- #1 Forager
97% matchVery Positive90% of 43,003 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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% ★, Farming Sim 16.7%, Crafting 14.5%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 7.6%
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.
- #2 Outpath
96% matchVery Positive94% of 2,905 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 16.7% ★, Farming Sim 14.2%, Automation 11.8%, 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.
- #3 Nova Lands
96% matchVery Positive89% of 3,351 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.4 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 20.5% ★, Automation 19.1%, Base Building 14.6%, Farming Sim 11.5%, Resource Management 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features a very similar island-hopping gameplay loop where you automate resource production across multiple distinct biomes.
- #4 Miniland Adventure
95% matchMostly Positive74% of 328 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 31.5% ★, Base Building 15%, Crafting 13.4%, Resource Management 11.4%, Building 11.3%
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.
- #5 Satisfactory
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 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 24.2%, Base Building 21.3%, Crafting 13.1%, Open World Survival Craft 12.6% ★, Resource Management 11.4%
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.
- #6 Factorio
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 188.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 33.4%, Base Building 24.6%, Resource Management 17.4%, Crafting 12.8%, Building 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: The ultimate automation game, perfect for players who enjoy the resource management and efficiency aspects of Outpath.
- #7 The Planet Crafter
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 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 27.8% ★, Base Building 17%, Automation 15.8%, Crafting 12%, Building 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on terraforming a barren world through resource management and base building, providing a similar sense of accomplishment.
- #8 Core Keeper
91% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 29.7% ★, Base Building 19.3%, Crafting 16.4%, 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.
- #9 Idle Research
91% matchVery Positive84% of 1,828 reviews2022
Dev: Considera Games LLCPub: Considera Core LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 78.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 23%, Idler 21.6%, Clicker 19.6%, Resource Management 15.5%, Crafting 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: A deep, satisfying idler game that focuses on automation and resource scaling, perfect for fans of the clicker elements.
- #10 Dinkum
89% matchVery Positive92% of 28,435 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 28.4 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 39.7% ★, Farming Sim 23.6%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 9.8%, Relaxing 6.5%
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.
- #11 ASTRONEER
90% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 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 38.5% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Automation 11.7%, Crafting 11.4%, 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.
- #12 Craftopia
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 19,974 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 39.7% ★, Crafting 27.9%, Building 12.9%, Automation 11%, 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.
- #13 Widget Inc.
87% matchVery Positive86% of 740 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 61.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 26.3%, Clicker 19.8%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 15.9%, Idler 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: A dedicated clicker and automation game that mirrors the core loop of gathering resources to build more efficient production.
- #14 Incremental Factory
88% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 24.8%, Idler 17.7%, Resource Management 15.5%, Crafting 14.9%, Base Building 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the math and efficiency of automation, appealing to players who enjoy the optimization side of Outpath.
- #15 Oxygen: First Breath
86% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
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 34.7%, Resource Management 24.7%, Building 18.3%, 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.
- #16 Terraria
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,511,859 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 149.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.7% ★, Crafting 16.6%, Building 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Multiplayer 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: A classic survival-crafting game that provides endless progression through mining, building, and boss-fighting.
- #17 Slime Rancher
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 151,397 reviews2017
Dev: Monomi Park
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 52.9%, Adventure 27.9%, 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.
- #18 shapez
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,210 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 31.9%, Base Building 22.1%, Resource Management 17.9%, Crafting 16.1%, Building 9.9%
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.
- #19 Necesse
81% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 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 41.3% ★, Automation 12%, Crafting 11.9%, 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.
- #20 Littlewood
84% matchVery Positive93% of 6,792 reviews2020
Dev: Sean YoungPub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 23.2%, Building 17.7%, Pixel Graphics 13.3%, Relaxing 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy town-building game that emphasizes resource management and relationship building in a relaxing, low-stress environment.
- #21 Stardew Valley
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 992,215 reviews2016
Dev: ConcernedApe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 22.7 hrsMean: 83.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 10.9%, Building 10.3%, Relaxing 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential farming and life sim that offers deep crafting and resource management mechanics.
- #22 FOUNDRY
82% matchVery Positive81% of 3,508 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 25.1%, Base Building 20.3%, Crafting 16.4%, Resource Management 16.1%, Building 13.7%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that allows for massive, complex factory building in an infinite world.
- #23 My Time at Sandrock
79% matchVery Positive88% of 28,280 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 39.3 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: Farming Sim 42.8%, Crafting 23.1%, Building 22.1%, Multiplayer 6.4%, 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.
- #24 DYSMANTLE
80% matchVery Positive91% of 11,317 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 43.6%, 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.
- #25 Island Idle RPG
82% matchMixed67% of 94 reviews2022
Dev: Overaction Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 19.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Idler 14.3%, Automation 13.9%, Resource Management 12.2%
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.
- #26 Graveyard Keeper
81% matchVery Positive86% of 46,799 reviews2018
Dev: Lazy Bear GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 31.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 49.3%, Pixel Graphics 23.7%, Building 20.7%, Adventure 4.8%, Singleplayer 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.
- #27 Townscaper
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 21,438 reviews2021
Dev: Oskar StålbergPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 42 minMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 43%
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 46.5%, Relaxing 25.3%, Atmospheric 17%, 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.
- #28 Eco
79% matchVery Positive81% of 13,777 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 88.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 34.1% ★, Base Building 18%, Building 14.8%, Crafting 14.6%, Resource Management 13.9%
Why You'll Like It: A complex resource management game where players must build a civilization while balancing the impact on the environment.
