Games Like Outpath: First Journey

The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Farming Sim 16.6%, Crafting 14.4%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game is the gold standard for the island-hopping, resource-gathering, and crafting loop that defines the Outpath experience.

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 17% ★, Farming Sim 14.3%, Automation 11.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: The full version of the seed game expands significantly on the prologue's mechanics with more depth, automation, and content.

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 20.9% ★, Automation 18.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Farming Sim 11.5%, Resource Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features a very similar island-hopping gameplay loop where you automate resource production across multiple distinct biomes.

The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 11.3%, Resource Management 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that focuses on expanding your world tile-by-tile, mirroring the progression style of the seed game.

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 23.8%, Base Building 21.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Open World Survival Craft 12.9% ★, Resource Management 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a high-fidelity 3D automation experience for those who want to scale up their base-building and production lines.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Automation 33.1%, Base Building 24.8%, Resource Management 17.2%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate automation game, perfect for players who enjoy the resource management and efficiency aspects of Outpath.

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 28.5% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Automation 15.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on terraforming a barren world through resource management and base building, providing a similar sense of accomplishment.

Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Base Building 19.3%, Crafting 16.3%, Building 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a compelling top-down exploration and crafting experience with a strong focus on base building and resource gathering.

Idle Research is an addictive, resource management, incremental game with both idle and active playstyles. Research and craft colorful Flasks and Tubes to earn as much Energy as possible! Big numbers guaranteed.

Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Incremental 21.4%, Idler 20.9%, Resource Management 15.1%, Crafting 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A deep, satisfying idler game that focuses on automation and resource scaling, perfect for fans of the clicker elements.

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 40.1% ★, Farming Sim 23.4%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 9.8%, Relaxing 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: An island-based farming and building sim that offers a more relaxed, community-focused take on the resource management genre.

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 38.9% ★, Base Building 18%, Automation 11.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features beautiful exploration and base building on alien planets with a focus on resource extraction and creative construction.

Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Crafting 27.6%, Building 12.9%, Automation 10.8%, Multiplayer 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that blends farming, automation, and crafting into a massive, feature-rich experience.

A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.

Why similar: Automation 25.1%, Incremental 22.5%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 15.5%, Idler 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated clicker and automation game that mirrors the core loop of gathering resources to build more efficient production.

Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!

Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Idler 17.4%, Resource Management 15.4%, Crafting 15%, Base Building 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the math and efficiency of automation, appealing to players who enjoy the optimization side of Outpath.

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51% ★, Crafting 16.4%, Building 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Multiplayer 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival-crafting game that provides endless progression through mining, building, and boss-fighting.

This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Base Building 34.8%, Resource Management 24.3%, Building 18.5%, Crafting 14%, Atmospheric 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-based city builder that requires careful resource management to keep your population alive in a harsh environment.

shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

Why similar: Automation 31.7%, Base Building 22.3%, Resource Management 17.6%, Crafting 16.2%, Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A pure automation game that strips away survival elements to focus entirely on the logic and efficiency of production lines.

Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.

Why similar: First-Person 52.8%, Adventure 28.1%, Casual 11.8%, Singleplayer 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines farming and exploration with a charming aesthetic, focusing on managing resources and expanding your ranch.

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 41.6% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Automation 11.7%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival and crafting game that includes base building and settlement management with a focus on progression.

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

Why similar: Farming Sim 45.2%, Crafting 14.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%, Building 10.4%, Relaxing 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential farming and life sim that offers deep crafting and resource management mechanics.

The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.

Why similar: Farming Sim 30.9%, Crafting 23.1%, Building 17.9%, Pixel Graphics 13.3%, Relaxing 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy town-building game that emphasizes resource management and relationship building in a relaxing, low-stress environment.

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: Automation 24.8%, Base Building 20.5%, Crafting 16.5%, Resource Management 15.8%, Building 13.9%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that allows for massive, complex factory building in an infinite world.

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: Farming Sim 42.7%, Crafting 23%, Building 22.3%, Multiplayer 6.5%, Adventure 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A robust crafting and building game where you manage a workshop and contribute to the growth of a desert town.

Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Base Building 43.5%, Crafting 41%, Atmospheric 8.4%, Adventure 7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the satisfying destruction of the environment to gather resources for crafting and base upgrades.

Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.

Why similar: Crafting 48.1%, Pixel Graphics 23.6%, Building 20.6%, Adventure 4.7%, Multiplayer 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique, dark twist on the resource management and crafting genre with a heavy emphasis on automation.

Lead the Balgairs - mercenaries creatures and experts in the art of hard working - manage the workforce, inputs, capital, other resources and help provide all the equipment and weaponry needed to defeat bosses in distant Dungeons

Why similar: Farming Sim 19.7%, Base Building 15.6%, Idler 14%, Automation 13.8%, Resource Management 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A casual idler game that focuses on island management and resource accumulation, very similar in theme to the seed game.

Instant town building toy. Place housing blocks and watch them transform, piece by piece, into idyllic ocean-side towns, pastoral gardens, or sweeping cities on the sea.

Why similar: Building 46.8%, Relaxing 25.1%, Atmospheric 16.9%, Casual 8.5%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A purely creative building game that focuses on the joy of construction without the pressure of resource management.

Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.5% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Building 14.9%, Crafting 14.5%, Resource Management 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: A complex resource management game where players must build a civilization while balancing the impact on the environment.

