- #1 Voidtrain
97% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,447 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Trains 30.6% ★, Co-op 10.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.7%, Building 8.4%
- #2 Heat Death: Survival Train
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 673 reviews2024
Dev: Mass Game DevsPub: LightOnDevs
Windows
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
Why similar: Trains 27.5% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Building 13.5%, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 9.5%
- #3 Infinite Rails
96% matchVery Positive89% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: Benjamin Voráč
Windows · Mac
A railway-building adventure in an endless, procedurally generated world. Lay tracks, transport passengers and goods, complete tasks, and unlock unique locomotives. Play solo or with friends and create your ultimate railway network!
Why similar: Trains 43.8% ★, Sandbox 14.7%, Co-op 12.2%, Building 11.4%, Open World 8%
- #4 Zompiercer
95% matchVery Positive89% of 4,324 reviews2020
Dev: DDDimanN
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Take control of the train which will become your haven on the rails. Collect resources, craft equipment, construct a cozy house on railway cars, and travel through the carefully handcrafted locations to explore the story of a zombie apocalypse world.
Why similar: Trains 36.7% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 9.2%
- #5 Occupy Mars: The Game
94% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,070 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 15.1%, Building 13.9%, Survival 11.9%, Co-op 11.6%
- #6 Satisfactory
94% 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 19.6%, Base Building 17.9%, Building 11.7%, Co-op 10.6%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #7 Core Keeper
92% matchVery Positive93% of 64,481 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 34.1 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: Sandbox 14.7%, Base Building 14.6%, Building 14.6%, Survival 13.2%, Co-op 13%
- #8 TerraTech Worlds
93% 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: Base Building 12.9%, Mining 12.6% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 11.2%, Co-op 10.3%
- #9 Orebound
91% 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: Automation 15.9%, Mining 15.1% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Building 11.5%, Co-op 10.9%
- #10 Scrapnaut
91% matchMixed70% of 827 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Building 18.8%, Survival 15.3%, Co-op 14.7%, Sandbox 14.4%, Base Building 11.6%
- #11 Loco Shortline Operations
90% matchVery Positive87% of 69 reviews2021
Dev: TSRS
Windows
Openworld Railbuilder Simulator with Realistic Physics based Locomotives,Trucks,Cranes,Boats,Economy
Why similar: Trains 42% ★, Sandbox 20%, Building 19.1%, Co-op 9%, Exploration 5.6%
- #12 Frost Survival VR
89% matchVery Positive88% of 168 reviews2025
Dev: Wenkly Studio Sp. z o.o.
Windows
Sandbox Survival in VR. Face a frozen wilderness solo or in co-op - build a shelter, craft tools, hunt for food, and manage your resources to endure harsh conditions. Strategize your moves against unpredictable weather and lurking dangers. And remember to keep yourself safe and sane!
Why similar: Fishing 18.4% ★, Snow 16.2% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11.5%, Survival 11.2%
- #13 Shamania
88% matchMostly Positive77% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Survival 13.8%, Automation 13.4%, Sandbox 13%, Co-op 11.6%, Open World 11.6%
- #14 Crushed
89% matchMixed54% of 311 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Why similar: Survival 15.6%, Sandbox 14.8%, Building 14%, Base Building 13.4%, Open World 11.6%
- #15 Railroads Online
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 5,936 reviews2024
Dev: Stefan KelnbergerPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 66.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your dream railroad across a huge open world! You can build tracks and stations, drive detailed locomotives, and transport goods to earn money and experience. Play exciting Online Multiplayer sessions with your friends or create your very own sandbox!
Why similar: Trains 44.8% ★, Building 15.2%, Sandbox 14.4%, Open World 10.1%, Exploration 5.4%
- #16 Everwind
85% matchVery Positive82% of 3,221 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Building 17.4%, Sandbox 16.7%, Co-op 16%, Survival 14.9%, Open World 11.7%
- #17 Train Frontier Classic
87% matchVery Positive88% of 242 reviews2017
Dev: Team Train Frontier
Windows
Train Frontier Classic is a stylized landscape building and multiplayer train riding sandbox, inspired by the fun of model railroad building. Fill a scene with miles of scale track, hundreds of props, and a personal train car setup -- then go online to share and ride your creation with friends!
