- #1 The Planet Crafter
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 71,038 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 38.2 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 23.9% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Automation 9.6%, Online Co-Op 7.5%, Crafting 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the core focus on terraforming a hostile planet into a habitable world through survival and base-building mechanics.
- #2 Satisfactory
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 273,405 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.9 hrsMean: 110.9 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 17.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Open World Survival Craft 12.5% ★, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game is the gold standard for first-person factory automation and large-scale base construction in an alien open world.
- #3 ASTRONEER
96% matchVery Positive92% of 138,295 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 28.8% ★, Base Building 10%, Open World 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Automation 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features a similar vibrant, space-faring aesthetic with a strong emphasis on terrain manipulation and modular base building.
- #4 FOUNDRY
95% matchVery Positive81% of 3,835 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 47.6 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 15.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 9.4%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that captures the same satisfaction of building sprawling, efficient factories in a vast open world.
- #5 Dyson Sphere Program
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 90,956 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 26.2%, Base Building 20.3%, Space 9.8%, Open World 9.7%, Resource Management 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers deep automation and logistics challenges on a galactic scale, perfect for players who enjoy the technical side of Eden Crafters.
- #6 Astro Colony
93% matchVery Positive81% of 2,634 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 9.1%, Crafting 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines space exploration with colony management and automation, allowing players to build interconnected bases across multiple planets.
- #7 ICARUS
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 64,520 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.3 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 11.6%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Crafting 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that emphasizes building and resource gathering in a challenging, atmospheric alien environment.
- #8 Factorio
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 230,973 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 45.0 hrsMean: 191.3 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 26.7%, Base Building 20%, Resource Management 10.6%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive automation experience that challenges players to manage complex resource chains while defending against environmental threats.
- #9 Omega Crafter
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 569 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 28.2% ★, Automation 15%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 7.3%, Multiplayer 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Blends survival and crafting with automation, where players can program companions to handle repetitive tasks.
- #10 Techtonica
91% matchMixed65% of 3,212 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.4 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%, Base Building 14.5%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on underground automation and exploration, providing a unique twist on the resource-management loop found in Eden Crafters.
- #11 Occupy Mars: The Game
90% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,088 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.1 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 14.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Resource Management 9%
Why You'll Like It: A highly technical survival game that focuses on the realistic challenges of establishing a base on a harsh, desolate planet.
- #12 Raft
89% matchVery Positive93% of 373,485 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.5 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 8.1%, Crafting 8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on ocean-based survival and modular base expansion, requiring clever resource management to thrive in a water-covered world.
- #13 TerraTech Worlds
89% matchMixed63% of 2,250 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 25.6% ★, Base Building 12%, Automation 9%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Allows for creative vehicle and base construction in a sandbox environment that rewards exploration and resource gathering.
- #14 Once Human
88% matchMostly Positive78% of 176,635 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 51.1 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 35.3% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Open World 10%, Multiplayer 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer open-world survival game that features extensive base building and cooperative exploration elements.
- #15 StarRupture
86% matchVery Positive81% of 12,717 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 23.8 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 13.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 7.5%, Open World 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building and automation with survival elements in a visually striking alien environment.
- #16 Subnautica
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 373,268 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.6 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 40.4% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an unparalleled underwater survival and base-building experience that mirrors the aquatic themes of the seed game.
- #17 No Man's Sky
86% matchVery Positive85% of 410,213 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.5 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: Offers an infinite universe of procedurally generated planets to explore, build upon, and terraform.
- #18 Astrometica
84% matchVery Positive83% of 3,114 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 16.7 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 18.5% ★, Automation 15.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 11%, Open World 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A space-sim survival game that tasks players with building and maintaining a base while navigating the dangers of space.
- #19 Eco
83% matchVery Positive81% of 13,944 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.7 hrsMean: 89.9 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 14.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 9.2%, Resource Management 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on resource management and environmental impact, requiring players to build and maintain a civilization without destroying the ecosystem.
- #20 Stationeers
82% matchVery Positive88% of 9,070 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 84.1 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 17.8%, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 8.6%, Resource Management 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore simulation game that demands deep knowledge of atmospheric and electrical systems for successful base operations.
- #21 Planetaries
82% matchMixed58% of 224 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 10.7%, Online Co-Op 9%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that focuses on cooperative exploration and building on diverse planetary surfaces.