Click, craft and collect your way to alchemical mastery. Progress through a branching skill tree and explore the forbidden woods. Collect resources and build machines of magic. Slay monsters, farm crops and automate your production to become the all-powerful Forage Wizard!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 16.7% ★, Farming Sim 11.4%, Automation 10.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Incremental 10.2%

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 28.7% ★, Automation 16.5%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Resource Management 9.4%

You have inherited your grandparents farm as they set off to travel the world. Work with Frank at the local construction shop to finish off the final touches on your new home. Aid Frank and Mayor Wilson in building up the town so it may reach it's full potential.

Why similar: Farming Sim 37.8%, Crafting 23.7%, Building 21%, Relaxing 9.7%, Multiplayer 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A cute and casual farming and building game that allows for significant customization of your island home.

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 31.8% ★, Base Building 18.3%, Crafting 13.6%, Automation 10.3%, Resource Management 8.1%

A highly addictive survival crafting tower defense game! Gather, craft, build turrets, shoot guns, and expand the land to defend against waves of enemies! The prologue for the full game, World Crafter TD!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Automation 16.5%, Farming Sim 15.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 12.3%

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 20.4% ★, Automation 18.6%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 13.5%, Crafting 12.5%

Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!

Why similar: Farming Sim 15.2%, Idler 14.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Automation 13.1%, Resource Management 10.6%

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 25.2% ★, Farming Sim 21%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 12.5%, Resource Management 11.8%

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 25.5% ★, Automation 19.2%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 9.7%

After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.

Why similar: Farming Sim 21.1%, Automation 18.7%, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 11.9%, Crafting 11.6%

Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits! The free prologue for the full game!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Automation 19.8%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 12.8%, Resource Management 12.2%

Miniland: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full game. Your task is to build your world and fight against your enemies. The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 13%, Building 10.4%, Resource Management 10.4%

Build a super large island with robots in this relaxing idle farm simulation game. Assign tasks to robots to plant, raise animals and build various buildings to expand your island. Even when you're busy, the game can run quietly at the corner or bottom of the screen and keep developing your farm.

Why similar: Farming Sim 26.5%, Automation 22.7%, Idler 18.9%, Building 11%, Incremental 6%

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: Automation 22.7%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 13.8%, Resource Management 13.7%, Building 11.8%

Start in a bedroom with one 3D printer and build a manufacturing empire! Manage filaments, upgrade machines, hire staff, and expand into a factory in this addictive idle tycoon game.

Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Farming Sim 25.3%, Idler 20.9%, Incremental 18.1%, Resource Management 6.3%

Casual farming simulator with unique, flexible gameplay. Autoclicker is built-in and free. Gather resources, upgrade critters and buildings, sell your farm when you want a bigger one and never stop expanding.

Why similar: Incremental 28.7%, Farming Sim 21.1%, Idler 15.4%, Resource Management 10.2%, Automation 10.1%

Tiny Isle is a cozy island-building simulation game. Grow crops, collect crystals, expand and customize your magical island, and welcome sprites and animal residents. Play actively with hands-on planning, or relax with full idle progression as your island comes to life at your own pace.

Why similar: Incremental 17.1%, Resource Management 16.5%, Building 14.7%, Idler 13.9%, Farming Sim 13%

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: Farming Sim 29.1%, Base Building 19.5%, Crafting 18.6%, Building 13.9%, Resource Management 12.4%

In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Why similar: Automation 30.2%, Base Building 17.3%, Farming Sim 16.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Resource Management 9.8%

Land Above Sea Below Prologue is an atmospheric first chapter of the building strategy and puzzle game where you have to build your island from tiles in order to raise its height as much as possible, to avoid it getting flooded by the constantly rising sea level.

Why similar: Building 63.5%, 3D 18.1%, Casual 10.2%, Atmospheric 5.2%, Adventure 2.2%

Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.

Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Base Building 16.5%, Idler 15.3%, Resource Management 14%, Incremental 13.8%

A farming & restaurant management sim with base building elements. Grow in backyard to cook & serve! Discover new recipes by exploring ingredients on the island; gather, fish, raise animals & produce with machines. Manage resources, hire staff & grow your organic business into a 5-star restaurant!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.8% ★, Farming Sim 20%, Automation 15.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Resource Management 10.3%

Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.

Why similar: Crafting 28.9%, Base Building 23.5%, Building 21.7%, Multiplayer 8.6%, First-Person 8%

Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full game. Disco Simulator: Prologue is a game where you play the role of the owner and manager of a music club. Buy equipment, sound system, lighting and decide on the appearance of your club. Make money and have fun!

Why similar: Base Building 34.6%, Resource Management 22.9%, Atmospheric 12.4%, 3D 8.8%, Adventure 7%

Foundations is a free version of Masterplan Tycoon, a minimalist resource management sim. The world is your playground: start with simple production lines for basic needs and evolve into a production powerhouse in an elegant and stress-free setting

Why similar: Automation 31.1%, Resource Management 29.6%, Building 24.7%, Atmospheric 6.3%, Relaxing 3.9%

A casual heavy equipment experience. Mine ore, Move dirt, Build and repair.

Why similar: Farming Sim 30.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 13.4%, Crafting 13%, First-Person 7.4%

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 31.5% ★, Base Building 21.3%, Crafting 15.1%, Automation 14.1%, Building 12.5%