- #1 The Planet Crafter
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 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 23.6% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Crafting 7.9%, Survival 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It perfectly mirrors the core loop of transforming a barren, hostile planet into a habitable world through terraforming and base-building.
- #2 ICARUS
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 25% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 8.9%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Crafting 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This session-based survival game emphasizes high-stakes technical crafting and environmental management on a dangerous alien planet.
- #3 Stationeers
96% matchVery Positive88% of 9,306 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 85.8 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: Mining 17% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Resource Management 10%, Survival 10%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers the most comparable level of technical complexity, requiring players to manage advanced electrical and atmospheric systems.
- #4 Forever Skies
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 9,059 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 26.1% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9%, Open World 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Players must maintain a complex, mobile base while scavenging for resources in a ruined, atmospheric world.
- #5 Space Engineers
94% matchVery Positive89% of 134,498 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Base Building 16.2%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 10.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It provides unparalleled freedom in physics-based base and vehicle construction, essential for players who enjoy the technical building aspects of Occupy Mars.
- #6 ASTRONEER
93% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 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 30.3% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 9.6%, Open World 9.6%, Space 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the spirit of planetary exploration and modular base building with a focus on resource extraction and creative problem-solving.
- #7 Eden Crafters
92% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 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 26.1% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 9.5%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Open World 7%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on terraforming and automation, mirroring the core loop of transforming a hostile planet into a thriving ecosystem.
- #8 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,438 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 77.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 8.8%, Open World 8.4%, Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines planetary survival with extensive vehicle and base construction across a vast, explorable solar system.
- #9 Volcanoids
91% matchVery Positive83% of 9,358 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 13.3%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Survival 10.2%, Sandbox 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on technical base-building and survival against environmental threats using a unique, mobile drill-ship base.
- #10 Lightyear Frontier
89% matchVery Positive84% of 4,735 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 13.6 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 22.2% ★, Mining 12.6% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 8.8%, Online Co-Op 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a relaxing yet technical approach to planetary farming and base building using customizable mechs.
- #11 Astro Colony
88% matchVery Positive81% of 2,730 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 23.9%, Resource Management 13.7%, Crafting 11.3%, Space 11%, Building 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It features complex automation and resource management within a space-based colony simulation that rewards efficient infrastructure.
- #12 Breathedge
89% matchVery Positive81% of 18,514 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 34.9% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 8.8%, Space 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a mechanically deep space survival experience with a constant, tense focus on oxygen management and resource gathering.
- #13 Satisfactory
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 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: Base Building 19.4%, Open World Survival Craft 14.8% ★, Crafting 12%, Open World 10.1%, Resource Management 9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides the ultimate automation and base-building experience for players who enjoy the technical logistics of Occupy Mars.
- #14 TerraTech Worlds
87% matchMixed63% of 2,297 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 21.8 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 24.6% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Mining 11.6% ★, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It allows for deep customization and construction of vehicles and bases in an open-world alien environment with a focus on modular design.
- #15 StarRupture
85% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 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 27.5% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It combines base building and survival with automation elements on a visually striking alien planet.
- #16 Subsistence
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Base Building 9%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a grounded, technical survival experience with a strong emphasis on base building and resource management in a challenging environment.
- #17 The Front
84% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 44.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10%, Survival 8.7%, Open World 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It features extensive base building and survival mechanics in a hostile, open-world setting that requires careful resource management.
- #18 Scrapnaut
84% matchMixed70% of 839 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 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: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Survival 10.5%, Building 9.8%, Base Building 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on building and survival in a stylized, resource-heavy open world that emphasizes crafting and base defense.
- #19 Cubic Odyssey
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,754 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 33.1% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 8.7%, Co-op 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a co-op focused survival experience with base building and exploration elements set in a modular world.
- #20 Dyson Sphere Program
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,831 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 76.0 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: Base Building 25.9%, Resource Management 14.1%, Space 13.8%, Open World 12.9%, Building 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on large-scale resource management and industrial construction across multiple planets, perfect for fans of technical expansion.
- #21 KeepUp Survival
82% matchMixed64% of 751 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 9.3%, Open World 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a straightforward survival experience with a focus on base building, crafting, and exploration.
- #22 Star Crafter
81% matchMostly Positive70% of 110 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 24% ★, Mining 13.5% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 9.3%, Resource Management 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the mining and base-building aspects of planetary survival in a sci-fi setting.
- #23 SpaceCraft
79% matchMixed64% of 2,773 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 54.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
Why similar: Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 11.3%, Sandbox 10.7%, Resource Management 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on large-scale space exploration and construction in a multiplayer environment that encourages collaborative building.
