- #1 Eden Crafters
97% matchVery Positive86% of 2,425 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 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 23.6% ★, Automation 13.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 7.4%, Online Co-Op 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: This is the full version of the seed game, offering the complete experience of planetary transformation and automation.
- #2 The Planet Crafter
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 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 23.8% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Automation 9.7%, Online Co-Op 7.5%, Crafting 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive terraforming survival game that shares the exact core gameplay loop of turning a barren world into a lush paradise.
- #3 Satisfactory
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 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 17.4%, Base Building 15.6%, Open World Survival Craft 12.4% ★, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for first-person factory building and automation, perfect for players who enjoy the complex logistics of Eden Crafters.
- #4 ASTRONEER
95% matchVery Positive92% of 137,959 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.2 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 28.7% ★, Base Building 10%, Open World 8.3%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Automation 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features similar voxel-based terrain manipulation and space exploration with a strong focus on base building and cooperative play.
- #5 ICARUS
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 63,962 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.0 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 29.3% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Crafting 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that focuses on planetary exploration and base construction in a hostile sci-fi environment.
- #6 FOUNDRY
94% matchVery Positive81% of 3,779 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 46.3 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 15.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 9.4%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory-building game that combines voxel-based world manipulation with massive-scale automation.
- #7 Techtonica
93% matchMixed65% of 3,202 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.2 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 20.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Building 8.7%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory automation game set in a beautiful, bioluminescent alien world that emphasizes base building and resource management.
- #8 Astro Colony
92% matchVery Positive82% of 2,526 reviews2022
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 19.6%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 9.3%, Multiplayer 8%, Crafting 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and automating interconnected space stations, mirroring the resource management and expansion goals of the seed game.
- #9 Dyson Sphere Program
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,697 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.1 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 26.2%, Base Building 20.1%, Open World 9.6%, Space 9.6%, Resource Management 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an unparalleled sense of scale in automation and space exploration, perfect for those who enjoy the engineering side of survival games.
- #10 Forever Skies
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 32.0 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 25.7% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 9%, Open World 7.8%, Co-op 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A high-tech survival game where you build and customize a mobile airship base while exploring a ruined, transformed Earth.
- #11 Occupy Mars: The Game
89% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,070 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Resource Management 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A highly technical survival game focused on the challenges of colonizing Mars, including power management and base construction.
- #12 TerraTech Worlds
90% matchMixed63% of 2,228 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 25.5% ★, Base Building 12%, Automation 9.1%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes building custom vehicles and bases to explore and conquer alien planets.
- #13 Omega Crafter
89% matchMostly Positive80% of 566 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Automation 16%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.5%, Multiplayer 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world survival with automation, allowing players to program helpers to build and gather resources.
- #14 Raft
88% matchVery Positive93% of 372,032 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.3% ★, Multiplayer 9.7%, Survival 9.3%, Base Building 8.2%, Crafting 8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on ocean-based survival where you must expand your base while gathering resources from the water, similar to the oceanic setting of the seed.
- #15 Subnautica
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 365,018 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 39.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: The premier ocean-based survival game that captures the sense of isolation and wonder found in water-heavy survival environments.
- #16 StarRupture
86% matchVery Positive81% of 12,313 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 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 13.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: An upcoming open-world survival game that emphasizes automation and base building on a dynamic, changing alien planet.
- #17 Voidtrain
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,447 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 14.0 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 34.3% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Online Co-Op 7.5%, Crafting 7.4%, Multiplayer 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique survival experience where you build and upgrade a train base while traveling through an interdimensional void.
- #18 Once Human
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 173,391 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 50.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a multiplayer open-world survival game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Open World 10%, Multiplayer 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer open-world survival game that features base building and resource management in a strange, post-apocalyptic setting.
- #19 Ylands
86% matchMixed64% of 8,392 reviews2019
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 9.6%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A colorful sandbox survival game that allows for creative building and exploration in a variety of different biomes.
- #20 Astrometica
82% matchVery Positive83% of 3,055 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 18.5% ★, Automation 15.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 11%, Open World 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A space-themed survival game that focuses on building a base in zero-gravity environments while managing oxygen and resources.
- #21 No Man's Sky
83% matchVery Positive85% of 406,987 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.2 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.4% ★, Open World 12.6%, Space 8.8%, Multiplayer 6.8%, Sandbox 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a massive universe to explore with extensive base-building, terraforming, and resource-gathering mechanics.
- #22 Stationeers
82% matchVery Positive88% of 9,014 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 83.9 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 18%, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Resource Management 8.6%, Sandbox 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A deep, complex simulation of space station construction and atmospheric management for players who want a more hardcore engineering challenge.
- #23 Hydroneer
81% matchVery Positive86% of 27,793 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Automation 20.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Sandbox 9.7%, Open World 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A mining and base-building game that focuses heavily on creating automated machinery to process resources.
- #24 Valheim
79% matchVery Positive94% of 534,015 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.8 hrsMean: 76.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Online Co-Op 10%, Base Building 9.8%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: While fantasy-themed, it offers one of the most satisfying base-building and cooperative survival loops in the genre.
- #25 Planetaries
81% matchMixed58% of 223 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 27.3% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game focused on planetary exploration and cooperative base building in a sci-fi setting.
