- #1 Habitat
96% matchMostly Negative40% of 261 reviews2016
Dev: 4gencyPub: Versus Evil
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Habitat is a physics-based space game where you build, fly, and fight with whatever you can find out in space. Upgrade and arm your creations with weapons and structures you find in orbit, fly and explore using rocket physics.Battle deadly enemies in Campaign Mode to save humanity or explore Sandbox Mode for true creative control.
Why similar: Sandbox 61.6%, Indie 25.7%, Adventure 12.8%
- #2 Scrap Mechanic
93% matchVery Positive92% of 117,933 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.5 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: Sandbox 73.5%, Adventure 16.1%, Indie 10.4%
- #3 LIFE EFFECT Survival
92% matchVery Positive88% of 486 reviews2026
Dev: LIFE EFFECTPub: EFFECT STUDIO
Windows
Survive in a harsh and dangerous world after an alien invasion. Gather resources, craft equipment, fight mutants and massive monsters, use weapons, vehicles and robots, explore territories, defend strongholds and fight for survival.
Why similar: Sandbox 72%, Adventure 28%
- #4 GRAV
94% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Sandbox 56.7%, RPG 23.5%, Adventure 14.3%, Indie 5.5%
- #5 Plasma
91% matchVery Positive90% of 1,119 reviews2023
Dev: Dry CactusPub: Dry Licorice
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Sandbox 100%
- #6 Goliath
91% matchMixed67% of 279 reviews2016
Dev: Whalebox StudioPub: Octopus Tree
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Welcome to a mysterious world filled with strange creatures, giant monsters and warring factions. You won't last long here on your own. Fortunately, you know how to build giant robots! Find the plans, gather the resources, climb inside your giant robotic creation and start punching monsters in the face!
Why similar: RPG 55.5%, Adventure 25.1%, Indie 19.4%
- #7 Phoning Home
90% matchMixed69% of 1,075 reviews2017
Dev: ION LANDS
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A tale of survival about two shipwrecked robots - ION and ANI - on their life-defining journey in this unique genre-mix of exploration, puzzle and survival.
Why similar: Adventure 63.2%, Indie 36.8%
- #8 Satisfactory
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 274,659 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.8 hrsMean: 111.2 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: Sandbox 75.7%, Adventure 17.3%, Indie 7%
- #9 Penkura
89% matchVery Positive90% of 199 reviews2018
Dev: LionsArt
Windows
Penkura is a sci-fi base-building survival game where you construct a colony from a top-down command system, explore an alien world in first person, and use programmable bots to gather resources, build, repair, and keep your base alive.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #10 Scavenger SV-4
88% matchVery Positive91% of 626 reviews2018
Dev: Deric RuhlPub: HoroArch
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Scavenger SV-4 is a highly replayable atmospheric first-person science fiction game. Part simulator, part roguelike, it has elements of action, combat, resource management, and a dash of horror. It is not quite like any game you have played before.
Why similar: Adventure 57.2%, Indie 42.8%
- #11 Escape Machines
87% matchMixed41% of 690 reviews2015
Dev: Mint Age StudiosPub: Back To Basics Gaming
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Escape Machines is an addictive Science Fiction single/multi-player/co-op adventure shooter in the near future! Artificial intellect and robots fight against their creators. You must take control of the robots and save people.
Why similar: RPG 52.4%, Adventure 25.8%, Indie 21.7%
- #12 PHANTOM GALAXIES™
85% matchMostly Negative40% of 740 reviews2023
Dev: Blowfish Studios
Windows
PHANTOM GALAXIES™ is an epic sci-fi adventure with thrilling mecha combat. Choose between four distinct Starfighter classes and diverse weapons and gear. Once enemies, the intergalactic empires of humanity band together to battle lawless pirate factions amid war torn space!
Why similar: RPG 52.8%, Adventure 33.8%, Indie 13.4%
- #13 GearStorm - Armored Survival
86% matchMixed56% of 82 reviews2019
Dev: Iron City Games
Windows · Mac
GearStorm - Armored Survival is a story-driven, open-world sci-fi survival adventure. Discover what led to the Phage, a deadly virus apocalypse and our escape to a alien world. Explore a vast alien planet, build your base, create your colony, acquire vehicles, weapons, and supplies to defend it.
Why similar: RPG 54.9%, Adventure 25.5%, Indie 19.6%
- #14 Planet Explorers
84% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Sandbox 55.8%, RPG 25.7%, Adventure 13%, Indie 5.5%
- #15 Orion Sandbox Enhanced
83% matchVery Positive94% of 1,179 reviews2018
Dev: y8.com
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
This is a 2D crafting survival sandbox game. You will be able to explore a huge 2D side-view world, building houses, crafting tools, weapons and armour from the resources you collect. There is a day/night cycle and each night many dangerous monsters can be found and defeated.