- #24 Green Hell
79% matchVery Positive85% of 102,938 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Survival 11.8%, Online Co-Op 10%, Crafting 8.4%, Base Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: While not space-themed, it offers the same level of granular, technical survival and crafting complexity that fans of Occupy Mars will appreciate.
- #25 Horizon Journey
80% matchMostly Negative25% of 88 reviews2026
Dev: Redivided Studios
Windows
Embark on an epic adventure to Mars in Horizon Journey, an open-world survival game that blends colonization, terraforming, and exploration in both single-player and multiplayer co-op modes. You're tasked with the monumental challenge of making Mars a new home for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Survival 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the core loop of crafting and survival in an open-world environment with a first-person perspective.
- #26 Hardspace: Shipbreaker
78% matchVery Positive89% of 22,441 reviews2022
Dev: Blackbird Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!
Why similar: Space 25.8%, Sandbox 21.8%, Sci-fi 14.9%, Building 9.9%, First-Person 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the technical, hands-on repair and salvage gameplay loop found in the maintenance tasks of Occupy Mars.
- #27 Blossom: The Seed of Life
77% matchVery Positive88% of 1,126 reviews2026
Dev: Pebbledust GamesPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 22.2% ★, Mars 22.1% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 7.1%, Sandbox 5.9%
- #28 Solarpunk™
76% matchVery Positive81% of 4,581 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 26% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Open World 7.3%
- #29 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
76% matchVery Positive91% of 7,668 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 27.4% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 8.5%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Open World 7.3%
- #30 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,722 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 25.6% ★, Mars 13.5% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 9%, Crafting 8.8%
- #31 Last Breath
74% matchVery Positive84% of 80 reviews2026
Dev: Mx
Windows
Last Breath is a solo/cooperative terraforming survival game. Dig through terrain, build powerful machines, and restore life to a dead planet. Work together to survive, automate, and reshape the world from the ground up, literally.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Mining 8.2% ★
- #32 Voidtrain
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 9,990 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 33.5% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 8.4%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Survival 8%
- #33 Astrometica
74% matchVery Positive82% of 3,211 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 19.1% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 11.8%
- #34 Drift: Space Survival
75% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 30.2% ★, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Crafting 9%, Survival 8.9%, Base Building 8.2%
- #35 Space Trash Scavenger
73% matchVery Positive83% of 528 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 31.1% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 9.2%, Open World 8.2%
- #36 Skyformer
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 96 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 24.4% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 8.9%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Survival 7.5%
- #37 Stars End
73% matchMixed61% of 1,432 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 27.2% ★, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 8.5%, Co-op 8%
- #38 Per Aspera
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,783 reviews2020
Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Why similar: Mars 24.9% ★, Online Co-Op 17.1%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 7.9%
- #39 Breathedge 2
69% matchVery Positive87% of 1,680 reviews2026
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 33.4% ★, Survival 11.4%, Sandbox 8.3%, Crafting 7.7%, Space 7.6%
- #40 Project Castaway
70% matchMixed65% of 1,893 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 8.1%, Crafting 7.3%
- #41 Sandustry
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 27.1% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 9%, Open World 8.7%
- #42 Remains
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 323 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: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #43 Life Not Supported
71% matchMixed67% of 173 reviews2023
Dev: YETIBYTES
Windows · Linux
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 27.9% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 8.7%, Building 7%
- #44 Starsand
70% matchMixed66% of 1,268 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 26.7% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 8.5%, Open World 8.2%
- #45 The Last Caretaker
66% matchVery Positive86% of 13,935 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 37.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Base Building 17.7%, Crafting 14.9%, Survival 12.3%, Resource Management 11.8%, Open World 11.6%
- #46 Planetaries
69% matchMixed58% of 228 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 8%
- #47 Planetbase
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,466 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.2 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 28.8%, Survival 16.6%, Space 14.5%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 7.6%
- #48 FOUNDRY
67% matchVery Positive81% of 3,960 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.8 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: Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 12.6%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Resource Management 10.6%, Open World 10.2%
- #49 Outpost Zero
71% matchMixed48% of 853 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Survival 14.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 8.8%
- #50 The Infected
68% matchVery Positive84% of 7,020 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 8.8%, Survival 8.7%
- #51 Solace Crafting
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 899 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 8.9%, Online Co-Op 8.5%
- #52 Under A New Sun
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 406 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
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 36% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.3%
- #53 Abiotic Factor
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 59,444 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 21.2 hrsMean: 46.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Survival 9.4%
- #54 Farworld Pioneers
68% matchMostly Negative37% of 703 reviews2023
Dev: IgloosoftPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #55 GRAV
69% matchMixed47% of 6,922 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 10%, Crafting 8.6%
