- #1 Solarpunk™
97% matchVery Positive82% of 3,137 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 16.3% ★, Farming 16.2% ★, Cozy 11.1%, Base Building 9.2%, Online Co-Op 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the exact aesthetic and focus on sustainable, solar-powered technology within a cozy, open-world setting.
- #2 Aloft
96% matchVery Positive84% of 3,637 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 26.4% ★, Open World Survival Craft 17.6% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game features floating island base-building that captures the same sense of freedom and exploration found in Outbound.
- #3 Lightyear Frontier
96% matchVery Positive84% of 4,562 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 24.9% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: This peaceful, mech-based farming and exploration game focuses on cozy base-building and environmental restoration.
- #4 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
95% matchVery Positive85% of 4,592 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Cozy 18.2%, Open World Survival Craft 17.6% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a relaxing take on the survival genre, focusing on building a cozy home in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #5 Raft
94% matchVery Positive93% of 374,777 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 39% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive experience for mobile base-building, requiring players to expand and manage a vessel while exploring an ocean world.
- #6 The Planet Crafter
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 71,525 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 38.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes long-term base-building and terraforming, rewarding players for turning a barren landscape into a thriving ecosystem.
- #7 Voidtrain
93% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,612 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 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 32.1% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Players build and upgrade a train that serves as their mobile base, providing a similar nomadic survival experience.
- #8 Forever Skies
92% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,551 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 31.8 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 28.6% ★, Base Building 17.8%, Crafting 13.8%, Open World 11.6%, Building 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Players build and customize a high-tech airship to survive and explore a ruined world, mirroring the vehicle-based progression of the seed game.
- #9 ASTRONEER
91% matchVery Positive92% of 138,510 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 32.7% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Open World 12.7%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: The focus on modular base-building and resource management in a colorful, low-stress environment aligns perfectly with the cozy exploration vibe.
- #10 Cozy Caravan
90% matchVery Positive93% of 1,316 reviews2026
Dev: 5 Lives Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 40.6%, Crafting 19.9%, Open World 16.4%, Exploration 10%, Colorful 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes exploration and crafting while traveling through a vibrant world, matching the nomadic spirit of Outbound.
- #11 Luma Island
89% matchVery Positive84% of 12,478 reviews2024
Dev: Feel Free Games
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 23.9%, Online Co-Op 14.3%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 12.7%, Character Customization 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers a relaxing, co-op-friendly experience focused on farming, crafting, and building in a vibrant world.
- #12 Among Trees
91% matchMixed68% of 2,229 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 21.5% ★, Farming 20.6% ★, Base Building 7.9%, Crafting 7.7%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly atmospheric and relaxing survival experience centered on building a home in the heart of a lush forest.
- #13 Winter Burrow
89% matchVery Positive90% of 3,059 reviews2025
Dev: Pine Creek GamesPub: Noodlecake
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 26.7%, Crafting 14.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Nature 13.5%, Building 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy survival game that focuses on crafting and exploration in a charming, nature-filled environment.
- #14 Dinkum
88% matchVery Positive92% of 28,918 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 28.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 29.7% ★, Farming 24.8% ★, Crafting 8.9%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world exploration with building and farming mechanics in a relaxing, Australian-inspired setting.
- #15 Eden Crafters
86% matchVery Positive86% of 2,537 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 13.6 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 28.1% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 12.3%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Building 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on automation and base-building, providing a satisfying loop of crafting and resource management.
- #16 Above Snakes
87% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,985 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 20.2% ★, Cozy 14.5%, Base Building 10.4%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: The game allows for creative, modular building within a beautiful, atmospheric open world that encourages exploration.
- #17 Fruitbus
86% matchVery Positive87% of 1,126 reviews2024
Dev: Krillbite Studio
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 32.6%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Open World 10%, Relaxing 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy simulation game where you drive a vehicle and cook for others, capturing the mobile-home feel of the seed game.
- #18 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
85% matchVery Positive82% of 10,269 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 10.2%, Building 10%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique perspective on survival and base-building, emphasizing exploration and crafting in a miniature world.
- #19 Lost Skies
84% matchMixed61% of 2,941 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 31.3% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Online Co-Op 14%, Sandbox 8.9%, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: This co-op adventure features extensive airship building and exploration, perfect for fans of mobile base-building.
- #20 House Flipper 2
83% matchVery Positive87% of 19,303 reviews2023
Dev: Frozen District
Windows
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 32.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 31.2% ★, Organizing 25.1% ★, Base Building 9%, Online Co-Op 7.7%, Building 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on interior design, it offers the same satisfying, relaxing loop of building and decorating found in Outbound.
- #21 Fae Farm
84% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,513 reviews2023
Dev: Phoenix LabsPub: Gambit Digital
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 47.8%, Relaxing 15%, Crafting 11.9%, Nature 9.7%, Colorful 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a polished, cozy farming and building experience with strong co-op elements and magical exploration.
