- #1 Star Crafter
97% matchMixed69% of 104 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 18.1% ★, Open World Survival Craft 17.4% ★, Mining 14.2% ★, Automation 10.1%, Base Building 7.9%
- #2 Astro Colony
96% matchVery Positive82% of 2,526 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 20.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Space Sim 14.3%, Space 12%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #3 Space Trash Scavenger
96% matchVery Positive84% of 518 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 26.4% ★, Automation 17.8%, Space Sim 11.5%, Space 10.2%, Crafting 10%
- #4 FortressCraft Evolved!
95% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,057 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 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 28.6% ★, Voxel 18.7% ★, Automation 17.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 7.4%
- #5 Cubic Odyssey
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,584 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 42.7% ★, Base Building 19.5%, RPG 11.8%, Space 5.3%, Open World 5%
- #6 StarMade
94% matchMixed68% of 2,982 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 20.6%, Open World 11.1%, Space Sim 10.7%, Crafting 7.3%
- #7 Astrometica
93% matchVery Positive83% of 3,055 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 21.4%, Automation 13.6%, Open World Survival Craft 12.5% ★, Crafting 9.1%, Base Building 8.8%
- #8 Orebound
92% matchMostly Positive78% of 913 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 29.1% ★, Mining 16.5% ★, Automation 15.3%, Base Building 9.1%, Crafting 8.7%
- #9 Elsewhere
91% matchVery Positive96% of 71 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 21.7% ★, Automation 20.1%, Crafting 12.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #10 Evospace
91% matchVery Positive83% of 388 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 28.8% ★, Automation 18.4%, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 14%, Open World 9.4%
- #11 Skyformer
89% matchVery Positive87% of 67 reviews2025
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!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Automation 18.5%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 9.8%, Space 8.8%
- #12 Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
90% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,148 reviews2020
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.0 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 21.9% ★, Space Sim 20%, Automation 12.7%, Space 9.7%, Crafting 8.8%
- #13 Nova Lands
89% matchVery Positive89% of 3,422 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.3 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 26.3% ★, Automation 23%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 10%, Crafting 9.8%
- #14 Prospector
88% matchMostly Positive71% 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% ★, Automation 16.8%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 10.2%, Crafting 9.7%
- #15 Omega Crafter
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 566 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 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 30.7% ★, Automation 24.6%, Crafting 13.6%, Open World 11.5%, RPG 7.4%
- #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 35.8% ★, Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 7.6%, RPG 6.6%
- #17 Craterbound
87% matchMixed54% 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 25.4% ★, Space Sim 14.7%, Voxel 11.7% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Space 10.3%
- #18 ASTRONEER
85% matchVery Positive92% of 137,959 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.2 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 34.5% ★, Space 14.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Open World 11.3%, Automation 10%
- #19 TerraTech Worlds
84% matchMixed63% of 2,228 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 26.5% ★, Mining 18.2% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Automation 12.2%, Crafting 10.4%
- #20 Out of Orbit
84% matchVery Positive80% of 142 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 21.8%, Base Building 20.1%, RPG 17.6%, Open World 13%, Action 8.8%
- #21 Outworld Station
80% matchVery Positive86% of 714 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 29%, Base Building 18.6%, Space 16.8%, Crafting 12.9%, Management 11.2%
- #22 Boundless
82% matchMixed70% of 2,767 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.9 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 33.9% ★, Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.2%, RPG 5.1%
- #23 Starbase
82% matchMixed56% of 6,719 reviews2021
Dev: Frozenbyte
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 91.3 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 23.1% ★, Space Sim 20%, Programming 13.8% ★, Open World Survival Craft 11.3% ★, Space 9.1%
- #24 GRAV
83% matchMixed47% of 6,921 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 43.6% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 10.3%, Space 9.4%
- #25 FOUNDRY
79% matchVery Positive81% of 3,779 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 46.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 34.5% ★, Automation 17.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.1%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #26 Minicology
81% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Isaac DennerPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.0 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 24.8%, Open World Survival Craft 22.5% ★, Automation 16%, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 9%
- #27 XenoHaven
78% matchVery Positive86% of 69 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 26.3% ★, Base Building 14%, Automation 11.5%, Open World 11%, Crafting 10.5%
- #28 Outpath
77% matchVery Positive93% of 2,948 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Automation 17.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 12.1%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #29 The Planet Crafter
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 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 27.1% ★, Automation 14.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Space 9.6%, Crafting 9.4%
- #30 Starship EVO
79% matchVery Positive84% of 1,435 reviews2020
Dev: Moonfire Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 34.5% ★, Space 21.2%, Space Sim 20.6%, Open World 7.9%, Action 7.8%
- #31 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
75% matchVery Positive91% of 7,431 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Automation 16.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 8.2%
- #32 Satisfactory
