- #1 Forager
97% matchVery Positive89% of 43,959 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: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9%, Farming Sim 8.8%, Base Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the exact same addictive island-hopping, gathering, and crafting loop found in Nova Lands.
- #2 Outpath
96% matchVery Positive93% of 3,103 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 12.9 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: Automation 22%, Base Building 15.1%, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 10.1%, Resource Management 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a similar clicker-meets-automation experience with a focus on relaxing resource management.
- #3 Factorio
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 233,774 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 192.8 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 30.6%, Base Building 19.4%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive automation game that provides the deep logistical challenges Nova Lands players often seek to scale up to.
- #4 Satisfactory
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 278,339 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 112.6 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 23.4%, Base Building 17.8%, Open World Survival Craft 11.3% ★, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It elevates the factory-building experience into a beautiful 3D open-world environment with deep exploration elements.
- #5 Core Keeper
94% matchVery Positive93% of 66,104 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 34.7 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: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down sandbox game combines exploration, base-building, and automation with a charming pixel-art aesthetic.
- #6 The Planet Crafter
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 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: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Automation 14.6%, Base Building 14%, Crafting 7.9%, Survival 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of exploring and terraforming a desolate world while building an increasingly complex base.
- #7 Necesse
92% matchVery Positive93% of 28,807 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 34.5% ★, Automation 10.8%, Sandbox 9%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that features base-building, automation, and exploration with a similar pixel-art aesthetic.
- #8 Autonauts
93% matchVery Positive90% of 4,956 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: Automation 31.7%, Base Building 15.2%, Farming Sim 9%, Crafting 8.2%, Sandbox 8%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the automation of tasks through a unique programming system that feels like a natural evolution of Nova Lands' robot helpers.
- #9 Minicology
91% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Isaac DennerPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
You have crash-landed into a mini-verse of tiny planets. Welcome to Minicology! Embark on an interstellar survival sandbox journey. Use your crafting, combat, and automation skills to survive the many challenges this mini-verse throws at you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.3% ★, Automation 15.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Farming Sim 9%, Sandbox 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on small-scale planet survival, crafting, and automation within a compact, pixelated space environment.
- #10 ASTRONEER
91% matchVery Positive92% of 139,015 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.6 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: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Automation 10%, Open World 9.5%, Survival 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This space exploration game emphasizes base-building and resource management on alien planets with a distinct, colorful visual style.
- #11 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
90% matchVery Positive84% of 2,273 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 14.8%, Sandbox 11%, Resource Management 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: It blends automation mechanics with cute creature helpers in a procedural world that mirrors the charm of Nova Lands.
- #12 FOUNDRY
89% matchVery Positive81% of 3,918 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Automation 19.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Robots 12.9%, Sandbox 9.5%, Crafting 9%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based factory building game that emphasizes exploration and large-scale industrial automation.
- #13 Tinkerlands
88% matchVery Positive86% of 4,087 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that emphasizes exploration and building in a pixelated fantasy world.
- #14 shapez
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,812 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Automation 28.8%, Base Building 17.2%, Sandbox 11.8%, Resource Management 11.3%, Crafting 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It strips away the survival elements to focus purely on the satisfying logic and design of factory automation.
- #15 Astro Colony
86% matchVery Positive81% of 2,699 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.2 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: Automation 25.6%, Base Building 20.5%, Resource Management 10.9%, Sandbox 8.4%, Crafting 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on building and automating a space colony, requiring careful resource management and expansion.
- #16 Dyson Sphere Program
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,542 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 75.8 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: Automation 33.2%, Base Building 21.6%, Resource Management 10.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a grand-scale approach to automation and resource management across multiple planets and star systems.
- #17 Eden Crafters
84% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 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: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Automation 19.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 8.2%, Crafting 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It allows players to collaborate on terraforming a planet through extensive automation and base-building.
- #18 Mob Factory
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 478 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 11.6%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It uniquely combines tower defense mechanics with factory automation to manage resources gathered from enemies.
- #19 Techtonica
85% matchMixed65% of 3,253 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 29.2%, Base Building 18%, Sandbox 10.7%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person game focuses on subterranean automation and exploration with a strong emphasis on resource management.
- #20 XenoHaven
82% 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: Open World Survival Craft 21.8% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Automation 11%, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: This survival game focuses on building a base in a hostile alien environment while managing scarce resources.
- #21 Craftopia
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,210 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Crafting 15.5%, Open World 14.8%, Survival 12%, Sandbox 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that incorporates automation and farming mechanics into a vast, varied landscape.
- #22 Starbound
82% matchVery Positive90% of 123,281 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.0 hrsMean: 64.4 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: Open World Survival Craft 41.8% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Crafting 9%, Survival 8.4%, Open World 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It features extensive space exploration, planet-hopping, and base-building with a distinct 2D pixel-art style.
- #23 FortressCraft Evolved!
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,063 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.5 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: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Automation 20.1%, Sandbox 9.5%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A deep, voxel-based factory game that focuses on long-term logistics and complex resource processing.
- #24 Slime Rancher
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 156,628 reviews2017
Dev: Monomi Park
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 21.7 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: Open World 32.7%, Sandbox 24.8%, Exploration 15%, Adventure 10.8%, Simulation 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a cozy, exploration-heavy experience focused on managing resources and creatures on an alien world.
