Games Like Pathless Woods

Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!

Why similar: Building 19.5%, Sandbox 19.1%, Base Building 18.4%, Open World 17.7%, Survival 15.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deep survival and building experience set in a historical world that closely mirrors the ancient Chinese aesthetic of the seed game.

Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!

Why similar: City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 15.2%, Open World 13.1%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines survival, crafting, and village building within a beautiful historical Asian setting that feels very similar to the atmosphere of Pathless Woods.

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 30.2%, Crafting 16.9%, Building 16.1%, Sandbox 14.5%, Open World 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: A highly polished life-sim and crafting game that excels at the cozy building and community-focused gameplay found in the seed game.

The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.

Why similar: Farming Sim 29.6%, Crafting 15.7%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 11.9%, Agriculture 10.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: A cozy farming and community-building game that captures the same relaxing, nature-focused progression as Pathless Woods.

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: Crafting 25.3%, Open World 25%, Survival 18.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that blends crafting, farming, and exploration with a vibrant, anime-inspired aesthetic.

Embark on a magical journey in this captivating life simulation game. Escape to a welcoming valley, farm with spells, and master skills like fishing, crafting, and cooking. Engage in epic battles, strengthen the bonds with your companions, and build your dream home to achieve Immortal Life!

Why similar: Farming Sim 36.9%, Crafting 21.4%, Agriculture 16.1% ★, Building 11.7%, RPG 6%

Why You'll Like It: This farming and life-sim is heavily inspired by Chinese cultivation mythology, making it a perfect thematic match.

You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Open World 19.9%, Base Building 18.3%, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 15.2%, Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features an incredibly intuitive voxel-based building system paired with expansive open-world survival and exploration.

I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!

Why similar: Farming Sim 19.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Open World 9.7%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing survival and base-building game set on a rooftop that emphasizes cozy, low-stress progression.

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Open World 17.6%, Survival 17.2%, Crafting 16.6%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 15.1%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for open-world survival crafting, offering deep building mechanics and a rewarding sense of exploration.

Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

Why similar: Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 13.4%, City Builder 12.6%, Open World 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique perspective on survival and base-building, focusing on exploration and crafting in a massive, detailed world.

Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.

Why similar: Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 18.5%, Open World 15.8%, Sandbox 14.8%, Survival 14.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a complex survival and base-building experience with a strong emphasis on tribal management and open-world exploration.

Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!

Why similar: Sandbox 18%, Open World 16.7%, Building 15.4%, Survival 15.4%, Base Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival and crafting game that offers extensive sandbox freedom and exploration.

An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.

Why similar: Crafting 17%, Building 16.2%, Survival 15.1%, Open World 14.9%, Sandbox 14.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines farming, building, and dungeon crawling in a vibrant, open-world setting that encourages creative base design.

DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.

Why similar: Building 23%, Sandbox 22.2%, Crafting 17.9%, RPG 11.7%, Open World 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: An excellent block-based building game that emphasizes exploration and cozy, charming town-building.

Build your farm and relationships with townsfolk, or forge ahead on a quest of magic, monsters, and dragons. Level up through a skill tree in 8 person multiplayer, or adventure solo!

Why similar: Farming Sim 49.1%, Crafting 17.5%, Agriculture 13.4% ★, RPG 6.6%, Simulation 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A fantasy-themed farming sim that adds deep RPG elements and a cozy atmosphere to the traditional farming loop.

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Why similar: Open World 24.1%, Survival 19.5%, Crafting 16.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Integrates survival, crafting, and base-building with creature collection in a vast, open world.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Crafting 19.8%, Building 17%, Base Building 12.8%, Open World 12%, Survival 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on historical survival and village building, mirroring the progression style and resource management of the seed game.

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: Farming Sim 27.1%, Agriculture 17.5% ★, Crafting 14.9%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy survival and town-building game inspired by the Australian outback, perfect for players who enjoy relaxing exploration.

Cultivation Tales is an open world survival craft online game. You will experience collecting, crafting, hunting, fighting, building, researching, in a wild mythical world. Fight for your clan and yourself, from mortal to divinity!

Why similar: Sandbox 25.4%, Building 23%, Survival 19.9%, Open World 19.3%, RPG 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival and building game set in a cultivation-themed world that emphasizes action and resource management.

