- #1 Forager
97% 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: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 9%, Farming Sim 8.9%, Base Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the exact same top-down, island-hopping, resource-gathering, and expansion-focused gameplay loop.
- #2 Outpath
96% 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: Open World Survival Craft 19.6% ★, Automation 15.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Farming Sim 9.8%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar clicker-meets-automation experience with a focus on island exploration and incremental growth.
- #3 Satisfactory
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 274,659 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.8 hrsMean: 111.2 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 23.7%, Base Building 17.6%, Open World Survival Craft 11.1% ★, Crafting 8.8%, Resource Management 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a first-person perspective on the same satisfying automation and factory-building mechanics found in Nova Lands.
- #4 Factorio
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 231,662 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 45.0 hrsMean: 191.7 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 31%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive automation game that rewards players for scaling their production lines and defending their territory.
- #5 The Planet Crafter
94% 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: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Automation 15%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 7.9%, Survival 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on terraforming and survival, requiring players to automate resource collection to transform a barren world.
- #6 Core Keeper
94% 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: Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines top-down exploration, resource gathering, and base-building in a charming, mysterious underground world.
- #7 Necesse
92% matchVery Positive93% of 27,498 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.9 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% ★, Automation 11.1%, Sandbox 9.1%, Base Building 8.7%, Crafting 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that adds colony management and automation elements to a procedurally generated world.
- #8 Autonauts
93% 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: Automation 31.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Farming Sim 9%, Crafting 8.2%, Sandbox 8%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique programming-based automation system that allows you to automate tasks using cute robots.
- #9 ASTRONEER
91% 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: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Automation 10.2%, Survival 9.4%, Open World 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes space exploration and modular base-building, capturing the sense of wonder found in Nova Lands.
- #10 Eden Crafters
90% 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: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Automation 19.5%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 8.2%, Sandbox 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Allows players to build and automate factories on a planetary scale with a strong focus on survival and crafting.
- #11 Mindustry
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 27,276 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 27.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 35.8%, Base Building 24%, Resource Management 15%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Blends complex automation chains with tower defense, perfect for players who enjoy the logistical side of Nova Lands.
- #12 Astro Colony
89% 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: Automation 26%, Base Building 20.3%, Resource Management 11.1%, Sandbox 8.4%, Crafting 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and automating a space station while exploring a vast, procedurally generated universe.
- #13 Tinkerlands
87% matchVery Positive86% of 3,973 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 14.0 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 33.6% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that features similar top-down exploration and base-building mechanics.
- #14 Miniland Adventure
89% 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: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 9%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that mirrors the island-expansion and crafting progression of Nova Lands.
- #15 Techtonica
88% matchMixed65% of 3,219 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 29.6%, Base Building 17.7%, Sandbox 10.6%, Resource Management 10.5%, Building 10%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory automation game set in a bioluminescent underground world that emphasizes resource management.
- #16 FOUNDRY
86% matchVery Positive81% of 3,864 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 19.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Robots 12.7%, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 9%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based factory building game that offers deep automation mechanics in an infinite, procedurally generated world.
- #17 Space Trash Scavenger
85% 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Automation 20.4%, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival, crafting, and automation in a space-themed environment where you scavenge for resources.
- #18 Mob Factory
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 478 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 29.6%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 11.7%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A unique automation game where you build factories to process creatures, blending resource management with tower defense.
- #19 Dinkum
82% 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: Open World Survival Craft 43.4% ★, Farming Sim 15%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: A charming island-life simulation that incorporates survival and base-building elements in a unique Australian-inspired setting.
- #20 Starbound
84% 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: Open World Survival Craft 41.7% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 8.4%, Open World 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a vast, space-faring adventure with deep crafting, building, and exploration mechanics.
- #21 Autonauts vs Piratebots
83% matchMostly Positive77% of 520 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 27.2%, Farming Sim 13.5%, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Robots 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Adds a combat and defense layer to the core programming-based automation gameplay of the original Autonauts.
- #22 FortressCraft Evolved!
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,058 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: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Automation 20.6%, Sandbox 9.5%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A massive, deep automation and base-building game that focuses on long-term resource logistics.
- #23 Terraria
82% 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: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Sandbox 15.5%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential 2D sandbox game that provides endless opportunities for exploration, crafting, and base-building.
- #24 Dyson Sphere Program
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,085 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.3 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 33.5%, Base Building 21.3%, Resource Management 11%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A grand-scale automation game that challenges you to build a galactic-scale factory network.