- #26 Eco
80% matchVery Positive81% of 13,905 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 89.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 8.7%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A simulation game where players must work together to build a civilization and manage the environment to prevent a global catastrophe.
- #27 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,680 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 28.3% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 7.6%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #28 Astrometica: Prologue
77% matchVery Positive90% of 1,290 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Astrometica: Prologue is the free game about surviving in space. You need to use your skills and tools to stay alive. There are many challenges to face, and you need to fight to survive. You also need to build a new base in space.
Why similar: Base Building 17.4%, Automation 16.3%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 9.9%
- #29 Grapples Galore
75% matchVery Positive91% of 10,462 reviews2025
Dev: Zoteling
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 1.6 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Grapples Galore is a fast-paced online multiplayer arena shooter with physics-based grappling hook movement, active ragdolls, and thrilling gunplay.
Why similar: Multiplayer 89.7%, 3D 10.3%
- #30 Skyformer
76% matchVery Positive87% of 67 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 25.2% ★, Automation 14.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 8%, Open World 6.5%
- #31 Dark Hours: Prologue
76% matchVery Positive88% of 5,700 reviews2024
Dev: Piece of Cake studios
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Dark Hours: Prologue is a free co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with a monster. Forget your plan, your mission: survive! Explore and cooperate to find a way out or hide and wish for daylight.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 38.8%, Multiplayer 34%, Co-op 15%, Exploration 8.9%, Adventure 3.3%
- #32 One-armed robber
74% matchVery Positive91% of 49,896 reviews2023
Dev: Duhndal
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 58%
One-armed robber is a chaotic first-person heist game that centers around a uniquely challenging premise. Players take the role of a determined robber equipped with only one arm, tasked with pulling off daring heists on banks, shops, and various establishments.
Why similar: Multiplayer 51.6%, Co-op 27.2%, Simulation 8.8%, First-Person 8.2%, 3D 4.1%
- #33 Supermarket Together
73% matchVery Positive94% of 92,376 reviews2024
Dev: DeadDevsTellNoLies
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 35.1%, Multiplayer 25.9%, Simulation 9.9%, Building 8.3%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #34 Cubic Odyssey
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,584 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 35.9% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 9%, Building 8.6%, Co-op 7.1%
- #35 Star Crafter
73% matchMixed69% of 104 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 27% ★, Automation 12.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 9%, Resource Management 7%
- #36 Screw Drivers
71% matchVery Positive85% of 5,994 reviews2024
Dev: CreactstudiosPub: Headup
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Crazy physics and high-speed races! Craft vehicles cleverly by combining building blocks and mechanical parts to create powerful drivetrains. Unlock new parts, race for the gold, and challenge your friends in multiplayer.
Why similar: Crafting 31.6%, Building 28.5%, Multiplayer 27%, Simulation 8.1%, 3D 4.9%
- #37 The Last Caretaker
69% matchVery Positive86% of 11,047 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 32.0 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: Automation 19.8%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 10.3%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #38 Stranded Deep
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,389 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.6% ★, Multiplayer 9.8%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 8.6%
- #39 Blossom: The Seed of Life
69% matchVery Positive89% of 884 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 28.8% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Automation 11.5%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 6.9%
- #40 World Crafter TD: Prologue
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 101 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
A highly addictive survival crafting tower defense game! Gather, craft, build turrets, shoot guns, and expand the land to defend against waves of enemies! The prologue for the full game, World Crafter TD!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Automation 15.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 10.6%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #41 Muck
68% matchVery Positive93% of 183,134 reviews2021
Dev: Dani
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.
Why similar: Crafting 17.4%, Survival 15.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Multiplayer 15%, Open World 12.7%
- #42 Farworld Pioneers
72% matchMostly Negative38% of 693 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 27.7% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.2%, Online Co-Op 9%, Co-op 7.6%
- #43 Stars End
70% matchMixed61% of 1,419 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.3 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 29.1% ★, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Crafting 7.9%, Co-op 7.8%
- #44 Shamania
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Automation 10.2%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 8.7%, Online Co-Op 7%
- #45 GRAV
72% matchMixed47% of 6,921 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 38.2% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 9.3%, Survival 7.9%, Crafting 7.4%
- #46 Volcanoids
69% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 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 15.8%, Crafting 12.2%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Sandbox 9.5%, Open World 9.2%
- #47 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 201 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 26.2% ★, Automation 16.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #48 XenoHaven
66% 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 25.6% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Open World 9.5%, Automation 8.7%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #49 Supermarket Simulator: Prologue
66% matchVery Positive94% of 4,619 reviews2024
Dev: Nokta Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Start running your own supermarket with Prologue already. Stock shelves, handle cashier tasks, process online orders, design & expand. Set the prices based on the market. Be prepared to face the consequences if you fail to make the nightly repayment to the gangs.
Why similar: Multiplayer 27.5%, Building 20.7%, Sandbox 18.8%, Resource Management 11.5%, Simulation 10.9%
- #50 Project Castaway
65% matchMixed67% of 1,723 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 29.3% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Open World 6.9%, Sandbox 6.9%
- #51 Breathedge
67% matchVery Positive82% of 16,224 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.3% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 8.4%, Crafting 8%, Space 7.8%
- #52 Solace Crafting
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 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 28.3% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.4%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Open World 7.6%