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: Farming Sim 17.3%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 11.4%, Open World 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on management and base-building within a Wuxia-inspired setting, appealing to fans of the seed game's cultural theme.

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 21.5%, Crafting 13.9%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 12.1%, Agriculture 11.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and farming with a cute, animal-focused aesthetic that matches the cozy vibe of Pathless Woods.

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: City Builder 19.6%, Farming Sim 16%, Crafting 12.3%, Sandbox 10%, Agriculture 9.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing life-sim and town-building game that prioritizes cozy, low-stakes progression.

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: Crafting 16.7%, Base Building 16.1%, Open World 15.7%, Sandbox 14.6%, Survival 14%

Why You'll Like It: An addictive top-down survival and crafting game that focuses on base expansion and uncovering secrets in a mysterious world.

Get ready to explore, farm, fish, mine, craft, and raise magical Lumas as you solve puzzles and embark on quests across Luma Island. Play solo, or team up with friends in 1-4 player online co-op. Choose relaxing Cozy, challenging Adventure, or epic Hero mode to match your mood and playstyle.

Why similar: Farming Sim 30.4%, Crafting 18.1%, Building 15.1%, Open World 12%, Simulation 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, exploration-heavy farming sim with online co-op that emphasizes shared adventures.

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: Base Building 15%, Farming Sim 14%, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features automation and base-building in a colorful, open-world environment that is both relaxing and rewarding.

A beautiful Life Sim Sandbox RPG with Cross-Platform Online COOP set on a tropical Archipelago. Build your farm, grow crops and animals, craft various items, cook dishes, gather resources, build shops and museum to attract visitors, and turn a desolate Island into a prosperous tourist destination!

Why similar: Farming Sim 26.3%, Crafting 16%, Sandbox 13.9%, Open World 13.8%, Agriculture 12.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: A tropical-themed farming and survival game that encourages exploration and community building.

Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

Why similar: City Builder 16.9%, Farming Sim 16.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 10.6%, Crafting 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim and building game that focuses on managing cute characters in a sandbox environment.

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Survival 26.3%, Crafting 18.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Open World 14.3%, Building 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and building mechanics centered around expanding your home base in an ever-changing open world.

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 35.9%, Crafting 12.1%, Agriculture 11.1% ★, Sandbox 10.5%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive farming and life-sim that provides the ultimate cozy experience for fans of the genre.

Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored. It's got sci-fi sim elements, deep dungeons, and you can even morph into alien form! Grab up to 7 friends to mine, craft, battle, and level—or farm and fish the day away, if that's more your tempo. There's so much to do!

Why similar: Farming Sim 20.2%, Crafting 14.9%, Sandbox 14.2%, Survival 12.3%, Building 12%

Restore the former glory of Border Town in an open-world sandbox RPG set in a fantastical realm. Explore the world, craft tools and weapons, cultivate fields, and socialise with your neighbours while dealing with dark forces that threaten to destroy everything you have built.

Why similar: Farming Sim 27.7%, Open World 15.2%, Sandbox 14.8%, Building 13.5%, Survival 11.8%

Yaoling: Mythical Journey is a creature collecting Eastern fantasy RPG featuring an world filled with rich stories and unique Yaolings. Tasked to uncover a mysterious evil, you embark on a journey with your Yaolings, forming new friendships, engage in intense battles, and face countless challenges!

Why similar: Open World 21%, Sandbox 19.3%, Crafting 19.3%, Cute 8.8%, Exploration 7.2%

Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!

Why similar: Farming Sim 27%, Crafting 15.8%, Open World 14.5%, Building 8.8%, Agriculture 8.1% ★

Plan, build, and unwind in medieval China. Lead villagers, fine-tune production, and craft iconic Chinese landmarks brick by brick. Roam passes, deserts, and river valleys; farm, cook, and decorate. Master new crafts, earn imperial favor, and turn smart design into lasting legacy.

Why similar: Farming Sim 18.1%, Crafting 13.6%, City Builder 12.3%, Building 10.3%, Open World 9%

Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.

Why similar: Crafting 18.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 13.8%, Sandbox 11.8%, Open World 11.2%

“Cowboy Life Simulator” is an immersive and relaxing ranching sim where you step into the boots of a failed businessman starting fresh on the frontier. Buy your first goat, meet the locals, explore vibrant lands, and build your dream ranch in a world full of stories and adventure!

