Games Like Outbound

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 16.6% ★, Farming 16.3% ★, Cozy 10.5%, Base Building 9.4%, Online Co-Op 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It features a similar focus on sustainable energy and cozy, open-world survival crafting with a strong emphasis on co-op gameplay.

In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a peaceful, mech-based farming and base-building experience that perfectly mirrors the relaxing nature of Outbound.

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 26.6% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a satisfying progression of terraforming and base-building that captures the same sense of environmental transformation found in Outbound.

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: Farming 26.5% ★, Open World Survival Craft 17.6% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Building 10.5%, Open World 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: The concept of building a base on floating islands that you can navigate through the sky provides a unique take on mobile living.

Grab your backpack and climb on in, it’s time to hit the road! Head out on a gentle journey in your reliable old caravan, crafting hearty meals, running market stalls and sharing goodies with local townsfolk. Spread kindness, share, and help prepare for the annual Whizz Bang Fair!

Why similar: Cozy 38.7%, Crafting 20.4%, Open World 17.1%, Exploration 10.4%, Colorful 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the joy of traveling through a beautiful world while managing your own mobile shop and crafting goods.

A journey of flavors and friendships awaits you in your cozy, customisable food truck! Forage for fresh ingredients to create your own menu, then feed tummies and souls with home-cooked meals. Change the world, one apple at a time.

Why similar: Cozy 30.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 10.4%, Open World 10.4%, Relaxing 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the cozy, nomadic spirit of Outbound by tasking you with driving a customizable food truck to explore and serve the local world.

I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.9% ★, Cozy 17%, Crafting 11%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on turning a lonely, ruined environment into a cozy, automated home, matching the relaxing survival vibe of Outbound.

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 39.1% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: The core mechanic of building and expanding a mobile home on the water is the closest thematic match to Outbound's vehicle-based base building.

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 28.7% ★, Base Building 17.8%, Crafting 13.7%, Open World 11.7%, Building 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: You manage a high-tech airship that serves as your mobile base, blending exploration and survival in a way that feels very similar to Outbound.

Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Farming 24.8% ★, Crafting 8.8%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines exploration and base-building with a relaxing, Australian-inspired aesthetic that feels very approachable.

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 32.3% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on building and upgrading a train as you travel through a strange world provides a compelling mobile base-building experience.

Get ready to explore, farm, fish, mine, craft, and raise magical Lumas as you solve puzzles and embark on quests across Luma Island. Play solo, or team up with friends in 1-4 player online co-op. Choose relaxing Cozy, challenging Adventure, or epic Hero mode to match your mood and playstyle.

Why similar: Cozy 22.6%, Online Co-Op 14.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Building 12.9%, Character Customization 9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a charming, cooperative open-world experience focused on exploration, farming, and building your own cozy homestead.

The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.

Why similar: Cozy 20.4%, Online Co-Op 17.7%, Crafting 15.5%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at the cozy, cooperative farming and development loop, making it a great choice for players who enjoy sustainable living themes.

Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!

Why similar: Building 24.5%, Crafting 21.9%, Sandbox 18.2%, Open World 16.3%, Character Customization 14.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, cozy crafting and building experience set in a vibrant world that rewards creativity and community interaction.

Piece by piece, create your own world in this relaxing Wild West-inspired worldbuilder. Craft, farm, hunt, build your base, and explore.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.5% ★, Cozy 13.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: The tile-based world building and survival mechanics allow for a highly personalized and creative approach to creating your own home.

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: Open World Survival Craft 24.6% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes exploration and building within a nature-focused environment, offering a unique perspective on survival crafting.

Discover a welcoming world in Palia, a free-to-play fantasy life sim adventure where you can craft, explore, and create the life and home of your dreams. With nearly endless ways to make Palia your home, you’ll find relaxation and joy in every corner of this vibrant, heartwarming world.

Why similar: Cozy 26.2%, Building 14.1%, Crafting 13.5%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Nature 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, multiplayer life-sim that prioritizes building, decorating, and community, perfect for those who enjoy the social aspects of Outbound.

Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.6% ★, Farming 20.6% ★, Base Building 7.9%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on the beauty of nature and the satisfaction of building a small, cozy cabin in the wilderness.

Clean your worries away with this relaxing renovation simulator! Buy, fix, sell, and become a local legend. Or grab your power tools and build anything from scratch! With the online 2-4 players co-op mode, you can play both in sandbox and story mode together.

Why similar: Decorating 30.7% ★, Organizing 22.9% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: For players who love the decorating and building aspects of Outbound, this game provides the ultimate creative outlet for home design.

Escape to the magical life of your dreams in Fae Farm, a farm sim RPG for 1-4 players. Craft, cultivate, and decorate to grow your homestead, and use spells to explore the enchanted island of Azoria!

