Games Like One Hour One Life

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: Building 25.7%, Crafting 24.9%, Survival 18.7%, Open World 18.6%, Simulation 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Requires players to work together to build a civilization while managing the environmental impact of their collective progress.

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.7% ★, Building 16.9%, Survival 14%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes building and survival, allowing players to manage a growing community in a charming, stylized world.

Survive your evolution in Neogene Africa starting 10 million years ago. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a third-person open world survival game where you Explore, Expand, and Evolve to advance your clan to the next generation in the exciting new adventure from Panache Digital Games.

Why similar: Survival 26.7%, Crafting 25.3%, Open World 23.9%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Simulation 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the evolution of a lineage over generations, emphasizing survival and discovery in a harsh prehistoric world.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Agriculture 19.6% ★, Life Sim 15.3%, Crafting 13%, Building 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A generational survival game where you manage a family through the seasons, focusing on legacy and long-term sustainability.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Crafting 25.3%, Building 21.9%, Agriculture 19.6% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and building mechanics with a strong focus on establishing a family lineage and managing a growing village.

Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7% ★, Life Sim 14.6%, Crafting 14.3%, Building 12.9%, Survival 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the early stages of human civilization, requiring players to manage tribes and resources to advance their technology.

A free-to-play MMORPG with crafting, building, landscaping, foraging, hunting, fishing, a dash of poetry, and open PvP combat,

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 18.6%, Agriculture 17.2% ★, Perma Death 14.8%, Cooking 14%, Crafting 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox MMO that captures the feeling of starting from scratch in a wilderness and slowly building a complex society.

A sandbox MMORPG that has pushed the boundaries on what it means to be open world and stood the test of time. Dig, mine, shape the world around you and make your lasting mark!

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 49.3%, Building 18.3%, Survival 11%, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A complex sandbox MMO that allows players to terraform the world and build massive structures through collaborative effort.

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 53.2% ★, Survival 21.2%, Building 14.9%, Simulation 5%, Open World 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A complex colony-sim that demands careful resource management and infrastructure building to keep your population alive.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.4% ★, Survival 17.3%, Building 10.8%, Procedural Generation 10.2%, Open World 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides deep emergent storytelling and colony management, where every colonist's life and survival is critical to the group's success.

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Survival 76%, Crafting 11%, Open World 10%, Funny 2%, Indie 1%

Why You'll Like It: Features a distinct hand-drawn art style and cooperative survival mechanics that require constant teamwork to overcome environmental threats.

Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!

Why similar: Crafting 24.3%, Survival 21%, Open World 20.4%, Building 18.1%, Massively Multiplayer 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that emphasizes community-driven building and realistic, primitive crafting.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Survival 38.2%, Open World 23.6%, Crafting 16.6%, Building 13.2%, Simulation 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival game where the fragility of life and the necessity of long-term planning are central to the experience.

Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 34.3%, Crafting 19.7%, Open World 16.1%, Building 14.9%, Survival 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A massively multiplayer universe where players collaborate to build settlements and explore interconnected worlds.

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: Survival 27%, Crafting 24.9%, Building 23%, Open World 22.2%, Indie 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on cooperative survival and building, encouraging players to work together to conquer a harsh, procedurally generated world.

Behold, the miracle of life… packed into cubes! Create fantastic creatures in an open-world sandbox game like no other. Explore, craft, and survive—all with the help of your very own creations.

Why similar: Life Sim 17.3%, Crafting 16.9%, Survival 16.3%, Building 16.1%, Open World 14.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that allows for creative experimentation with creature creation and base-building.

A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Why similar: Open World 31.8%, Survival 26.6%, Building 17.2%, Crafting 16.9%, Simulation 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that allows you to build a faction from nothing in a brutal, unforgiving world.

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: Colony Sim 54.1% ★, Survival 12.9%, Building 12.2%, Open World 7.3%, Simulation 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that requires careful resource management to ensure the survival of your villagers through harsh winters.

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Survival 33.3%, Open World 20.9%, Building 20.4%, Procedural Generation 16.7%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep base-building and survival mechanics that require constant preparation and teamwork to survive periodic threats.

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 43.5% ★, Building 11.8%, Survival 10.5%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Open World 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on the development of a civilization and the unique traits of its individual inhabitants.

Hobo: Tough Life is an urban survival role-playing game where you play as a homeless person. Play alone or team up in online co-op. Explore the streets of Praslav, scavenge for food and supplies, beg, steal, and do whatever else it takes to survive the forthcoming winter.

Why similar: Survival 27.9%, Crafting 23.6%, Open World 22.6%, Conversation 16.8%, Simulation 9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the gritty reality of survival and community-building in an urban environment.

The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Why similar: Survival 34.2%, Crafting 26.9%, Open World 18.7%, Building 16.5%, Simulation 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes multiplayer survival game where community cooperation and base-building are essential for survival against other players.

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 39.5% ★, Survival 17.9%, Crafting 12%, Building 8.3%, Open World 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that blends base-building with survival against supernatural threats.

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Survival 33.8%, Crafting 22.4%, Open World 22.2%, Building 16.6%, Simulation 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines intense survival mechanics with cooperative base-building in a dangerous, atmospheric environment.

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: Crafting 34.8%, Survival 21.4%, Building 18%, Open World 16.9%, Simulation 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the automation and expansion of a base, capturing the satisfaction of building complex systems from simple beginnings.

Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

Why similar: Crafting 27.9%, Survival 27.4%, Building 24%, Open World 20.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a unique perspective on survival and building, requiring players to craft tools and shelters in a dangerous, oversized world.

