Games Like Polylithic

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: Colony Sim 14.4%, Automation 14.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 9.7%

Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.

Why similar: Base Building 17%, Crafting 16.4%, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 14%, Open World 13.7%

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: Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 16.8%, Open World 14.8%, Survival 13.7%, Sandbox 13.6%

Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 12.8%, Resource Management 10.1%, Sandbox 9.6%

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, Base Building 18.9%, Crafting 14.2%, Sandbox 13.3%, Alternate History 12.9%

Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, Base Building 17.7%, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 11.3%, Sandbox 9.5%

Plentiful is a nature sandbox. You shape the land and everything responds—water, plants, animals, and your people. Learn how this world works. Your tribe’s survival depends on it.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4%, Sandbox 20.8%, Nature 13.9%, Open World 9.6%, Colorful 5.6%

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: Base Building 17.2%, Open World 16%, Survival 15.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, Crafting 11.2%

It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, Base Building 18.7%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 11.5%, Third Person 10.3%

Survive in a living post-apocalyptic city. Scavenge, craft, and build to stay alive, while earning trust or sparking conflict with the NPCs and factions who shape your fate.

Why similar: Alternate History 18.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 15.3%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 13%

Science-driven exploration adventure on prehistoric Earth with a relaxing vibe. Farming, crafting, puzzle-solving, and exploration on Prehistoric Earth, where you arrive as an alien botanist who is very good at plant research, but... can't breathe oxygen.

Why similar: Alternate History 24.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Nature 12.8%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 11.2%

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Base Building 26.5%, Colony Sim 23.4%, Survival 18.8%, Crafting 14.6%, Resource Management 7.4%

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: Colony Sim 28.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Crafting 16.9%, Survival 14.8%, Open World 12.8%

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: Automation 18.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 14.1%, Sandbox 12.2%, Survival 11.6%

An online multiplayer game of crafting, survival, civilization building, and player collaboration. Start in the stone age and live, build, and invent your way to higher civilization. Live and die as well as you can, to gain the experience you need to achieve even more in your next life!

Why similar: Crafting 22.5%, Base Building 21.8%, Survival 18.2%, Sandbox 16.7%, Open World 16.1%

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: Colony Sim 36.5%, Survival 17%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 12.3%, Resource Management 9.2%

Stone Rage is a prehistoric, open-world survival game. Play as a Cro-Magnon or Neanderthal and shape-shift into beasts as you secure your place in a harsh landscape of dangerous animals, scarce resources, and unforgiving climates. Make friends and enemies. Build. Fight. Survive.

Why similar: Survival 22.3%, Open World 21.4%, Sandbox 20%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.3%

Inspired by an existing indigenous tribe, where they live on an island called "North Sentinel Island". Native Hunter gives the player the possibility of living the experience in the body of an indigenous person completely isolated from society, just like the Sentinelese do.

Why similar: Base Building 33.5%, Survival 25.4%, Sandbox 22.4%, Exploration 10.9%, Adventure 6.7%

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: Colony Sim 52.2%, Survival 19.9%, Sandbox 9.4%, Open World 6.9%, Strategy 6%

Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.7%, Sandbox 15.1%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 9.2%

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Automation 23%, Base Building 21.2%, Crafting 13.3%, Open World 11.8%, Resource Management 9.2%

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 18.7%, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 12.3%, Colony Sim 12.2%, Sandbox 9.6%

Multicellular will take you back in time, to the dawn of life. Build your multicellular organism and combat hunger, the environment, darkness and other organisms. Everything in this new world can kill you, will you be able to survive?

Why similar: Survival 23.8%, Sandbox 20.5%, Nature 15.2%, Resource Management 14.4%, Exploration 11.2%

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: Base Building 21.8%, Third Person 18.2%, Crafting 17.7%, Survival 15.2%, Nature 10.8%

An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, Base Building 21.6%, Sandbox 8.9%, Open World 8.6%, Survival 8.3%

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 18.4%, Automation 15.8%, Crafting 13%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 10.8%

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: Base Building 18.2%, Survival 14.7%, Crafting 14%, Open World 12.5%, Automation 9.9%

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: Colony Sim 17.6%, Automation 17.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 10.6%

Survive your evolution in Neogene Africa starting 10 million years ago. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a third-person open world survival game where you Explore, Expand, and Evolve to advance your clan to the next generation in the exciting new adventure from Panache Digital Games.