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 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 25.6%, Base Building 18.6%, Open World Survival Craft 14.2% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 10.1%
- #33 Rebots
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 55 reviews2024
Dev: FlatPoniesPub: Astra Logical
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 21.3%, Automation 19.7%, Space 12%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.6%
- #34 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
75% matchVery Positive84% of 2,228 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 26.5%, Base Building 15.7%, Logic 13%, Resource Management 13%, Crafting 11.9%
- #35 Necesse
72% matchVery Positive93% of 27,199 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 43.4% ★, Automation 11.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 9.3%, Base Building 9.1%
- #36 AutoForge
73% matchVery Positive87% of 457 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
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 30.5%, Base Building 19.5%, Crafting 16.9%, Resource Management 16.3%, Exploration 7%
- #37 AETHUS
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,744 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
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: Mining 18.8% ★, Open World Survival Craft 18% ★, Automation 13.4%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 9.1%
- #38 Crafting Block World
76% matchMixed47% of 53 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 48.1% ★, Mining 17.3% ★, Base Building 8.3%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 6.4%
- #39 Interstellar Rift
74% matchMixed68% of 1,660 reviews2020
Dev: Split PolygonPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.5 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 26.2%, Mining 23.1% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Space 10.8%, Open World 10%
- #40 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,194 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.8 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 29.4% ★, Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Space Sim 16.8%, Space 9.9%, Crafting 7.8%
- #41 Eden Crafters
69% matchVery Positive86% of 2,425 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 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 28.4% ★, Automation 20.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Space 8%
- #42 Dyson Sphere Program
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,697 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 27.4%, Base Building 17%, Space 15.4%, Space Sim 11.1%, Resource Management 10.7%
- #43 TerraTech
71% matchVery Positive91% of 24,617 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 33.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.7% ★, Open World 17.2%, Crafting 16.7%, Exploration 5.4%, Action 5.1%
- #44 Astral Terra
74% 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 29.8% ★, Voxel 28.9% ★, Mining 10.3% ★, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 7.4%
- #45 Blossom: The Seed of Life
67% matchVery Positive89% of 884 reviews2026
Dev: Pebbledust GamesPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Space Sim 18.4%, Automation 13.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 8.9%
- #46 Windforge
73% matchMixed68% of 619 reviews2014
Dev: Snowed In Studios
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 43%
WindForge is a side-scrolling block-building game where you explore hostile skies in an ever-changing Steampunk world. Everything you see can be created or destroyed, creating an RPG without barriers that rewards creative problem solving and improvisation.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.3% ★, Crafting 16.4%, RPG 15.9%, Open World 9.9%, Action 6.7%
- #47 Mechanica
71% matchMixed63% of 635 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 35.5% ★, Open World Survival Craft 22.7% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Automation 13.3%, Logic 9.1%
- #48 Breathedge
69% matchVery Positive82% of 16,224 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 37.3% ★, Space 15%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 9.5%, First-Person 7.1%
- #49 SpaceKraft!
68% matchVery Positive91% of 96 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: Mining 40.2% ★, Space Sim 39.1%, Open World 13.3%, Adventure 4.2%, Singleplayer 3.2%
- #50 Planet Explorers
70% matchMixed62% of 6,817 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 43.8% ★, Voxel 14.5% ★, Open World 13%, Crafting 11%, RPG 7.2%
- #51 No Man's Sky
67% matchVery Positive85% of 406,987 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.2 hrsMean: 70.4 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 35.9% ★, Space 15.4%, Open World 12.6%, Space Sim 12.4%, Crafting 6.3%
- #52 Astrometica: Prologue
66% matchVery Positive90% of 1,290 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 22.4%, Automation 14.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Space 9.6%, Crafting 8.8%
- #53 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,680 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 10.8%, Automation 9.5%, Open World 9.1%
- #54 Sector Space
64% matchVery Positive96% of 82 reviews2025
Dev: Robin M. FarrellPub: Outer Vision Games
Windows · Linux
Explore a procedurally generated galaxy, mine asteroids, refine minerals, colonize planets, build stations, deploy drones, salvage rare items, construct gear, level up, improve your ship, assemble a fleet, engage in combat, and take on the void.
Why similar: Space Sim 43.7%, RPG 23.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Exploration 8.1%, Space 7.3%
- #55 StarRupture
62% matchVery Positive81% of 12,313 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Automation 21.4%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 9.6%
- #56 STAR-BOX: RPG Adventures in Space
70% matchMixed50% of 86 reviews2015
Dev: Michael FlynnPub: FlynnFour Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 98%
STAR-BOX – RPG Adventures in Space!Strap on your gravity boots, power up your laser, and climb aboard your spaceship for a retro-styled, RPG-jaunt into the unknown!Travel an open-world, sandbox universe where you are the architect of your own story.
Why similar: RPG 32.8%, Space 25.5%, Open World 14.2%, Action 10.8%, Adventure 9.4%
- #57 Star Ores Inc.
63% matchVery Positive82% of 314 reviews2025
Dev: BlackBeak GamesPub: Three River Games (3RG)
Windows
Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine. Cut through the asteroid with your laser, sell ore, and create an automated network of robot helpers to maximize your profit.
Why similar: Mining 24.6% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Space 12.4%, Resource Management 10.5%, Management 10.4%