- #29 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
75% matchVery Positive91% of 7,161 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Automation 16.7%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #30 Garden Paws
78% matchVery Positive90% of 2,485 reviews2018
Dev: Bitten Toast Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 37.9%, Crafting 23.8%, Building 20.8%, Relaxing 9.8%, 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.
- #31 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,643 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 31.5% ★, Base Building 18.3%, Crafting 13.7%, Automation 10.4%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #32 World Crafter TD: Prologue
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 99 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 25.3% ★, Automation 16.8%, Farming Sim 15.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 12.3%
- #33 Prospector
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 149 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 20% ★, Automation 18.9%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 13.8%, Crafting 12.5%
- #34 Skyformer
72% matchVery Positive90% of 59 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% ★, Automation 19.6%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 9.6%
- #35 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 198 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
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 23.9% ★, Automation 20.1%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 12.8%, Resource Management 12.4%
- #36 Miniland Adventure: Prologue
72% matchVery Positive87% of 721 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
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 29.9% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 13.1%, Resource Management 10.6%, Building 10.4%
- #37 Incremental Town RPG
73% matchMixed60% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: Overaction Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 15.1%, Idler 14.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Automation 13.3%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #38 Tribe: Primitive Builder
71% matchVery Positive81% of 760 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: Automation 23%, Base Building 16.7%, Resource Management 13.9%, Crafting 13.7%, Building 11.6%
- #39 Island Robot Farm
70% matchVery Positive88% of 160 reviews2025
Dev: MoraCocoPub: Wise Games
Windows
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 26.3%, Automation 23%, Idler 19.4%, Building 10.8%, Clicker 5.7%
- #40 Faun Town
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 105 reviews2025
Dev: 游乐坊Pub: 2P Games
Windows
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%, Automation 19%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 12.1%, Crafting 11.5%
- #41 Critter Clicker
75% matchMixed57% of 110 reviews2020
Dev: TimeWastingGames
Windows
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: Farming Sim 24.4%, Idler 18.4%, Clicker 16.6%, Resource Management 12.1%, Automation 11.9%
- #42 Tiny Isle
69% matchVery Positive92% of 139 reviews2026
Dev: Nature Rituals StudioPub: Etherous Games Limited
Windows
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: Resource Management 16.9%, Clicker 16.3%, Building 14.6%, Idler 14.3%, Farming Sim 13%
- #43 Land Above Sea Below Prologue
71% matchVery Positive82% of 145 reviews2023
Dev: Glasscannon StudioPub: Skystone Games
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 31%
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 63.4%, 3D 18.1%, Casual 10.3%, Atmospheric 5.3%, Adventure 2.2%
- #44 Pathless Woods
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,093 reviews2024
Dev: AniYa Games Studio
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 19.4%, Crafting 18.6%, Building 13.8%, Resource Management 12.6%
- #45 Industry Idle
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,446 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 29.1 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 22%, Base Building 16.5%, Idler 15.7%, Resource Management 14.2%, Clicker 13.1%
- #46 Lightyear Frontier
68% matchVery Positive84% of 4,206 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 24.8% ★, Farming Sim 21%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 12.6%, Resource Management 12.1%
- #47 Autonauts
70% matchVery Positive90% of 4,915 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 30.5%, Base Building 17.2%, Farming Sim 16.5%, Crafting 11.5%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #48 Disco Simulator: Prologue
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 226 reviews2023
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 28%
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 34.5%, Resource Management 23.3%, Atmospheric 12.4%, 3D 8.8%, Adventure 6.9%
- #49 Out of Ore
68% matchVery Positive86% of 3,794 reviews2022
Dev: North Modding Company AB
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A casual heavy equipment experience. Mine ore, Move dirt, Build and repair.
Why similar: Farming Sim 30.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 13.2%, Crafting 13.1%, First-Person 7.5%
- #50 refarm
66% matchVery Positive87% of 286 reviews2024
Dev: otterhands
Windows
The ocean took it all… now take it back! In this short semi-idle island builder you’ll resurface fertile farmland - tile by tile. As you plant, harvest and expand you’ll obtain helping hands and discover what else lies below the surface.
Why similar: Farming Sim 31.6%, Resource Management 17.9%, Clicker 15.3%, Automation 14.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%
- #51 Masterplan Tycoon: Foundations
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 246 reviews2024
Dev: Bureau BravinPub: Ravenage Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 19%
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 31.4%, Resource Management 29.9%, Building 24.2%, Atmospheric 6.3%, Relaxing 3.9%
- #52 Click Mage
64% matchVery Positive92% of 2,408 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Crow Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Click Mage is a unique 2D resource gatherer and building game. Mine and process resources, upgrade your clicking power and construct buildings on an idyllic island with beautiful pixel art graphics.
Why similar: Clicker 27.2%, Resource Management 24.1%, Crafting 18.7%, Relaxing 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%
- #53 XenoHaven
65% matchVery Positive86% of 64 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 31.1% ★, Base Building 21.4%, Crafting 15.1%, Automation 14.4%, Building 12.5%
- #54 AETHUS
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,163 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: Open World Survival Craft 22.3% ★, Automation 17.9%, Base Building 17.6%, Crafting 14.4%, Resource Management 13.1%
- #55 Eden Crafters
64% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Automation 21%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 13%, Building 9.2%