An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.

Why similar: Survival 25.4%, Open World 19.4%, Crafting 19.3%, Building 18.6%, Massively Multiplayer 17.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a vast open world for survival and building, where players can form clans to establish their own civilization.

Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilizations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn!

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8% ★, Life Sim 23%, Procedural Generation 18.2%, Simulation 10.4%, Funny 8%

An online multiplayer game of crafting, survival, civilization building, and player collaboration. Start in the stone age and live, build, and invent your way to higher civilization. Live and die as well as you can, to gain the experience you need to achieve even more in your next life!

Why similar: Crafting 19%, Cooking 18.1%, Life Sim 15.6%, Survival 14.8%, Building 13.7%

Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.

Why similar: Crafting 29.3%, Survival 26.6%, Open World 23.5%, Building 20.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game set in a harsh desert environment that emphasizes building and resource management to stay alive.

An alien world sometimes needs a farmer’s touch to bring it to life. In this sci-fi, colonization-life sim, terraform a barren world: turn wastelands into verdant landscapes while exploring, farming, building, and unlocking all the mysteries of this strange new planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, Agriculture 19.6% ★, Life Sim 15.9%, Crafting 11%, Building 9.8%

Island Paradise is a survival game where you build, upgrade, customize your own island and use nearby resources to create a home for generations to come!

Why similar: Agriculture 23.2% ★, Crafting 21.5%, Open World 17.2%, Building 17.1%, Massively Multiplayer 16%

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 30.3% ★, Crafting 18.4%, Survival 15.6%, Building 15.4%, Open World 12%

A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1% ★, Crafting 16.5%, Survival 15.4%, Building 14.8%, Open World 9.3%

Wobbly Life is a vibrant open-world physics sandbox. Play with your friends online or in local co-op, with exciting jobs, mini games and wacky story missions. Earn cash to spend in the world on clothes, vehicles and houses. There is a whole Wobbly World out there to explore!

Why similar: Open World 31.6%, Life Sim 20.8%, Funny 18.7%, Simulation 16.4%, Cute 6.2%

A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim. Build colonies in an infinite world, alone or with friends via Steam or self-hosted multiplayer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8% ★, Procedural Generation 15.6%, Crafting 15.5%, Open World 14%, Building 13.9%

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 28.2% ★, Crafting 18.7%, Building 14.7%, Survival 14.1%, Open World 14.1%

You have experienced the sudden loss of your wealth, which has compelled you to abandon your previous life and begin anew. By venturing into the game world, you can construct settlements and forge alliances with other players, ensuring that you will always have exciting challenges to undertake.

Why similar: Crafting 25.4%, Survival 21.3%, Building 19.9%, Open World 17.9%, Simulation 10.9%

CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2% ★, Agriculture 22% ★, Crafting 16.1%, Survival 12.5%, Building 12.4%

Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic (and ridiculous) survival adventure. Will you manage to stay alive as you unravel the mysteries of Wrongworld and search for a way home?

Why similar: Survival 19.8%, Crafting 15.6%, Open World 13.6%, Building 13.5%, Perma Death 10.9%

In Tiny Life, you control a set of people that live together in a household. You take care of their daily needs, build their skills, forge new relationships... or just mess up their entire life in whatever way you can think of!

Why similar: Life Sim 44.1%, Building 27.1%, Simulation 17.6%, Conversation 11.2%

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.4% ★, Building 18.2%, Agriculture 17.3% ★, Survival 15.9%, Simulation 6.7%

Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 29.1%, Crafting 18.9%, Survival 17.9%, Building 15%, Open World 11.8%

Multicellular will take you back in time, to the dawn of life. Build your multicellular organism and combat hunger, the environment, darkness and other organisms. Everything in this new world can kill you, will you be able to survive?

Why similar: Survival 39.6%, Simulation 20.7%, Funny 18.4%, Cute 12.1%, Indie 9.2%

You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?

Why similar: Life Sim 27.2%, Agriculture 26.4% ★, Crafting 14.9%, Building 10.5%, Open World 8.3%

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 43.9% ★, Survival 18.1%, Building 15.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 10.4%

Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.2% ★, Building 18.8%, Survival 16.3%, Open World 13.6%, Simulation 10.1%

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: Colony Sim 58.7% ★, Survival 21.8%, Simulation 7.6%, Open World 6.7%, Choices Matter 3.9%

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41% ★, Building 20.1%, Survival 18.8%, Simulation 9.5%, Procedural Generation 3.6%

Become the most successful youtuber on the planet! Create videos, get subscribers, attend events, interact with your fans… and grow your channel. Live a youtuber’s life!

Why similar: Life Sim 49.4%, Funny 20.5%, Simulation 17.4%, Indie 7.3%, Open World 5.4%

Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3% ★, Building 15.1%, Crafting 14.4%, Survival 13.2%, Life Sim 13.1%

A new life awaits in Honeywood! Build a thriving community that will last generations in this cozy farm simulator. Farm, socialize, make friends, cook, craft, forage and uncover the secrets of the island! If someone doesn’t want to be friends? There are always other means.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4% ★, Life Sim 16.2%, Cooking 14.9%, Crafting 13.6%, Open World 11%

Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.1% ★, Life Sim 25.7%, Building 20.6%, Simulation 7.8%, Indie 2.8%

Nova-Life: Amboise is a multiplayer role-play simulation video game. Create your character and start your second life!

Why similar: Simulation 58.7%, Indie 23.1%, Open World 18.3%