Why similar: Cozy 45.8%, Relaxing 15.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Nature 10%, Colorful 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a magical, cozy farming and crafting experience that is highly focused on relaxation and creative home design.

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 28.3% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 12.1%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes automation and base-building in an open world, appealing to those who enjoy the technical side of Outbound's crafting.

An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Why similar: Cozy 15.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 10.5%, Nature 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game distills the crafting and base-building loop into a highly satisfying, relaxing experience focused on progression.

A farming adventure with a dash of magic. Play solo or up to a 4-player coop. By day, restore your quaint farm into a summer paradise. Explore, raise crops, care for animals and rebuild your home. At night inhabit various creatures through your dreams and bring enchantment to the valley.

Why similar: Cozy 23.7%, Nature 14%, Crafting 13.6%, Building 13.2%, Sandbox 11%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures a very similar cozy, nature-filled atmosphere with a strong focus on farming and animal care.

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: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a more technical, survival-focused take on base-building and resource management in an alien environment.

Plan, design, build, and decorate your dream house in an open-world. Smash walls, sketch your layout, then build and decorate every inch—inside and garden. In an open world, tackle each renovation solo or with up to 4 friends. Pick up that hammer and start creating - Your dream house is waiting!

Why similar: Driving 18.3%, Online Co-Op 14.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Building 13.8%, Open World 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the building and management side of things, offering a satisfying progression for those who enjoy construction.

Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.

Why similar: Base Building 19.1%, Crafting 17.8%, Open World 15.6%, Building 15.3%, Sandbox 14.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a sandbox survival experience with a focus on building and crafting in a beautiful, nature-inspired setting.

Build your own Outdoor Store and Camping Business in the heart of Red Shore Valley! Arrange your shelves, manage your stock, construct facilities on your campsite, and take care of every guest. Grow from humble beginnings into a thriving business surrounded by nature!

Why similar: Building 15.1%, Crafting 14.5%, Nature 14.3%, Driving 13.3%, Base Building 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the cozy, management-focused side of building and maintaining a space for others in a relaxing environment.

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 27.1% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 12.4%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on exploration and building in a vast, open world makes it a solid choice for players who enjoy the freedom of Outbound.

Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Cozy 18.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.2%

Design and build custom tiny homes for various clients in this relaxing open-world building game. Create unique spaces suited to each client’s requirements, and dive into different layouts with the sandbox mode for total creative freedom.

Why similar: Driving 17.7%, Crafting 13.5%, Nature 12.4%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on building and decorating small, efficient living spaces aligns perfectly with the cozy, off-grid philosophy of Outbound.

Winter Burrow is a cozy woodland survival game about a mouse returning home to restore their childhood burrow. Explore, gather resources, craft, knit warm sweaters, bake pies and meet the locals.

Why similar: Cozy 25.4%, Crafting 14.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Nature 13.7%, Building 11.9%

“Cowboy Life Simulator” is an immersive and relaxing ranching sim where you step into the boots of a failed businessman starting fresh on the frontier. Buy your first goat, meet the locals, explore vibrant lands, and build your dream ranch in a world full of stories and adventure!

Why similar: Cozy 18.5%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 10.1%

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 24.7% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 11.2%, Nature 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a colorful, exploration-heavy sandbox where you can build and craft in a variety of unique environments.

Live your best squirrel life. Explore, gather, craft, and build incredible treehouses in acres of beautiful parkland. Scurry across lawns, up trees, and leap limb to limb solo, or up to four friends can play together in co-op. Endless summer days of adventure await.

Why similar: Base Building 21.9%, Open World 15.2%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 13.3%, Nature 13.1%

Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Online Co-Op 9.1%

Cozy Sandbox Game about Farming and Building. Is it raining outside? Just chill and relax with warm and cheerful atmosphere of Farmcoz. Farm, Build, Explore, Explode and Unlock all items. Good luck!

Why similar: Nature 17.4%, Building 15.8%, Crafting 15.3%, Sandbox 14.2%, Base Building 13.1%

Explore, survive, and push the boundaries of the horizon in a vast, procedurally generated world. Customize your vehicle, face unpredictable events, gather resources, and embark on a unique adventure, alone or with up to 4 players.

Why similar: Driving 34%, Online Co-Op 21.8%, Open World 17.9%, Exploration 10.5%, First-Person 8.5%

As the leader of a company specialized in restoring sites devastated by natural disasters, use your construction machinery to restart the local industry. Clear debris and faulty equipment, rebuild roads and bridges damaged by weather, and much more!