Why similar: Farming Sim 20.4%, Crafting 12.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 10.7%

Island Paradise is a survival game where you build, upgrade, customize your own island and use nearby resources to create a home for generations to come!

Why similar: Farming Sim 17.5%, City Builder 14.7%, Crafting 14.1%, Open World 13.3%, Building 11%

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 13.6%, Survival 11.2%, Sandbox 9.5%

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: Farming Sim 19%, Crafting 17.1%, Survival 14.1%, Sandbox 9.5%, Base Building 9.4%

The Faraway Land is an open world survival simulator. Plunge into the relaxing atmosphere of a magical world filled with cute and dangerous creatures.

Why similar: Farming Sim 21.7%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 12.7%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 12.5%

Backwoods town is an atmospheric forest survival simulator. Build your base, grow crops, fight bosses and rebuild the destroyed settlement, finding all its inhabitants along the way.

Why similar: Farming Sim 31.7%, Building 17.5%, Survival 14.6%, Agriculture 13.8% ★, Sandbox 12.2%

A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?

Why similar: Farming Sim 29.4%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 10.1%, Agriculture 10% ★

Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.

Why similar: Farming Sim 17%, City Builder 14.4%, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.4%

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.

Why similar: Farming Sim 18.9%, Crafting 14.9%, Base Building 13%, Building 12.3%, Survival 12.1%

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 19.1%, Crafting 17.8%, Open World 15.6%, Building 15.3%, Sandbox 14.4%

Embark on an enchanting journey and brave ferocious creatures in an immersive medieval fantasy world. Will you settle a new homestead to live a life of farming and trade, or pick up the sword and take up the adventurers' path?

Why similar: Farming Sim 30.8%, Crafting 16.6%, Sandbox 16.2%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 10.4%

Unleash your inner gardener and immerse yourself in the serene world of Garden Buddies, cultivating a vibrant flower garden alongside your new friend Mutsy. Discover an enchanting and fulfilling experience to release your stress.

Why similar: Farming Sim 26.9%, Crafting 14.1%, Sandbox 12.1%, Agriculture 11.8% ★, Building 11.2%

Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.

Why similar: Crafting 18.5%, Building 15.2%, Survival 14.6%, Sandbox 12%, Open World 11.9%

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: City Builder 27.6%, Building 15.1%, Survival 12.9%, Sandbox 10.4%, Base Building 8.9%

Embark on a cozy open-world adventure filled with vast landscape, mystical puzzles and unexpected platforming challenges. Dress up not just for style, but to unravel hidden mysteries, interact with a vibrant environment, and experience the freedom to explore at your own pace.

Why similar: Farming Sim 22%, Open World 14.8%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 9.9%

The Matchless Kungfu is an open world sandbox RPG game based on a WuXia background. You can play any martial arts role you imagine in this wild world. Travel through the great wilderness, or be the leader of the group. The most important thing is, build your own story and live the experience!

Why similar: Open World 16.3%, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 15.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 12.9%

Piworld is a unique multiplayer game where everyone can find something to do to suit their desires. Try out different roles: from a simple fisherman to an adventurer. Explore the world alone or with friends, fight evil, develop your skills, and create your own story.

Why similar: Farming Sim 21.6%, Crafting 14%, Base Building 13.6%, Open World 11.9%, Sandbox 11.7%

Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Open World 17.7%, Survival 17.3%, Crafting 16.8%, Building 11.6%

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: Base Building 16%, Open World 15.7%, Sandbox 14.9%, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 12.8%

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: Building 19.3%, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 11.6%

Totemlands is a relaxing crafting, building game where you raise totem poles, hunt spirits, decorate and explore the lands.

Why similar: Farming Sim 15.8%, Crafting 14.7%, Building 13.8%, Open World 13.4%, Sandbox 12.2%

Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.

Why similar: Crafting 14.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 13%, Open World 12.1%, Building 11.8%

A new life awaits in Honeywood! Build a thriving community that will last generations in this cozy farm simulator. Farm, socialize, make friends, cook, craft, forage and uncover the secrets of the island! If someone doesn’t want to be friends? There are always other means.

Why similar: Farming Sim 36.1%, Crafting 19.5%, Open World 18.7%, Simulation 7.6%, Exploration 6.8%

Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.

Why similar: Farming Sim 23.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 11.7%, Building 11.3%