- #22 Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 471 reviews2023
Dev: Snowcastle Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 26.6%, Building 17%, Crafting 14.5%, Relaxing 14.1%, Exploration 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: It features a relaxing, top-down exploration experience with a focus on gathering and building in a charming world.
- #23 My Time at Sandrock
80% matchVery Positive88% of 28,759 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 24.4%, Crafting 22%, Sandbox 18.3%, Open World 16%, Character Customization 14.9%
Why You'll Like It: A deep crafting and building simulator that emphasizes community and cozy, long-term development.
- #24 Everdream Valley
81% matchMostly Positive70% of 962 reviews2023
Dev: MooneatersPub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 24.9%, Nature 13.7%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 13%, Sandbox 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy farming and adventure game that emphasizes nature and animal interaction in a peaceful setting.
- #25 Arctico
81% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,498 reviews2022
Dev: Claudio Norori
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.4% ★, Open World 11.3%, Nature 10%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A peaceful survival game where you explore a snowy landscape using a dog sled as your primary mode of transport.
- #26 Lodventure
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 162 reviews2023
Dev: Sky Games
Windows
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% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 9.8%, Online Co-Op 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op survival game that emphasizes exploration and building in a stylized, open-world environment.
- #27 Terra Nil
78% matchVery Positive88% of 8,613 reviews2023
Dev: Free LivesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.
Why similar: Nature 51.4%, Relaxing 26.4%, Atmospheric 12.8%, Colorful 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses entirely on environmental restoration, matching the sustainable and nature-focused themes of Outbound.
- #28 ContractVille
76% matchVery Positive81% of 6,061 reviews2025
Dev: MYM Games StudiosPub: FiftyEight Studios
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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%
- #29 Farmcoz
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 82 reviews2024
Dev: Wigtor
Windows · Linux
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 14.3%, Base Building 13%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing sandbox game that focuses on building and nature, perfect for players looking for a low-stress experience.
- #30 Solace Crafting
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 894 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 12.5%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Building 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a massive open world with deep crafting and building systems, allowing for significant creative freedom.
- #31 Cowboy Life Simulator
75% matchVery Positive90% of 1,207 reviews2025
Dev: Odd QubitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
“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 19.8%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #32 Occupy Mars: The Game
76% matchMixed70% of 3,099 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.2 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 17.2%, Crafting 14.1%, Online Co-Op 13%, Building 12.7%, Open World 12%
- #33 Tiny House Simulator
77% matchMixed65% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: FarFromSky
Windows · Mac
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 13.6%, Nature 12.4%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #34 Campsite Hustle! - Management Simulator
75% matchVery Positive81% of 233 reviews2026
Dev: Red Shore Games
Windows
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 14.6%, Nature 14.3%, Driving 13.3%, Base Building 11.7%
- #35 Squirreled Away
74% matchVery Positive94% of 1,043 reviews2025
Dev: Far SeasPub: Amplifier Studios
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 21.8%, Open World 15%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 13.3%, Nature 13.2%
- #36 Lumberjack's Dynasty
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,800 reviews2021
Dev: UMEO StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 19.7%, Building 16.4%, Crafting 14.7%, Driving 14.2%, Open World 11.8%
- #37 Everwind
73% matchVery Positive81% of 3,601 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 19.6%, Building 19.4%, Open World 16.9%, Sandbox 16%
- #38 Out and About
73% matchVery Positive92% of 388 reviews2025
Dev: Yaldi Games
Windows
A cozy foraging adventure about the magic of real-life plants! Identify and gather wild plants and fungi, cook tasty recipes, master herbal remedies, and rebuild your community after a devastating storm.
Why similar: Nature 17.6%, Crafting 16%, Cozy 15.6%, Character Customization 12.6%, Open World 11.7%
- #39 Wildmender
73% matchVery Positive84% of 2,192 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 24.6% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Nature 11.9%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Crafting 11%
- #40 Locomoto
72% matchVery Positive91% of 641 reviews2025
Dev: Green Tile Digital
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 31.8%, Crafting 16.8%, Base Building 15.4%, Character Customization 14.6%, Relaxing 9.4%
- #41 Farm Together
74% matchVery Positive94% of 22,074 reviews2018
Dev: Milkstone Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.0 hrsMean: 140.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in this unique, relaxing farming experience!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 26%, Building 22.3%, Relaxing 15.5%, Sandbox 14.5%, Character Customization 12.1%
- #42 RoadCraft
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 15,934 reviews2025
Dev: Saber InteractivePub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 34.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 26.4%, Building 18.4%, Online Co-Op 17.5%, Nature 14.5%, Base Building 10%
- #43 Palia
70% matchVery Positive86% of 42,971 reviews2024
Dev: Singularity 6 Corporation
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 27.8%, Building 13.7%, Crafting 13.4%, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Nature 10.7%
- #44 Roots of Pacha
71% matchVery Positive94% of 4,483 reviews2023
Dev: Soda Den
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 21.7%, Online Co-Op 17.4%, Crafting 15.3%, Building 13.6%, Sandbox 11.2%
- #45 Critter Cove
70% matchVery Positive95% of 1,899 reviews2024
Dev: Gentleman Rat Studios
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 16.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Sandbox 19.4%, Character Customization 19.2%, Open World 19.2%, Relaxing 14.1%, Exploration 10.9%
- #46 Caravanners
72% matchMixed41% of 798 reviews2025
Dev: Akif AkdemirPub: PLEXUS GAME
Windows
Design your dream caravan in detail, roam freely with your mobile home, set up your camp with friends, and enjoy music by the campfire in a vast open world!