Why similar: Sandbox 36.4%, RPG 32.8%, Adventure 18.2%, Indie 12.6%
- #16 Mechanic Miner
84% matchMixed58% of 210 reviews2020
Dev: Hello John
Windows
Put your mechanical skills to the test in a physics-based sandbox where ingenuity and creativity are the ultimate key to survival. Construct fantastical machines, gather resources, acquire new technologies to battle dangerous enemies and use your imagination to shape your world.
Why similar: Sandbox 49.8%, RPG 21.2%, Indie 14.7%, Adventure 14.2%
- #17 Elsewhere
81% matchVery Positive96% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.
Why similar: Sandbox 74.7%, Adventure 25.3%
- #18 Automaton Heart
80% matchVery Positive97% of 79 reviews2026
Dev: Luke Vincent
Windows · Linux
Automaton Heart is an RPG with platforming elements where you visit obscure and interesting places while upgrading your organs and strategizing about which items to bring along.
Why similar: RPG 66.1%, Adventure 33.9%
- #19 Polylithic
81% matchMixed68% of 175 reviews2023
Dev: polyperfectPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history: the Stone Age. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go at it alone in a world where we're not yet apex predators.
Why similar: Sandbox 61.6%, Adventure 23.4%, Indie 15%
- #20 Cybermotion
82% matchMostly Positive80% of 90 reviews2017
Dev: Lukayson
Windows
Cybermotion is physics based platformer. You play as a student project robot that's constantly beeing tested by its creators. Combine physics animations and poses to move through the levels full of obstacles. Upgrade the robot, build new levels.
Why similar: Sandbox 74%, Indie 26%
- #21 RoboCo
78% matchVery Positive88% of 211 reviews2026
Dev: Filament Games
Windows
RoboCo is a sandbox game about designing and building robots to serve the needs of squishy, hapless humans in the world of tomorrow!
Why similar: Sandbox 80.6%, Indie 19.4%
- #22 Pixelum
79% matchMixed48% of 72 reviews2025
Dev: ZXC Games
Windows
Pixelum is a whole world made up entirely from interactive pixels. Explore procedurally generated sandbox with advanced physics. Dig and mine, fight mobs, build bases, craft items, and progress throughout the pixel canvas!
Why similar: RPG 40.1%, Sandbox 27.6%, Adventure 19.1%, Indie 13.2%
- #23 Primitier
77% matchVery Positive94% of 319 reviews2025
Dev: Ota Mato
Windows
Primitier is a highly flexible VR sandbox game, where you can create tools and machinery by freely cutting and connecting objects in a vast world based on physics simulation.
Why similar: Sandbox 75.2%, Adventure 13.3%, Indie 11.5%
- #24 Exile to Death
78% matchMixed67% of 349 reviews2018
Dev: Aleksei MilchakovPub: Manifestors Games Studio
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Explore the world , collect resources , craft items , build a fortified house and kill other players to survive. BUT don't forget about cyborgs...
Why similar: RPG 53%, Indie 23.7%, Adventure 23.3%
- #25 MyRobot
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 138 reviews2026
Dev: sgthale
Windows
MyRobot is a robot sandbox game with optional AI features!
Why similar: RPG 62.3%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 3.4%
- #26 Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,154 reviews2020
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.
Why similar: Sandbox 61.4%, Adventure 38.6%
- #27 Mechanica
76% matchMixed63% of 639 reviews2020
Dev: Deimos Interactive
Windows
Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming. Create your own bases, defenses, manufacturing systems and more. Explore the map and expand the scope and complexity of your creations.
Why similar: Sandbox 71.1%, Indie 28.9%
- #28 StarRupture
71% matchVery Positive81% of 12,866 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 24.2 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: Sandbox 72.5%, Adventure 27.5%
- #29 Wrath of Anna
77% matchMostly Negative35% of 249 reviews2018
Dev: Lorenzo Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
You've been stranded on Empress Anna's remote planet of Drumgore during the Cross-Planetary War of 2021. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Sandbox 41%, Indie 33.8%, Adventure 25.3%
- #30 Phantom Trigger
76% matchMixed58% of 95 reviews2017
Dev: Bread TeamPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Phantom Trigger is a vivid hardcore slasher with elements of an RPG and a roguelike. Your world is made up of sick fantasies, you are a phantom. Accept it or stop your treatment.
Why similar: Adventure 57.8%, Indie 42.2%
- #31 ACTION SANDBOX
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,008 reviews2022
Dev: Vona Soft
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 64%
A physics sandbox game for people who like to play with digital toys. Create, control toys and define your goals.