- #25 shapez
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,623 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.7 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 29.3%, Base Building 17.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Resource Management 11.5%, Crafting 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, pure automation game that focuses on the logic and logistics of processing shapes.
- #26 Slime Rancher
80% 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: Open World 32.5%, Sandbox 24.9%, Exploration 15%, Adventure 10.7%, Simulation 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on resource management and exploration in a colorful, alien world that shares the lighthearted tone of Nova Lands.
- #27 Craftopia
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,099 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% ★, Crafting 15.5%, Open World 14.7%, Survival 12%, Sandbox 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that blends crafting, automation, and exploration with a wide variety of activities.
- #28 Stationeers
79% matchVery Positive88% of 9,110 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 83.8 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: Automation 26.4%, Base Building 18.2%, Sandbox 12.5%, Resource Management 11.7%, Crafting 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival and automation game that requires deep knowledge of systems and engineering to succeed.
- #29 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 31%, Sandbox 22.1%, Pixel Graphics 17.6%, Building 12.8%, Simulation 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a management-heavy experience with crafting and automation elements set in a quirky, dark-humored world.
- #30 Prospector
77% 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: Automation 14.9%, Open World Survival Craft 14.2% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Robots 10.1%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #31 Faun Town
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 105 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 17.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Robots 11.1%, Farming Sim 10.3%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #32 Outpath: First Journey
75% 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 21.2% ★, Automation 18.5%, Base Building 14.6%, Farming Sim 11.5%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #33 Forage Wizard
73% matchVery Positive87% of 1,220 reviews2026
Dev: Lost Maxim
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 18.6% ★, Automation 14.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 8.7%, Crafting 8.5%
- #34 Minicology
77% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Isaac DennerPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 19.1% ★, Automation 16%, Base Building 10.5%, Farming Sim 9%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #35 Cubic Odyssey
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,674 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 21.4%, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 11%, Open World 4.4%
- #36 Modulus: Factory Automation
73% matchVery Positive92% of 797 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 25.6%, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 9.4%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #37 XenoHaven
74% 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%, Automation 11.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 8.9%
- #38 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
74% 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: Automation 24.9%, Robots 14.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 12.2%, Open World Survival Craft 10.7% ★
- #39 Blossom: The Seed of Life
72% matchVery Positive89% of 956 reviews2026
Dev: Pebbledust GamesPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
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 21.6% ★, Automation 13.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Robots 11%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #40 Skyformer
72% matchVery Positive84% of 70 reviews2025
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!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Automation 20.1%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 8.4%, Survival 7.2%
- #41 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
71% matchVery Positive84% of 2,251 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 25.7%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 14.7%, Sandbox 10.9%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #42 Chocolate Factory
73% matchMixed55% of 146 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 20.7% ★, Automation 19.2%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 8.5%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #43 Star Crafter
71% 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: Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Automation 16.3%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 9%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #44 Black Skylands
70% matchVery Positive84% of 4,434 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 17.3%, Open World 15.1%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 11.7%
- #45 Icaria
68% matchVery Positive80% of 75 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 21.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Robots 10.3%, Sandbox 9.9%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #46 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 28.4%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 11.3%
- #47 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
69% 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: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Automation 9.9%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 8.9%
- #48 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
67% matchVery Positive91% of 7,488 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 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 25.4% ★, Automation 16.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 7.8%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #49 Starsand
70% matchMixed66% of 1,246 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 28.6% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Resource Management 9.6%, Survival 9.1%
- #50 Crashlands
71% 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: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.1%
- #51 TerraTech Worlds
69% matchMixed63% of 2,256 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.6 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 25.1% ★, Base Building 15%, Automation 13.6%, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 9.2%
- #52 StarRupture
65% matchVery Positive81% of 12,866 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 24.4% ★, Automation 20.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 8.8%, Crafting 8.6%
- #53 ReFactory
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 91 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 26.9%, Base Building 22.1%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 9.8%, Strategy 7.9%
- #54 Astrometica
66% 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: Automation 21.5%, Open World Survival Craft 16.7% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.7%
- #55 Lightyear Frontier
66% matchVery Positive84% of 4,562 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 11.9 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 25.8% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Farming Sim 12.7%, Crafting 10%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #56 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 203 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% ★, Automation 19.6%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 8.6%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #57 Stranded: Alien Dawn
66% matchVery Positive84% of 11,117 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.0 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 36.1%, Survival 20.5%, Crafting 16%, Resource Management 10.4%, Strategy 6.8%