Why similar: Trains 78.6% ★, Sandbox 5.7%, Building 5.5%, Co-op 4%, Open World 2.9%
- #18 Derail Valley
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 9,005 reviews2019
Dev: Altfuture
Windows
Median: 14.4 hrsMean: 37.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Drive massive trains and build your career in a vast open railway network. For both PC and VR.
Why similar: Trains 63.5% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Open World 11.9%, First-Person 7.2%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #19 The Planet Crafter
84% 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: Base Building 14.6%, Automation 12.9%, Building 12.6%, Co-op 11.4%, Survival 11.4%
- #20 Volcanoids
84% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 14%, Building 13.9%, Co-op 12.6%, Survival 11.7%
- #21 Forever Skies
82% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Base Building 16.6%, Co-op 15.3%, Survival 13.8%, Building 13.1%, Open World 10.4%
- #22 Scrap Mechanic
83% matchVery Positive92% of 117,481 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Building 20.1%, Sandbox 16.9%, Survival 14%, Base Building 11.3%, Open World 10.8%
- #23 Omega Crafter
81% 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: Automation 20.5%, Survival 13.9%, Co-op 12.6%, Building 11.9%, Open World 11.1%
- #24 Among Trees
82% matchMixed68% of 2,222 reviews2021
Dev: FJRD Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.
Why similar: Cooking 17.8%, Survival 13.9%, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 11.7%, Base Building 10.9%
- #25 RailGods of Hysterra
81% matchMixed56% of 332 reviews2025
Dev: Troglobytes GamesPub: Digital Vortex Entertainment
Windows
Embark on a co-op survival journey for 1-5 players through a post-apocalyptic Lovecraftian world! Command and evolve a living, monstrous train, craft weapons, build a mobile base, gain powers, and face the Great Old Ones. Explore an ever-changing world, hold on to your sanity, and ascend to godhood!
Why similar: Base Building 22.7%, Survival 19.1%, Building 16.8%, Sandbox 16%, Crafting 14%
- #26 Unrailed 2: Back on Track
79% matchVery Positive88% of 1,851 reviews2024
Dev: Indoor Astronaut
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The chaotic co-op railroad construction game is back! Team up with your friends to build a railroad through procedurally generated worlds with new biomes and bosses. Permanently upgrade your character and engine, even create your own levels - just don‘t let your train derail!
Why similar: Trains 62.3% ★, Co-op 18.2%, Survival 16.6%, Casual 2.9%
- #27 Trackline Express
80% matchVery Positive88% of 144 reviews2024
Dev: Bubblebird Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Embark on a thrilling journey through an unforgiving desert. You'll need to gather scarce resources and utilize your strategic and management skills to build a little train capable of overcoming attacks and fires.
Why similar: Trains 60% ★, Survival 18.9%, Automation 10.2%, Crafting 7.6%, Casual 3.3%
- #28 Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator
78% matchVery Positive92% of 1,837 reviews2024
Dev: PentaclePub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Take control of a Soviet locomotive and embark on a dangerous journey along the world's longest railway line. Face mafia rivals, bandits, wild animals, constant breakdowns, severe frosts, hunger, and... a hangover. How far will you get before your supplies run out?
Why similar: Trains 45.4% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Survival 13.5%, Open World 9.9%, First-Person 6.6%
- #29 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
77% 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: Automation 15.9%, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 10.7%, Open World 9.1%
- #30 Eden Crafters
76% 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: Automation 18.1%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 11.6%, Survival 9.6%
- #31 Unrailed!
77% matchVery Positive93% of 19,556 reviews2020
Dev: Indoor AstronautPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Unrailed! is a co-op multiplayer game where you have to work together with your friends to build a train track across endless procedurally generated worlds. Master random encounters with its inhabitants, upgrade your train and keep it from derailing!
Why similar: Trains 60.9% ★, Co-op 25.1%, Survival 10.5%, Casual 3.5%
- #32 Russian Train Trip
79% matchMixed55% of 135 reviews2021
Dev: Stop-TussiN
Windows
Traveling on passenger trains in Russia. First-person exploration.
