- #1 Star Crafter
97% matchMostly Positive70% of 110 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Voxel 18.3% ★, Open World Survival Craft 18% ★, Mining 13.9% ★, Automation 9.5%, Base Building 8%
- #2 Astro Colony
96% matchVery Positive81% of 2,730 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Base Building 15.6%, Space Sim 14.6%, Space 12.4%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #3 Space Trash Scavenger
96% matchVery Positive83% of 528 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Automation 16.6%, Space Sim 11.6%, Space 10.3%, Crafting 9.9%
- #4 FortressCraft Evolved!
95% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,066 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Voxel 18.8% ★, Automation 16.5%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 7.4%
- #5 Cubic Odyssey
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,754 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 43.2% ★, Base Building 19.1%, RPG 11.9%, Space 5.2%, Open World 5%
- #6 StarMade
94% matchMixed68% of 2,992 reviews2014
Dev: Schine GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
Why similar: Voxel 36.7% ★, Space 20.5%, Open World 11.3%, Space Sim 10.6%, Crafting 7.1%
- #7 Orebound
93% matchMostly Positive78% of 993 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Voxel 22.8% ★, Resource Management 15.9%, Automation 11.9%, Mining 11.3% ★, Crafting 8.4%
- #8 Astrometica
92% matchVery Positive82% of 3,211 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.6%, Open World Survival Craft 12.9% ★, Automation 12.7%, Crafting 9.1%, Space 8.9%
- #9 Omega Crafter
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 579 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Programming 21.2% ★, Automation 17.3%, Crafting 10%, Open World 8%
- #10 Evospace
91% matchVery Positive83% of 392 reviews2019
Dev: Quantum Rivet
Windows · Mac
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
Why similar: Voxel 29% ★, Automation 17.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 14%, Open World 9.8%
- #11 Elsewhere
89% matchVery Positive97% of 87 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: Mining 21.6% ★, Automation 19.2%, Crafting 12.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #12 Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
90% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,173 reviews2020
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.
Why similar: Programming 21.8% ★, Space Sim 20.2%, Automation 11.9%, Space 9.8%, Crafting 8.8%
- #13 Nova Lands
89% matchVery Positive89% of 3,544 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Automation 21.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 10%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #14 Prospector
88% matchMixed70% of 152 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.6% ★, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #15 Sandustry
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Automation 17.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 8.5%
- #16 Creativerse
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Voxel 35.4% ★, Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 7.7%, RPG 6.6%
- #17 Craterbound
87% matchMixed53% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Marquez
Windows
Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Space Sim 14.6%, Voxel 11.6% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Space 10.3%
- #18 ASTRONEER
84% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 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 35% ★, Space 14.6%, Base Building 12.4%, Open World 11.5%, Automation 9.3%
- #19 Interstellar Rift
86% matchMixed68% of 1,667 reviews2020
Dev: Split PolygonPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 35.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
Why similar: Space Sim 26.3%, Mining 22.3% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Space 11%, Open World 10.3%
- #20 TerraTech Worlds
84% matchMixed63% of 2,297 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Mining 17.7% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Automation 11.4%, Crafting 10.4%
- #21 Penkura
83% matchVery Positive90% of 202 reviews2018
Dev: LionsArt
Windows
Penkura is a sci-fi base-building survival game where you construct a colony from a top-down command system, explore an alien world in first person, and use programmable bots to gather resources, build, repair, and keep your base alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.8% ★, Programming 19.4% ★, Automation 13.6%, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 8%
- #22 Boundless
82% matchMixed69% of 2,779 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.8 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Why similar: Voxel 33.5% ★, Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 9.3%, RPG 5.1%
- #23 Starbase
82% matchMixed55% of 6,768 reviews2021
Dev: Frozenbyte
Windows
Median: 14.2 hrsMean: 91.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
Why similar: Voxel 22.9% ★, Space Sim 20%, Programming 13.6% ★, Open World Survival Craft 11.5% ★, Space 9.1%
- #24 FOUNDRY
79% matchVery Positive81% of 3,960 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Voxel 35% ★, Automation 16.8%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10.2%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #25 Starship EVO
81% matchVery Positive83% of 1,546 reviews2020
Dev: Moonfire Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
Why similar: Voxel 34% ★, Space 21.4%, Space Sim 20.4%, Open World 8.3%, Action 7.9%
- #26 Skyformer
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 96 reviews2026
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Automation 18.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 7.7%
- #27 Minicology
80% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Isaac DennerPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You have crash-landed into a mini-verse of tiny planets. Welcome to Minicology! Embark on an interstellar survival sandbox journey. Use your crafting, combat, and automation skills to survive the many challenges this mini-verse throws at you.
Why similar: Space Sim 25%, Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Automation 14.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 8.9%
- #28 AutoForge
78% matchVery Positive87% of 467 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Why similar: Automation 23%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 14%, Logic 12.8%, Resource Management 12.6%
- #29 Outworld Station
77% matchVery Positive85% of 859 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Base Building 19.4%, Space 17.9%, Crafting 13.4%, Management 11.3%
- #30 Out of Orbit
78% matchVery Positive79% of 179 reviews2023
Dev: Case Yellow Labs
Windows
Design, build, or pirate spaceships. Build bases on planets. Explore endless randomly generated universes, travel through black holes, command your crew, survive cosmic events, collect and trade materials, battle epic bosses, and much more. The sky is the limit, literally!