- #25 Modulus: Factory Automation
79% matchVery Positive91% of 846 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 9.5%, Resource Management 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A focused management game that prioritizes the efficiency and design of factory production lines.
- #26 Terraria
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,548,448 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.8 hrsMean: 151.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Sandbox 15.5%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A classic sandbox game that offers deep exploration and base-building mechanics that serve as the foundation for the genre.
- #27 Blossom: The Seed of Life
78% matchVery Positive88% of 1,019 reviews2026
Dev: Pebbledust GamesPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.8% ★, Automation 12.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Robots 11.1%, Sandbox 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on exploration and base-building on a Martian-inspired planet with a heavy emphasis on robot-assisted tasks.
- #28 Cubic Odyssey
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,720 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 38.8% ★, Base Building 21.3%, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 11%, Open World 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an action-adventure experience with base-building elements in a stylized, blocky world.
- #29 Sandustry
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,449 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Open World Survival Craft 19.5% ★, Automation 16.7%, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 8.9%, Crafting 7.9%
- #30 Chocolate Factory
80% matchMixed57% of 150 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: Open World Survival Craft 21% ★, Automation 18.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 8.5%, Resource Management 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It applies automation and factory-building mechanics to a whimsical, candy-themed world.
- #31 Littlewood
78% matchVery Positive93% of 6,824 reviews2020
Dev: Sean YoungPub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.1 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: Farming Sim 17%, Sandbox 16.9%, Crafting 16.7%, Building 12.5%, Open World 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing town-building game that captures the cozy, low-stress exploration vibe found in Nova Lands.
- #32 Prospector
76% 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 14.6%, Open World Survival Craft 14.3% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Robots 10.2%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #33 Faun Town
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: 游乐坊Pub: 2P Games
Windows
After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.
Why similar: Automation 17.4%, Base Building 12.8%, Robots 11.2%, Farming Sim 10.3%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #34 Forage Wizard
73% matchVery Positive87% of 1,486 reviews2026
Dev: Lost Maxim
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Click, craft and collect your way to alchemical mastery. Progress through a branching skill tree and explore the forbidden woods. Collect resources and build machines of magic. Slay monsters, farm crops and automate your production to become the all-powerful Forage Wizard!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.4% ★, Automation 14%, Base Building 11.3%, Sandbox 8.7%, Crafting 8.5%
- #35 Outpath: First Journey
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,694 reviews2022
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.4% ★, Automation 18.1%, Base Building 14.7%, Farming Sim 11.5%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #36 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
74% matchVery Positive85% of 637 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: Automation 24.4%, Robots 14.9%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 12.3%, Open World Survival Craft 10.9% ★
- #37 Miniland Adventure
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 332 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
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: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 9%
- #38 Star Crafter
72% matchMixed70% of 106 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: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Automation 15.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 9%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #39 Autonauts vs Piratebots
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 523 reviews2022
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
Why similar: Automation 26.8%, Farming Sim 13.5%, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Robots 8.7%
- #40 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,709 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: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Automation 9.6%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 8.8%
- #41 Icaria
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 78 reviews2026
Dev: Blindsight Games LLC
Windows
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
Why similar: Automation 21%, Base Building 14.3%, Robots 10.5%, Sandbox 10%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #42 Crashlands
73% matchVery Positive90% of 6,745 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: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9%
- #43 Black Skylands
70% matchVery Positive84% of 4,496 reviews2023
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Become the captain of an airship and explore the world of the skies, gather resources and build powerful weapons, uncover ancient secrets and fight beneath your ship's sails.
Why similar: Base Building 23.3%, Sandbox 17.2%, Open World 15.2%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 11.7%
- #44 TerraTech Worlds
71% matchMixed63% of 2,287 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Base Building 15%, Automation 13.3%, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 9.2%
- #45 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
69% matchVery Positive91% of 7,602 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Automation 16.4%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 7.7%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #46 Starsand
72% matchMixed66% of 1,254 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Resource Management 9.3%, Survival 9.1%
- #47 Final Factory
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 305 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Why similar: Automation 28%, Base Building 18.1%, Resource Management 11.7%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 11.4%
- #48 ReFactory
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 92 reviews2022
Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
Windows
Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Why similar: Automation 26.5%, Base Building 22.3%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, Strategy 7.9%
- #49 Space Trash Scavenger
68% matchVery Positive84% of 525 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Automation 20%, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #50 Skyformer
67% matchVery Positive83% of 87 reviews2026
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Automation 20.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 7.4%
- #51 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 207 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: Open World Survival Craft 21.2% ★, Automation 19.3%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 8.6%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #52 Stranded: Alien Dawn
67% matchVery Positive84% of 11,322 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Base Building 36.5%, Survival 20.5%, Crafting 16%, Resource Management 10.2%, Strategy 6.8%
- #53 StarRupture
65% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.6% ★, Automation 20%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 8.8%, Crafting 8.6%
- #54 Solarpunk™
65% matchVery Positive82% of 4,341 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.9% ★, Automation 14.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Farming Sim 9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #55 Lightyear Frontier
67% matchVery Positive84% of 4,679 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Farming Sim 12.7%, Crafting 10%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #56 Builderment
69% matchMixed68% of 128 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: Automation 28.1%, Base Building 18.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #57 Atrio: The Dark Wild
68% matchMostly Positive80% of 606 reviews2023
Dev: Isto Inc.
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Automation 19.8%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 8.1%
