
A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.
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A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.

Flotsam
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Space Haven
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 12.1%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 7.3%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 10.9%, Building 10.8%, Management 8.7%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Underwater 18.2% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 11.2%
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 24.7% ★, Colony Sim 13.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 9%
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: Colony Sim 29.8%, Base Building 19.2%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.8%, Resource Management 7.5%
Explore a fantasy ocean-punk world, braving the deep with steam-powered marvels. Discover mysterious underwater treasures, but scarcity and ecological crises test survival. Rise, build, confront foes in this pixel-art ocean survival journey!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 10.7%, Building 10.3%, Management 7.7%
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Why similar: Underwater 25.4% ★, Colony Sim 24.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 9.5%, Management 6.8%
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 11%, Survival 10.2%, Management 6.4%
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 17.6%, Crafting 17.5%, Survival 15.3%, Management 11.4%, Open World 8.6%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, Base Building 17%, Survival 13.1%, Building 9.2%, Resource Management 6.3%
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Why similar: Colony Sim 35.4%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 15.3%, Management 11.4%, Resource Management 5.7%
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Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Building 7.6%, Management 6%
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Why similar: Underwater 34.6% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Building 10.1%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 8.6%
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 26.2% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 12.4%, Building 10.4%
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 33.9% ★, Survival 18.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Base Building 9%, Building 8.9%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Underwater 26% ★, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 9.8%
Voyagers of Nera is a cooperative survival-crafting game where you must survive a magical ocean world brimming with lost spirits and deadly monsters. Sail to distant islands, build beautiful villages and surf across the waves with up to 10 players.
Why similar: Underwater 31.6% ★, Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 13.8%, Building 12.6%
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: Colony Sim 22.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 11.1%, Survival 10.7%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 10.9%
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Crafting 13.5%, Survival 12.3%, Building 12.1%, Base Building 11.9%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, Base Building 19.9%, Survival 17.2%, Crafting 12.9%, Management 7%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Crafting 18.6%, Building 16.6%, Survival 16.5%, Open World 7%
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 27.7% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 11.7%, Building 11.4%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Base Building 14%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 8%, Building 6%
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 29.5% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 14.4%, Building 12.9%, Survival 11.6%
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: Colony Sim 37.1%, Base Building 16.9%, Survival 12.3%, Building 6.5%, Management 4.9%
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Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Colony Sim 19.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.6%
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 29.3% ★, Underwater 19.3% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 10.6%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 10.1%, Management 9.1%, Sci-fi 7.8%
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 27.7% ★, Underwater 25.9% ★, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Base Building 9.7%
A sci-fi base building survival game, featuring raids, agriculture, intelligent AI, natural disasters and more.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.4% ★, Underwater 18.3% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 9.2%, Building 9.1%
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Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Open World Survival Craft 12.4% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 9.7%
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Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 9.4%, Survival 8.8%
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Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 10.6%, Building 9.1%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 11.7%, Management 9%
Survive in a world ravaged by massive Titans and an ever changing ocean sim. Displace water to find resources for building and crafting unique items. Swim, sail, and fly to explore new islands and fight Titans.
Why similar: Building 20.8%, Survival 20.2%, Crafting 17.1%, Open World 11.1%, Sandbox 10.8%
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 40.2% ★, Survival 17%, Crafting 12.4%, Underwater 9.7% ★, Building 6.8%
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 23.6% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 10.4%
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 26.6% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 15%, Building 10.8%, Management 8%
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Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 11%, Survival 10.3%
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Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 11.4%, Building 11.2%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 11%, Survival 8.5%, Management 8.2%
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Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 9.5%, Building 9.3%
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: Crafting 19.6%, Base Building 19.3%, Building 16.7%, Survival 15.9%, Sandbox 9.3%
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Why similar: Colony Sim 54.8%, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 11.5%, Strategy 6.5%, Resource Management 4.8%
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Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.5% ★, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 8.3%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.5% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 9.4%
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 11.8%, Survival 9.4%, Management 8.7%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1%, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 13.2%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 7.1%
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Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 13.5%, Survival 12.1%, Management 8.5%
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 11.8%, Building 7.9%, Procedural Generation 7.2%
Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.
Why similar: Underwater 27.3% ★, Colony Sim 25.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 11.2%, Survival 10%
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Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 11.8%
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Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Underwater 21.5% ★, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 9%
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6%, Base Building 16%, Building 8.3%, Survival 7.4%, Management 6.2%
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 22.6% ★, Colony Sim 22.4%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9.3%
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Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 8.5%, Survival 8.4%, Crafting 8.2%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1%, Survival 17.5%, Base Building 14.6%, Building 8.5%, Strategy 7.7%
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: Colony Sim 25%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 11.4%, Survival 11.2%