Why similar: Space 28%, Base Building 20.3%, Open World 15.2%, Exploration 9%, RPG 8.6%
- #31 SpaceCraft
76% matchMixed64% of 2,773 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 54.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
Why similar: Space Sim 20.5%, Automation 15%, Space 12.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10%
- #32 XenoHaven
76% matchVery Positive82% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Open World 11.3%, Automation 10.7%, Crafting 10.4%
- #33 The Planet Crafter
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Automation 13.3%, Base Building 13%, Space 9.8%, Crafting 9.4%
- #34 Satisfactory
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Base Building 18.9%, Open World Survival Craft 14.8% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 10.5%
- #35 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
74% matchVery Positive83% of 2,294 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Base Building 16%, Logic 13.4%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 12.1%
- #36 Atomcraft
73% matchVery Positive95% of 434 reviews2026
Dev: Triplejump
Windows
A sandbox adventure where every pixel is physically and chemically simulated! Build intricate, fully functional machines from the pixels around you. Harvest, react, and manipulate all 118 elements to craft everything from simple tools to complex systems.
Why similar: Crafting 38.3%, RPG 19.8%, Open World 16.2%, Logic 14.1%, Action 6%
- #37 Rebots
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: FlatPonies
Windows
Rebots is a first-person automation game with an expansive universe to explore. Using intelligent(ish) rebots, you can gather resources, terraform planets, and scan all of the things. Traverse the galaxy in the name of space capitalism!
Why similar: Space Sim 21.8%, Automation 18.7%, Space 12.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.7%
- #38 FluxWerks
72% matchVery Positive91% of 69 reviews2026
Dev: Metallibitti Oy
Windows
Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.
Why similar: Voxel 31.6% ★, Automation 22.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 6%
- #39 Outpath
71% matchVery Positive93% of 3,137 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 22.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 13.6%, Resource Management 11.9%, Open World 10.5%
- #40 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,438 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 77.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Voxel 29.1% ★, Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Space Sim 16.8%, Space 9.9%, Crafting 7.7%
- #41 Crafting Block World
75% matchMixed47% of 55 reviews2019
Dev: IO Games
Windows
Crafting Block World is an adventure with sandbox elements that will help you build your ideal world!
Why similar: Voxel 48.2% ★, Mining 16.7% ★, Base Building 8.3%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 6.6%
- #42 Icaria
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 82 reviews2026
Dev: Blindsight Games LLC
Windows
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
Why similar: Voxel 27% ★, Programming 22.3% ★, Automation 14.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 8.2%
- #43 Necesse
68% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 44.4% ★, Automation 10.9%, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.4%, Base Building 9.1%
- #44 Belts of Iron
70% matchVery Positive87% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
Why similar: Automation 26.5%, Base Building 18.3%, Crafting 15.2%, Open World 12.8%, Resource Management 12.4%
- #45 Eden Crafters
67% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 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 29.4% ★, Automation 19.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Space 8.2%
- #46 Breathedge
69% matchVery Positive81% of 18,514 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Space 15.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 9.1%, First-Person 7%
- #47 Astral Terra
73% matchMixed50% of 152 reviews2015
Dev: Tethys Interactive LLC
Windows
Explore, Adventure, Craft, Build, Survive. How will you shape your world? Astral Terra is a Smooth Voxel, Procedurally Generated Open World game with RPG and Survival Elements!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Voxel 28.6% ★, Mining 9.9% ★, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 7.3%
- #48 Mechanica
71% matchMixed63% of 640 reviews2020
Dev: Deimos Interactive
Windows
Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming. Create your own bases, defenses, manufacturing systems and more. Explore the map and expand the scope and complexity of your creations.
Why similar: Programming 35.4% ★, Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Automation 12.4%, Logic 9.2%
- #49 SpaceKraft!
68% matchVery Positive91% of 97 reviews2024
Dev: Game Dev Garage
Windows
Gather crystals, repair/run crafting facilities, upgrade your spaceship, build machines, explore the open world, find your way back to mother earth.
Why similar: Space Sim 39.6%, Mining 39.1% ★, Open World 13.7%, Adventure 4.4%, Singleplayer 3.2%
- #50 GRAV
71% matchMixed47% of 6,922 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Space 9.3%
- #51 AETHUS
65% matchVery Positive95% of 2,081 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.2% ★, Mining 19.9% ★, Automation 13.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 9.8%
- #52 Planet Explorers
70% matchMixed62% of 6,818 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.1% ★, Voxel 14.3% ★, Open World 13.2%, Crafting 10.8%, RPG 7.3%
- #53 No Man's Sky
66% matchVery Positive85% of 421,258 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Space 15.4%, Open World 12.8%, Space Sim 12.3%, Crafting 6.1%
- #54 Astrometica: Prologue
65% matchVery Positive90% of 1,306 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Astrometica: Prologue is the free game about surviving in space. You need to use your skills and tools to stay alive. There are many challenges to face, and you need to fight to survive. You also need to build a new base in space.
Why similar: Space Sim 22.8%, Automation 13.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Space 9.8%, Open World 8.8%
- #55 Avorion
66% matchVery Positive90% of 14,588 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 99.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
Why similar: Voxel 35.6% ★, Space Sim 27%, Space 13.5%, Open World 10.3%, Management 7.7%
- #56 SpaceBourne 2
64% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,166 reviews2025
Dev: Burak Dabak
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Embark on a journey to greatness. Get ready for adrenaline-fueled battles and a chance to claim your place in the galaxy. Grab the controls of your ship, gear up for the fight, and unleash your ambition to conquer and build a new empire in the vastness of space.
Why similar: Space Sim 25.5%, Mining 13.8% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Space 10.1%, RPG 9.1%
- #57 BossConstructor
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 221 reviews2016
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Scavenge modules, combine them in the deadliest and most efficient ways imaginable, and fly your very own spaceship through alien space with BossConstructor. Thousands of procedurally generated galaxies await you and your space-faring collection of assembled modules to explore them.
Why similar: Space 32.1%, RPG 28.3%, Action 14.5%, Management 9.9%, Indie 6.4%