Why similar: Survival 20.9%, Open World 20.8%, Crafting 18.9%, Third Person 10.7%, Exploration 10.3%

Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.

Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 16.2%, Survival 15.4%, Open World 15.2%

While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!

Why similar: Base Building 18.5%, Crafting 18.2%, Survival 17.5%, Open World 17%, Sandbox 9%

Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, Automation 16.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 10.8%

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 19.3%, Crafting 14.9%, Automation 14.1%, Sandbox 12.7%, Open World 12.4%

Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.

Why similar: Base Building 23.4%, Crafting 18.6%, Survival 18%, Open World 13.3%, Sandbox 13.2%

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Automation 19%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 11.4%

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: Colony Sim 20.6%, Automation 18.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Resource Management 9.5%

Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 14.1%, Automation 11.8%, Sandbox 10%

You have crash-landed into a mini-verse of tiny planets. Welcome to Minicology! Embark on an interstellar survival sandbox journey. Use your crafting, combat, and automation skills to survive the many challenges this mini-verse throws at you.

Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 14%, Sandbox 12.2%, Survival 12.1%

DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.

Why similar: Base Building 28.2%, Crafting 25.1%, Survival 23.8%, Sandbox 20.5%, Singleplayer 2.4%

A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Automation 13.3%, Survival 10.4%, Sandbox 10.3%

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: Automation 18.1%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 10.8%

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.8%, Sandbox 16%, Survival 14.4%, Crafting 10%, Open World 6.6%

Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.

Why similar: Base Building 18.3%, Crafting 15.6%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 14.5%, Resource Management 12%

KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.

Why similar: Base Building 21.2%, Crafting 18.2%, Survival 17.2%, Open World 16.8%, Sandbox 14.4%

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 22.2%, Crafting 18.6%, Survival 16.3%, Sandbox 14.8%, Open World 10.9%

Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

Why similar: Crafting 23.9%, Survival 20.3%, Open World 15.2%, Sandbox 15%, Base Building 9.3%

Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!

Why similar: Base Building 37.8%, Sandbox 25.4%, Open World 10%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 7.5%

TIME TRAVEL through history to BECOME GOD 🚀 Ride dinosaurs, forge tools, sail dunes, build a colony, siege castles, automate and fly, mine underground, launch to the moon, build a dyson sphere! An insane, unforgettable and revolutionary survival crafting base building open world adventure.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2%, Automation 16.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 11.3%

Mesorift Survival is a classic survival game with PvP and PvE elements, set in a tropical open world with three islands. Gather resources, build a base, craft weapons, and survive.

Why similar: Base Building 24.8%, Open World 22.7%, Survival 22%, Third Person 14.5%, Exploration 10.1%

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: Crafting 18%, Automation 16.2%, Open World 15.9%, Survival 14.7%, Sandbox 11.7%

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 19.1%, Base Building 18.5%, Crafting 13.7%, Open World 12.3%, Sandbox 10.5%

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Why similar: Survival 25.7%, Crafting 23.6%, Open World 18.3%, Base Building 18.2%, Sandbox 10.1%

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: Colony Sim 49%, Resource Management 14.1%, Survival 12%, Open World 7.6%, Crafting 5.2%

Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9%, Survival 20%, Base Building 18.7%, Sandbox 13.7%, Resource Management 13.6%

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: Base Building 19.1%, Survival 19.1%, Open World 18.5%, Crafting 17.9%, Sandbox 15.4%

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 20.9%, Survival 19.9%, Open World 19.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Exploration 10.6%

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8%, Base Building 19.1%, Survival 14.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Open World 9.1%

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: Automation 21.8%, Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 14.8%, Survival 12.5%, Resource Management 11.5%

Nuclear Epoch: Open-world survival mixing base building & extraction shooting. Explore with friends, raid dangerous instances for loot, but death means losing everything. Craft weapons with fully customizable stats in this post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Why similar: Base Building 26.8%, Crafting 20.5%, Open World 19.6%, Survival 16.5%, Sandbox 12.5%