- #1 The Planet Crafter
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 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 23.4% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Automation 10%, Online Co-Op 7.6%, Crafting 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game is the definitive experience for terraforming a hostile planet through base-building and resource management.
- #2 Eden Crafters
96% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Automation 13.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 7.7%, Online Co-Op 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: This is the full version of the seed game, offering the complete experience of transforming a planet into a habitable haven.
- #3 Satisfactory
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 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 17.6%, Base Building 15.4%, Open World Survival Craft 12.3% ★, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the most polished and expansive automation and factory-building experience in a beautiful open-world setting.
- #4 ASTRONEER
95% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 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 28.5% ★, Base Building 10%, Open World 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Automation 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on planetary exploration and terrain deformation with a strong emphasis on creative base-building and resource gathering.
- #5 FOUNDRY
94% matchVery Positive81% of 3,508 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 15.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Online Co-Op 9%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory-building game set in an infinite voxel world that perfectly mirrors the automation focus of the seed game.
- #6 ICARUS
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Crafting 8%, Multiplayer 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features session-based survival and terraforming missions on a hostile alien planet with a strong focus on co-op play.
- #7 Techtonica
93% matchMixed65% of 3,183 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.1 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 21.4%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 9.1%, Resource Management 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory automation game set in a beautiful, bioluminescent subterranean alien world.
- #8 Dyson Sphere Program
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 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 26.7%, Base Building 20.1%, Space 9.6%, Open World 9.6%, Resource Management 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a massive scale for automation and logistics, challenging players to build industrial systems across multiple planets.
- #9 Forever Skies
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 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 25.5% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 9%, Open World 7.9%, Multiplayer 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A high-tech survival game where you build and customize a massive airship to explore a ruined, toxic Earth.
- #10 Subnautica
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 40.0 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 40.2% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for ocean-based survival and exploration, sharing the aquatic theme and base-building progression.
- #11 Factorio
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 188.9 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 27%, Base Building 19.8%, Resource Management 10.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Sandbox 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: The foundational game for automation and logistics, offering deep complexity for players who enjoy optimizing production chains.
- #12 Raft
89% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 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 35.1% ★, Multiplayer 9.7%, Survival 9.3%, Base Building 8.2%, Crafting 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: An ocean-based survival game that requires constant base expansion and resource management while adrift at sea.
- #13 Voidtrain
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,176 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.8 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 34.2% ★, Base Building 10%, Online Co-Op 7.6%, Crafting 7.5%, Multiplayer 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and crafting with a unique mechanic of building and upgrading a train that travels through an interdimensional void.
- #14 No Man's Sky
88% matchVery Positive85% of 402,164 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 40.2% ★, Open World 12.6%, Space 8.8%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Sandbox 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers unparalleled planetary exploration, base-building, and resource management across a vast, procedurally generated universe.
- #15 Volcanoids
87% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 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: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Base Building 10%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A steampunk survival game where you operate a drillship to explore and automate resource collection on a volcanic island.
- #16 TerraTech Worlds
86% matchMixed63% of 2,175 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 22.1 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 25.3% ★, Base Building 12%, Automation 9.2%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Allows for extensive vehicle and base building in an open-world environment with a focus on exploration and resource gathering.
- #17 Omega Crafter
85% matchMostly Positive79% of 560 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 25.4% ★, Automation 16.2%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 8.5%, Multiplayer 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features automation and survival mechanics where players use programmable companions to help build and manage their base.
- #18 Astro Colony
86% matchVery Positive82% of 2,509 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 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 19.8%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 9.4%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Crafting 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and automating a space station while exploring a procedurally generated galaxy.
- #19 Occupy Mars: The Game
83% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,012 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 14.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Resource Management 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A technical survival game focused on the challenges of establishing a colony on Mars, including power management and base construction.
- #20 Astrometica
82% matchVery Positive83% of 2,970 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 17.8 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 18.3% ★, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A space-themed survival game that tasks players with building a base and managing resources while adrift in the debris of space.
- #21 Ylands
84% matchMixed64% of 8,354 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 28.9% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 9.7%, Online Co-Op 8%, Multiplayer 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A colorful, sandbox-style exploration game that offers extensive building and crafting tools in a multiplayer setting.
- #22 Survival Machine
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Base Building 12%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Crafting 9%, Open World 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game centered around building and upgrading a mobile base to traverse dangerous landscapes.
- #23 Stationeers
82% matchVery Positive88% of 8,897 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 81.9 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 18.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Resource Management 8.7%, Sandbox 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that demands complex atmospheric and electrical engineering to build a functional base in space.
- #24 Hydroneer
81% matchVery Positive86% of 27,097 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 22.3 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 17.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Open World 9.4%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on mining and automation, allowing players to build elaborate machinery to extract resources from the earth.
- #25 Skyformer
79% matchVery Positive90% of 59 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 24.9% ★, Automation 14.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automation and base-building in a survival context, challenging players to optimize their production lines.
- #26 Cubic Odyssey
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,483 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 31.3% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 8.5%, Building 7.6%, Open World 7%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that blends base-building and exploration in a sandbox environment.