Why similar: Driving 26.6%, Building 18.4%, Online Co-Op 17.4%, Nature 14.5%, Base Building 10%

Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored. It's got sci-fi sim elements, deep dungeons, and you can even morph into alien form! Grab up to 7 friends to mine, craft, battle, and level—or farm and fish the day away, if that's more your tempo. There's so much to do!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.6%

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 32.8% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Open World 12.9%, Sandbox 9.2%, Building 9.1%

Decorate and organize the camper van of your dreams! Embark on a journey of self-discovery as you build your own home-on-wheels, using a combination of creative block organization puzzles and relaxing interior design. Make your heart feel at ease and your camper van feel like home.

Why similar: Cozy 36.8%, Building 20.5%, Relaxing 18.1%, Nature 16.8%, Colorful 7.8%

A unique life simulation where you are a lumberjack building up a business and founding a lasting dynasty for generations to come.

Why similar: Simulation 19.5%, Building 16.7%, Crafting 14.5%, Driving 14.3%, Open World 12%

Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Online Co-Op 14%, Sandbox 8.8%, Crafting 7.4%

Ikonei Island is yours to discover! Explore and gather resources. Farm the land, craft tools and gear, and build your base or a cozy home. Befriend magical creatures and fight monsters with your friends or solo!

Why similar: Cozy 25.2%, Building 17.3%, Crafting 14.7%, Relaxing 14.4%, Exploration 11.5%

Customise and manage your train, tend to quirky passengers, gather resources, craft decorations, and upgrade your conductors style all accompanied by soft lo-fi tunes. Become a conductor and save your hometown Barrenpyre from environmental disaster!

Why similar: Cozy 30.2%, Crafting 17.1%, Base Building 15.9%, Character Customization 14.8%, Relaxing 9.7%

Camping Simulator lets you experience what camp means by preparing your backpack wisely for challenging conditions of nature. You can play all the experiences with up to 8 friends in multiplayer mode or single player mode.

Why similar: Crafting 16.7%, Nature 14.9%, Sandbox 14.4%, Building 14.1%, Base Building 8.8%

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 33.3% ★, Base Building 18.8%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 11.8%, Online Co-Op 6.2%

A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Nature 11.9%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Crafting 10.9%

A cozy foraging adventure for anyone who loves the outdoors or wishes they knew it better. Every plant is real: learn to identify 100+ wild plants and fungi and cook 200+ real recipes, while helping a storm-struck town find its feet again.

Why similar: Cozy 19.2%, Nature 16.5%, Crafting 15.1%, Character Customization 12%, Open World 11.3%

Wild Indigo Ranch is a cozy cowboy-life RPG for 1-4 players. Start a new life on the prairie, explore the frontier, build the finest ranch in the West, and ride into the sunset.

Why similar: Cozy 19.8%, Building 13.7%, Crafting 13.4%, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Sandbox 11%

A deep, open world life sim and town building game set in a cozy post-apocalyptic paradise. Restore your town, sail across a mysterious archipelago, rescue animal pals. Hunt for relics and farm, fish & craft everything you need. Can you help turn Critter Cove into a thriving tourist town once again?

Why similar: Open World 19.4%, Sandbox 19.3%, Character Customization 19%, Relaxing 14.1%, Exploration 11.1%

Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.6%, Crafting 19.5%, Building 19.4%, Open World 17.1%, Sandbox 15.9%

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: Farming 40.6% ★, Online Co-Op 16.1%, Open World 12.4%, Sandbox 11.6%, Relaxing 7.8%

Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in this unique, relaxing farming experience!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 26.1%, Building 22.3%, Relaxing 15.5%, Sandbox 14.5%, Character Customization 12%

Driven away by the cost of living, you and your childhood friend set off with the goal to turn things around and start a new life. Explore, gather, and build up the town from scratch into a place you'll be proud to call "home"!

Why similar: Cozy 24.4%, Building 20.2%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 11.3%, Relaxing 8.7%

Grab your axe, hop on the handcar, and lose yourself in the forest. Chop trees, upgrade your gear, and enjoy the ride - alone or with a friend

Why similar: Cozy 25.3%, Nature 15.8%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Relaxing 9.7%

Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.

Why similar: Base Building 20.3%, Nature 20.2%, Crafting 16.1%, Building 16%, Exploration 7.7%

Coral Island is a vibrant, laid-back farm sim reimagined with multiplayer! Experience enchanting island life at your own pace: farm with friends, nurture animals, build relationships, hang out with a diverse cast of characters, and dive into the magical Merfolk Kingdom.

Why similar: Crafting 18%, Building 16.3%, Character Customization 15.4%, Relaxing 15.1%, Open World 14%

Cultivate crops, care for animals, fish, mine resources, and explore diverse environments while growing the local community. Invite village residents to work with you and collaborate to meet city targets, helping you achieve goals more efficiently.

Why similar: Farming 32.2% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Cozy 11.3%, Open World 9.2%, Nature 8.1%