Why similar: Trains 57.5% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 11%, Exploration 7.2%, First-Person 4.7%
- #33 Survival Machine
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 687 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Base Building 30.3%, Survival 23%, Crafting 20.1%, Exploration 11.3%, 3D 7.6%
- #34 Train Mechanic Simulator 2017
78% matchMixed67% of 820 reviews2017
Dev: Si7 StudioPub: Atomic Jelly
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Take your opportunity as real Train Mechanic. Find locomotives around game world that needs your help and repair them in one of 3 workshops localized in huge 25 km2 open world. You will be face all types of damages in all genres of trains: Diesel, Electric and even Old-School Steam units.
Why similar: Trains 48.3% ★, Building 18.2%, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 8.4%, Crafting 5.6%
- #35 Rising World
76% matchVery Positive86% of 5,890 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Mining 18.4% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Building 14%, Sandbox 13.5%, Survival 11.2%
- #36 Project: Mist
73% matchMixed69% of 122 reviews2026
Dev: Chicken Launcher
Windows
Explore a remote island solo or in MULTIPLAYER co-op in this open-world survival horror. Manipulate objects and enemies with the Gravity Gun, build a moving train base, fight giant creatures, catch critters, upgrade your gear, and survive a hostile world shaped by abandoned, mysterious facilities.
Why similar: Cooking 26.3%, Building 20.2%, Survival 15.8%, Open World 14.2%, Crafting 13%
- #37 Caravanners
74% matchMixed41% of 794 reviews2025
Dev: Akif AkdemirPub: PLEXUS GAME
Windows
Design your dream caravan in detail, roam freely with your mobile home, set up your camp with friends, and enjoy music by the campfire in a vast open world!
Why similar: Fishing 24.7% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Co-op 12.9%, Building 12.2%, Survival 11.6%
- #38 SantaCraft
75% matchVery Positive97% of 110 reviews2020
Dev: Milkbag Games
Windows
Dig your way through snow, cut down gingerbread trees, and mine candy canes as you try to rescue your missing reindeer, rebuild Santa's Village, and save Christmas! In the latest FREE update: trains you can ride, new quests, new items, new puns, and more!
Why similar: Fishing 16.8% ★, Snow 16.7% ★, Mining 16.1% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Building 11.3%
- #39 Outbound
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,416 reviews2026
Dev: Square Glade Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Explore a colorful world and build your own cozy home on wheels. Craft workstations, and source energy from the sun, wind, or water. Upgrade and customize your vehicle, grow crops, and live sustainably off-grid with up to 4 players.
Why similar: Base Building 21%, Building 20%, Sandbox 18.1%, Open World 12.8%, Crafting 12.7%
- #40 Hydroneer
73% matchVery Positive86% of 27,793 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Mining 17.1% ★, Automation 16%, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 12.5%, Co-op 11.3%
- #41 Train World
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 96 reviews2023
Dev: Turn Point Games
Windows
Become a railroad pioneer in Train World - a railway simulator that spans centuries as you design, manage, and operate your own train network. Start at the dawn of railroad technology and evolve into a complex, modern railway company.
Why similar: Trains 46.5% ★, Sandbox 17.2%, Building 12%, Automation 12%, Open World 5.7%
- #42 StarRupture
70% 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: Automation 18.1%, Base Building 15.6%, Co-op 13.1%, Sandbox 13%, Survival 12.7%
- #43 Longvinter
70% matchMixed67% of 7,565 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 42.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Survival 18.9%, Sandbox 15.7%, Building 13.5%, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 12.7%
- #44 Pandemic Train
72% matchMixed58% of 243 reviews2023
Dev: Trigger LabsPub: Games Operators
Windows
In Pandemic Train you are in charge of the crew aboard a train roaming the postapocalyptic wasteland, ravaged by both war and a deadly plague. Your goal is to survive long enough to discover the cure… or die trying. Humanity’s fate is in your hands! Start your journey now!
Why similar: Trains 43% ★, Survival 14.7%, Sandbox 12.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 9.3%
- #45 Stationeers
71% matchVery Positive88% of 9,014 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 83.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Automation 16%, Mining 15.8% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 12.4%
- #46 Camping Simulator: The Squad
70% matchMixed58% of 1,083 reviews2025
Dev: CubeCube Sports Ltd.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Camping Simulator lets you experience what camp means by preparing your backpack wisely for challenging conditions of nature. You can play all the experiences with up to 8 friends in multiplayer mode or single player mode.