Why similar: Sandbox 100%
- #32 Infinite Gravity
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 52 reviews2018
Dev: Gravity Wave Interactive
Windows
This is a build sandbox game We have hundreds of elements for your choice We offer a variety of materials in building their ideal architectural works for you We will also open survival mode in the future
Why similar: Sandbox 45.6%, RPG 28.4%, Adventure 15%, Indie 11%
- #33 Sipho
71% matchVery Positive85% of 357 reviews2023
Dev: All Parts Connected
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sipho is an action survival game with an intricate building system. Grow your own creature and take over the local ecosystem. Fight, grow, survive, dominate. Play in adventure or sandbox mode.
Why similar: Sandbox 75.5%, Indie 24.5%
- #34 TerraTech
71% matchVery Positive91% of 24,767 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 32.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Why similar: Sandbox 75.2%, Adventure 16.1%, Indie 8.8%
- #35 Relic Odyssey : Ruins Of Xantao
70% matchVery Positive96% of 114 reviews2024
Dev: Honour Bound Game Studios Inc.
Windows
Fight off disgusting beasts and enemies, drill for resources, search for ancient relics, craft technology and upgrades, and use a glove with special abilities in an adventure packed with action!
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #36 The Fifth Day
74% matchMostly Negative37% of 941 reviews2014
Dev: Touz
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
The Fifth Day is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in the time after mankind's extinction to the machines that it created. Your role, as one of these machines, is to survive in the hostile world left behind by man.
Why similar: Sandbox 62%, Adventure 25.8%, Indie 12.3%
- #37 Signs of Life
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 841 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
Why similar: Sandbox 48.6%, RPG 26.5%, Adventure 15.8%, Indie 9.1%
- #38 Skyformer
69% matchVery Positive84% of 70 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: Adventure 100%
- #39 Archean
69% matchVery Positive88% of 243 reviews2024
Dev: batcholi
Windows · Linux
Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.
Why similar: Sandbox 100%
- #40 Omega Crafter
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 570 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Sandbox 36%, RPG 35.3%, Adventure 17.7%, Indie 11%
- #41 Cogmind
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,977 reviews2017
Dev: Grid Sage Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 40.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Cogmind is a sci-fi roguelike epic in which you play a robot building yourself from components found or salvaged from other robots. Explore a living, breathing world through turn-based tactical combat, or sneak, hack, and fly your way to victory.
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #42 Fragmented
72% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Sandbox 50.8%, RPG 36.6%, Indie 12.6%
- #43 PixPhys
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 215 reviews2021
Dev: Red Starship
Windows · Linux
PixPhys is a 2D engineering sandbox with huge technical possibilities and scope for imagination: design equipment from a jet-powered cart to space stations.
Why similar: Sandbox 84.3%, Indie 15.7%
- #44 Project Cobalt
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: OxygenStudio
Windows
⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.
Why similar: Sandbox 76.5%, Adventure 23.5%
- #45 Human Host
66% matchVery Positive83% of 429 reviews2026
Dev: Virtual Matrix Studio
Windows
Human Host is an open-world zombie survival crafting game. In this endless procedurally generated world, terrain, buildings, trees, rocks—everything is destructible! Build massive mobile bases, dig deep underground, construct trap-filled fortresses, scavenge supplies, and survive as long as you can!
Why similar: Sandbox 49.6%, RPG 34.6%, Adventure 15.8%
- #46 Heat Death: Survival Train
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 696 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: Sandbox 65.9%, Adventure 34.1%
- #47 Phantom Project
67% matchVery Positive83% of 235 reviews2021
Dev: Astravelari LLC
Windows
Phantom Project is a psychological horror game that encourages you to put your deerstalker on and unravel the supernatural mysteries around you. This game is a prototype and is subject to major changes and improvements.
Why similar: Adventure 60.4%, Indie 39.6%
- #48 Beyond Contact
66% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,127 reviews2023
Dev: Playcorp StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A fiercely formidable sci-fi survival game, set on a hostile alien world that wants you dead! Alone, or with a crew, do you have what it takes to survive?
Why similar: Adventure 61.6%, Indie 38.4%
- #49 Phantom Jump
68% matchVery Positive88% of 64 reviews2017
Dev: Phantom Pine Studios
Windows
Phantom Jump is a skill based platformer with rhythm mechanics, built to turn you into a speedrunner.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #50 Trials of Ascension: Exile
69% matchMixed49% of 61 reviews2018
Dev: Dragonfire Entertainment
Windows
Trials of Ascension: Exile is a hardcore sandbox fantasy game where you will play as a human mastering your skills, evolve for the hunt as a Raknar, or defy all odds to grow as a powerful dragon!
Why similar: RPG 56.8%, Adventure 26.5%, Sandbox 13.4%, Indie 3.2%
- #51 XenoHaven
63% matchVery Positive86% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Sandbox 48.2%, RPG 28.9%, Adventure 16.4%, Indie 6.5%