleash your ambition to conquer and build a new empire in the vastness of space.

Why similar: Space Sim 28.9%, Open World 28%, Space 27.8%, First-Person 8.6%, Crafting 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This ambitious open-universe RPG lets you fly between systems, land on planets, upgrade ships, mine, trade, fight, and build influence across a large galaxy.

In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.

Why similar: Space 39.3%, Space Sim 18.9%, Sandbox 15.5%, Open World 11.3%, Exploration 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It replaces alien survival with a playful but deep space-program sandbox where you design spacecraft, explore celestial bodies, and solve the practical problems of interplanetary travel.

Hyperjump into the dark recesses of space with Genesis Alpha One - a roguelike FPS where you must build, maintain and navigate your ship through a galaxy filled with hostile alien and human threats. Explore, create and survive the militarized space race in order to secure humanity’s future.

Why similar: Space 19.6%, Open World 19.3%, Space Sim 16.7%, Procedural Generation 11.7%, Sci-fi 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It blends procedural space exploration with ship construction, resource gathering, alien-planet expeditions, and the constant challenge of maintaining a self-sufficient colony vessel.

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: Survival 20.7%, Multiplayer 17.4%, Sandbox 17.3%, Procedural Generation 15.5%, Exploration 14.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its alien-planet expeditions, resource harvesting, base building, and technology progression make it a good fit for players who enjoy No Man's Sky's settlement-building side with more action.

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.1% ★, Open World 12.1%, Survival 10.8%, Space 9.1%, Multiplayer 6.6%

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: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Space 12.7%, Open World 10.3%, Survival 7.1%, Procedural Generation 6.4%

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 9.2%, Open World 8.8%, Multiplayer 6.4%

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: Open World Survival Craft 46.2% ★, Open World 15.7%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 7%, Crafting 4.9%

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: Open World Survival Craft 44.9% ★, Open World 14%, Survival 10%, Space 9.6%, Sandbox 6.7%

You are the lone survivor orbiting a potential new home planet, tethered to what’s left of your ship. Gather nearby debris and assemble a make-shift vessel in an attempt to survive the harsh realities of space. Maybe you'll live long enough to uncover the truth behind the ship's malfunction...

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Space 14.3%, Survival 8.1%, Open World 7.4%, Crafting 6.2%

Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Open World 10.5%, Space 10.4%, Procedural Generation 7.8%, Space Sim 7.5%

You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.6% ★, Space 15.9%, Survival 9%, Exploration 5.7%, Crafting 5.7%

Survive on the edge of space! Craft and upgrade tools, scavenge resources, and save a galaxy gone completely off the rails. Can Ordinary Man save the galaxy with the help of the immortal Chicken and some duct tape?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Space 15.1%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 7.7%, Sandbox 6.8%

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.3% ★, Open World 12.5%, Survival 11.3%, Multiplayer 7%, Crafting 5.5%

Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.5% ★, Open World 14.2%, Survival 11.4%, Multiplayer 6.4%, Crafting 5.5%

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.1% ★, Open World 12.8%, Survival 7.4%, Sandbox 7.3%, Multiplayer 5.9%

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.9% ★, Open World 14.2%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 8.7%, Exploration 7%

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: Open World Survival Craft 33.3% ★, Space 13.3%, Open World 12%, Space Sim 7.8%, Survival 7.5%

An open-world galaxy adventure game ✨🚀🌠 Explore a procedurally-generated universe filled with diverse micro-planets, asteroid belts and UFOs. 👽

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Space 17.4%, Open World 13%, Procedural Generation 10.9%, Sci-fi 8%

Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.1% ★, Open World 15.4%, Space Sim 14.7%, Space 14.7%, Survival 9.7%

Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Space 12.8%, Open World 9.9%, Space Sim 8%, Survival 6.9%

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53% ★, Open World 13.8%, Survival 13%, Exploration 5.2%, Sandbox 3.6%

Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49% ★, Space 11.1%, Sandbox 10%, Open World 6.2%, Sci-fi 5.3%

Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone or with friends in 4-player co-op. Adapt to survive by building custom bases and crafting tools. Explore the unknown to uncover the mysteries hidden within the depths.

Why similar: Open World 24.8%, Survival 19.3%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Exploration 13.5%, Sci-fi 7.7%

Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.4% ★, Open World 16.4%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 6.9%, Survival 6.5%

Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.

Why similar: Space 39.1%, Sci-fi 15.7%, Sandbox 14.5%, Exploration 11.7%, Procedural Generation 7.2%

Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.5% ★, Open World 13.2%, Survival 9.7%, Space 8.8%, Multiplayer 6.4%

While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.3% ★, Open World 15.6%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 6.6%, Exploration 5.9%

Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.6% ★, Sandbox 10%, Sci-fi 9.7%, Open World 6.7%, Space 6.2%

A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.2% ★, Space 15.1%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 6.8%, Survival 6.7%

Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.

Why similar: Space 24%, Open World 21.4%, Space Sim 19.5%, Sandbox 10.2%, Exploration 10%

Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.2% ★, Open World 11.7%, Survival 10.6%, Multiplayer 5.4%, Sandbox 4.9%