Why similar: Sandbox 17.5%, Co-op 16.6%, Survival 15.9%, Building 14.8%, Crafting 11.2%
- #47 Away From Life
69% matchMixed69% of 157 reviews2026
Dev: Cursor GamesPub: IZilla Games
Windows
You survived a helicopter crash; going home is your top priority. Live as a castaway - survive the dangers of the islands by using your environment to find food, build shelter, craft tools to extend your stay, explore the secrets of the islands and their surrounding waters, and carve your way home.
Why similar: Building 15.4%, Sandbox 15.3%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 12.6%, Co-op 10%
- #48 MEAT TRAIN
69% matchVery Positive98% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: Kiwiforge
Windows
Meat Train is a FPS game where you operate a train thats uses MEAT for FUEL. Explore a wasteland where everything wants you dead, scavenge for weapons and loot. Upgrade the train and attempt to destroy an evil AI megafactory.
Why similar: Open World 32.7%, Exploration 26%, First-Person 18.3%, 3D 14.6%, Adventure 8.4%
- #49 OceanCraft
72% matchVery Positive85% of 60 reviews2021
Dev: FlodLabPub: FlodLab UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)
Windows
OceanCraft is a game about surviving alone - or with your friends on a self build vehicle in the ocean.
Why similar: Survival 37.7%, Co-op 21.1%, Mining 19.9% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Adventure 6.9%
- #50 Factorio
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 229,554 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 190.4 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 23.8%, Base Building 18.1%, Trains 13.4% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 7.3%
- #51 Eastern Era
68% matchMixed65% of 2,670 reviews2026
Dev: FunYoo Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
To escape from pursuit, as the leader of your sect, guide your disciples to rise again! Engage in farming and hunting, train in martial arts, and forge weapons and armor. Build your sect's base and fortifications from the ground up to survive in this perilous, ambition-filled martial world!
Why similar: Base Building 21.5%, Sandbox 20.4%, Building 17.5%, Survival 16.6%, Open World 13.7%
- #52 Start Over
68% matchMixed62% of 377 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?
Why similar: Base Building 16%, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 14.4%, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 10.1%
- #53 Train Life: A Railway Simulator
69% matchMixed63% of 1,651 reviews2022
Dev: SimteractPub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
For the first time in railroad simulation, play as both the driver and company director! Take the controls of your locomotives and grow your railway empire by negotiating deals and developing your network.
Why similar: Trains 67.3% ★, Open World 21.5%, Singleplayer 4%, Casual 3.8%, 3D 3.4%
- #54 Tracks - The Train Set Game
67% matchVery Positive94% of 1,518 reviews2019
Dev: Whoop GroupPub: Excalibur Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Jump into the ultimate toy sandbox and build the train set of your dreams! Create colourful railway systems, decorate beautiful towns, transport commuting passengers, and even ride your train in first-person.
Why similar: Trains 42.2% ★, Sandbox 18.3%, Building 17.8%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 6.5%
- #55 The Gold River Project
66% matchMixed66% of 568 reviews2026
Dev: Fairview Games Inc.
Windows
The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.
Why similar: Co-op 21.8%, Survival 20.2%, Open World 17.9%, Crafting 13.4%, Exploration 10.6%
- #56 Locomoto
65% matchVery Positive91% of 630 reviews2025
Dev: Green Tile Digital
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Customise and manage your train, tend to quirky passengers, gather resources, craft decorations, and upgrade your conductors style all accompanied by soft lo-fi tunes. Become a conductor and save your hometown Barrenpyre from environmental disaster!
Why similar: Trains 55.2% ★, Base Building 16%, Crafting 13.9%, Exploration 6.8%, Adventure 3.2%
- #57 Wild Omission
67% matchVery Positive89% of 63 reviews2023
Dev: Telephone Studios
Windows
Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Building 18.1%, Sandbox 17.1%, Survival 17.1%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 12.9%
- #58 Train Driver 2
66% matchMixed56% of 731 reviews2025
Dev: TTSK
Windows
Polish railway simulator emphasizing multiplayer and realism. Become a train driver, operating faithfully recreated trains, or a dispatcher, managing traffic and signalling equipment at your post. Cooperate online, build stations in the editor, and join railway enthusiasts!
Why similar: Trains 68.4% ★, Building 16.4%, Open World 7.8%, First-Person 3.8%, 3D 2.1%