- #22 Hydroneer
81% matchVery Positive86% of 28,029 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.9 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 19.9%, Base Building 17.5%, Sandbox 9.7%, Open World 9.4%, Multiplayer 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on mining and automation, where players build complex machines to extract resources from the earth.
- #23 Valheim
79% matchVery Positive94% of 535,809 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.9 hrsMean: 77.4 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 32.3% ★, 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 rewarding survival and building loops in the genre for cooperative play.
- #24 Cubic Odyssey
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,655 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.0 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 15.6%, Sandbox 9%, Building 8.6%, Co-op 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a cooperative open-world experience with a focus on building and RPG-lite progression.
- #25 Eden Crafters
77% matchVery Positive86% of 2,494 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 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 23.7% ★, Automation 12.9%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 7.4%, Online Co-Op 6.3%
- #26 Subsistence
80% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,713 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.2 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 40.7% ★, Crafting 10%, Base Building 8.7%, Survival 8.4%, Open World 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game that forces players to build secure bases and manage resources against AI and environmental threats.
- #27 Star Crafter
78% 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 27.1% ★, Automation 12%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 9%, Resource Management 7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the core loop of mining, crafting, and base-building within a space-themed exploration setting.
- #28 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,685 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 28.4% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 7.6%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #29 Grapples Galore
74% matchVery Positive91% of 10,742 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 Astrometica: Prologue
75% matchVery Positive90% of 1,293 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 52%
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 16.1%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 9.9%
- #31 Skyformer
75% 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 25.3% ★, Automation 14.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 8%, Open World 6.5%
- #32 One-armed robber
73% matchVery Positive91% of 50,760 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 51.9%, Co-op 27.3%, Simulation 8.7%, First-Person 8%, 3D 4%
- #33 Dark Hours: Prologue
73% matchVery Positive88% of 5,835 reviews2024
Dev: Piece of Cake studios
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.1 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 38.7%, Multiplayer 34%, Co-op 15.2%, Exploration 8.8%, Adventure 3.3%
- #34 Forever Skies
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,533 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 31.9 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 25.9% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 7.8%, Co-op 6.2%
- #35 Supermarket Together
71% matchVery Positive94% of 94,059 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 35.2%, Multiplayer 26.1%, Simulation 9.9%, Building 8.3%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #36 Ylands
76% matchMixed64% of 8,407 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 29.3% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 9.6%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.7%
- #37 Screw Drivers
72% matchVery Positive85% of 6,162 reviews2024
Dev: CreactstudiosPub: Headup
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 11.2 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 31.5%, Building 28.6%, Multiplayer 27%, Simulation 8%, 3D 4.8%
- #38 Solarpunk™
70% matchVery Positive82% of 2,601 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 24.2% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Automation 10.1%, Crafting 7.8%, Online Co-Op 7.7%
- #39 SpaceCraft
70% matchMixed69% of 1,804 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 24.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Automation 14.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 9.6%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #40 Volcanoids
72% matchVery Positive83% of 9,287 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 15.8%, Crafting 12.2%, Online Co-Op 10%, Sandbox 9.5%, Open World 9.3%
- #41 Supermarket Simulator: Prologue
69% matchVery Positive94% of 4,663 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 27.6%, Building 20.7%, Sandbox 18.8%, Resource Management 11.4%, Simulation 10.9%
- #42 The Last Caretaker
66% matchVery Positive86% of 11,569 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.1 hrsMean: 33.9 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 19.6%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 10.3%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #43 World Crafter TD: Prologue
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 102 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 32.3% ★, Automation 15.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 10.6%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #44 Shamania
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 150 reviews2026
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 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 8.7%, Online Co-Op 6.9%
- #45 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,243 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.9 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 30.8% ★, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 8.1%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #46 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 26.3% ★, Automation 16%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #47 Outpath: First Journey
67% 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 28.9% ★, Automation 16.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #48 Ale & Tale Tavern: First Pints
65% matchVery Positive94% of 4,733 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 30.5%, Crafting 22.1%, Multiplayer 19.3%, Simulation 11%, First-Person 10.5%
- #49 Voidtrain
65% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,560 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.6 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%
- #50 GRAV
71% 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 38.3% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 9.3%, Survival 8%, Crafting 7.4%
- #51 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 25.7% ★, Base Building 13%, Open World 9.6%, Automation 8.6%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #52 Blossom: The Seed of Life
64% matchVery Positive89% of 931 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 28.9% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Automation 11.3%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 6.9%