Why similar: Driving 17.3%, Online Co-Op 16.5%, Open World 13.3%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #47 Cubic Odyssey
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,674 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 33.2% ★, Base Building 18.8%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 11.9%, Online Co-Op 6.2%
- #48 Camper Van: Make it Home
69% matchVery Positive92% of 1,285 reviews2025
Dev: Malapata Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 38.5%, Building 19.9%, Relaxing 17.6%, Nature 16.4%, Colorful 7.6%
- #49 No Place Like Home
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 4,089 reviews2022
Dev: Chicken LauncherPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Humanity Trashed the Earth and left for Mars. Only few remained. EXPLORE the world. Clean the environment, CRAFT with recycled resources. Domesticate animals. Rebuild your village. Restore environment and run your own post-apo FARM as there is No Place Like Home!
Why similar: Base Building 21.8%, Crafting 18.2%, Nature 15.3%, Building 14.3%, Open World 9%
- #50 Snacko
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,027 reviews2025
Dev: Bluecurse StudiosPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 25.8%, Building 19.9%, Crafting 15%, Sandbox 11.1%, Relaxing 8.5%
- #51 Camping Simulator: The Squad
69% matchMixed58% of 1,084 reviews2025
Dev: CubeCube Sports Ltd.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 49%
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 16.8%, Nature 14.9%, Sandbox 14.4%, Building 14.1%, Base Building 8.7%
- #52 Tribe: Primitive Builder
68% matchVery Positive81% of 788 reviews2023
Dev: Space Boat StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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: Nature 20.2%, Base Building 20.2%, Crafting 16.2%, Building 16%, Exploration 7.6%
- #53 Gaucho and the Grassland
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 524 reviews2025
Dev: Epopeia Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
LIVE like a LATIN COWBOY as you EXPLORE, HELP others, and bring HARMONY between HUMANS and MYSTICAL BEINGS in a RELAXING COZY ADVENTURE.
Why similar: Decorating 24.6% ★, Cozy 21.4%, Building 10.4%, Crafting 9.3%, Nature 7.7%
- #54 Tales of Morrow
69% matchMixed46% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: GameMechanic
Windows
Create your tale! Build your home, fight, farm, and explore an old civilization while developing your skills and abilities in this relaxing and adventurous experience. You decide your fate!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 12%, Building 11.6%, Nature 8.3%
- #55 Wild Indigo Ranch
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 464 reviews2024
Dev: Funday Games
Windows
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 21.1%, Building 13.5%, Crafting 13.3%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #56 Elsewhere
65% matchVery Positive96% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.
Why similar: Farming 25.1% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #57 Disney Dreamlight Valley
65% matchVery Positive92% of 24,272 reviews2023
Dev: Gameloft
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 116.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Explore a world filled with the magic of Disney as you discover rich stories and build the perfect neighborhood alongside Disney and Pixar heroes and villains in this new life-sim adventure game. Welcome to Disney Dreamlight Valley.
Why similar: Character Customization 22.4%, Crafting 19.8%, Sandbox 19.2%, Relaxing 17.9%, Exploration 12.1%
- #58 Cozy Island
64% matchVery Positive92% of 2,563 reviews2025
Dev: LazyFish Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Go wild with your BFFS in your ultimate cozy getaway! Yank up hilariously plump veggies, reel in giant flappy fish, bump into adorable little animals, and unlock a bunch of weird and wonderful toys! If you feel like it, doing absolutely nothing on the beach is exactly what you're supposed to do!
Why similar: Cozy 24.8%, Base Building 21.6%, Online Co-Op 17.1%, Open World 17.1%, Relaxing 12.9%
- #59 Collector's Cove
64% matchVery Positive90% of 155 reviews2026
Dev: VoodooDuck
Windows
All aboard! Collector’s Cove is a cozy farming adventure on the high seas. Sail with your animal friend to uncharted waters, cultivate your floating farm, and discover new islands, crops and fish on your quest to become a Named Collector!
Why similar: Farming 26.5% ★, Nature 14.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Cozy 11.7%, Character Customization 8.3%