- #27 Eco
80% matchVery Positive81% of 13,777 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 88.2 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 30.8% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A unique survival game where players must build a civilization while managing the environmental impact of their resource extraction.
- #28 StarRupture
76% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 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 24.1% ★, Automation 13.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 6.9%
- #29 Dawnlands
79% matchMixed52% of 3,131 reviews2023
Dev: SEASUN GAMES PTE. LTD.
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Dawnlands is an Open-World Survival Crafting cross-platform game with a massive world and epic lore. A variety of biomes, relics, and puzzles dot the landscape... an ancient land, lain dormant for centuries, is waiting to be awoken. New stories are waiting to be written.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Base Building 10%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Crafting 8.9%, Multiplayer 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival craft game that emphasizes exploration and building in a vast, vibrant landscape.
- #30 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,643 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% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 7.6%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #31 Planetaries
78% matchMixed59% of 222 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% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused game that emphasizes co-op exploration and building on alien worlds.
- #32 Astrometica: Prologue
76% matchVery Positive90% of 1,281 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.1 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 17.3%, Automation 16.5%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 9.8%
- #33 Once Human
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 167,251 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 50.2 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 34.9% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Open World 10.1%, Multiplayer 9.4%
- #34 Dark Hours: Prologue
75% matchVery Positive88% of 5,427 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 39.2%, Multiplayer 33.5%, Co-op 15%, Exploration 9%, Adventure 3.3%
- #35 Grapples Galore
74% matchVery Positive91% of 9,915 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 89.5%, 3D 10.5%
- #36 Supermarket Together
72% matchVery Positive95% of 88,985 reviews2024
Dev: DeadDevsTellNoLies
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.5 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%, Multiplayer 25.3%, Simulation 9.9%, Building 8.4%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #37 One-armed robber
73% matchVery Positive91% of 48,093 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 26.8%, Simulation 8.9%, First-Person 8.4%, 3D 4.3%
- #38 The Last Caretaker
71% matchVery Positive85% of 9,793 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 30.9 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 20.7%, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 11.5%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #39 Supermarket Simulator: Prologue
71% matchVery Positive94% of 4,535 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 27.2%, Building 20.6%, Sandbox 19.1%, Resource Management 11.7%, Simulation 10.8%
- #40 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,087 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.7 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 30.5% ★, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 8.5%, Building 8.1%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #41 Horizon Journey
72% matchMostly Negative25% of 81 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 25.7% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 9%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Open World 7.5%
- #42 Project Castaway
68% matchMixed67% of 1,632 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Sandbox 7%, Open World 6.9%
- #43 Shamania
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 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 26.2% ★, Automation 10.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 8.7%, Online Co-Op 7%
- #44 Star Crafter
69% 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 26.6% ★, Automation 12.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 9%, Resource Management 7.1%
- #45 Blossom: The Seed of Life
67% matchVery Positive90% of 654 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 28.2% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Automation 11.6%, Crafting 8.2%, Sandbox 7%
- #46 World Crafter TD: Prologue
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 99 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 31.8% ★, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 10.6%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #47 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 198 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 25.9% ★, Automation 16.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 9.5%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #48 Solace Crafting
70% 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% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Open World 7.7%
- #49 Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 44,721 reviews2023
Dev: Toxic DogPub: Excalibur Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Builder. Farmer. Hunter. Trader. Ranching certainly isn’t your average job. Think you have the skills to turn your family’s rundown homestead into the most prosperous ranch in the valley? Then it’s time to head out into the wilderness in this captivating single and multiplayer open-world simulator.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 24.5%, Multiplayer 19.8%, Open World 19.6%, Sandbox 13.4%, Co-op 11.7%
- #50 Screw Drivers
67% matchVery Positive86% of 5,641 reviews2024
Dev: CreactstudiosPub: Headup
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 48%
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 32%, Building 28.2%, Multiplayer 26.7%, Simulation 8.1%, 3D 5%
- #51 XenoHaven
66% matchVery Positive86% of 64 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 25.4% ★, Base Building 13%, Open World 9.5%, Automation 8.8%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #52 Ale & Tale Tavern: First Pints
66% matchVery Positive94% of 4,710 reviews2024
Dev: Scienart GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
This is the free version of the game "Ale & Tale Tavern". Get ready for a thrilling mix of genres: a cooperative, first-person, open-world fantasy tavern simulator, action, fishing, hunting, exploration, and completing fun and diverse quests. And, of course, COOKING!
Why similar: Sandbox 30.8%, Crafting 22.1%, Multiplayer 19%, Simulation 11%, First-Person 10.5%
- #53 One-armed cook
66% matchVery Positive92% of 30,673 reviews2022
Dev: Duhndal
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 50%
One-armed cook is a chaotic co-op cooking game for up to 4 people. Work as a team or cook on your own, set your own pace, and don't let the stress of a full restaurant catch up to you. The goofy physics-based aspect of the game gives this cooking game a new twist.
Why similar: Multiplayer 32.9%, Online Co-Op 22.5%, Co-op 19%, Sandbox 9.9%, Simulation 7.4%
- #54 GRAV
71% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.5 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 12.4%, Open World 9.3%, Survival 7.9%, Crafting 7.5%