Games Like Polylithic

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 29.9%, Base Building 18.7%, Open World 12.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Third Person 10.4%

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 16.3%, Survival 14.6%, Sandbox 13.9%, Open World 13.8%

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 13.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 9.8%

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 16.7%, Open World 15%, Survival 13.8%, Sandbox 13.6%

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 16.3%, Survival 15.8%, Sandbox 11.5%, Crafting 11.1%

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 21%, Open World 21%, Crafting 18.7%, Third Person 10.7%, Exploration 10.2%

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 33.4%, Survival 25.5%, Sandbox 22.3%, Exploration 10.9%, Adventure 6.8%

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: Base Building 17.6%, Alternate History 17%, Crafting 15.5%, Survival 13.5%, Open World 13.5%

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 18.5%, Automation 15.4%, Crafting 13%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 11%

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 26.4%, Colony Sim 23.5%, Survival 18.9%, Crafting 14.6%, Resource Management 7.2%

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 14.1%, Nature 12.8%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 11.1%

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

Why similar: Crafting 23.8%, Survival 20.4%, Open World 15.4%, Sandbox 14.9%, Base Building 9.2%

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 22.4%, Base Building 21.8%, Survival 18.3%, Sandbox 16.6%, Open World 16.3%

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 18.3%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 12.4%, Colony Sim 12.2%, Open World 9.8%

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 18.3%, Crafting 17.6%, Survival 15.3%, Nature 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 14.8%, Crafting 14%, Open World 12.8%, Sandbox 9.8%

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 29.2%, Base Building 17.6%, Crafting 13%, Survival 11.4%, Sandbox 9.5%

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 28.6%, Base Building 18.9%, Crafting 14.2%, Sandbox 13.3%, Alternate History 13%

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%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 14.1%, Sandbox 12.2%, Survival 11.7%

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 22.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 12.9%, Resource Management 9.8%, Sandbox 9.6%

Survive on a deserted island with no modern tools or electricity. Gather resources, craft everything you need, and adapt to changing seasons including winter conditions. No zombies, no supernatural. Man vs nature survival. Your adventure, your choice.

Why similar: Crafting 21.3%, Survival 19.2%, Open World 18.6%, Sandbox 17%, Nature 11.2%

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 24%, Sandbox 20.5%, Nature 15.2%, Resource Management 14%, Exploration 11.3%

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 37.7%, Sandbox 25.4%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 7.5%

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 21%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 14.2%, Automation 11.5%, Sandbox 10.1%

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 16.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 11.5%

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 36.6%, Survival 17.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 12.3%, Resource Management 8.9%

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 22.6%, Base Building 21.4%, Crafting 13.4%, Open World 12.1%, Resource Management 9%

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 18.4%, Crafting 18.1%, Survival 17.6%, Open World 17.2%, Sandbox 9%

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 31%, Sandbox 26.4%, Nature 19.3%, Strategy 7%, Open World 6.5%

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 19.6%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 14%, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 12.2%

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%, Survival 20.1%, Sandbox 9.3%, Open World 7%, Strategy 5.9%

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 17.5%, Automation 17.2%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 10.7%

Survive in the wild nature by playing as an animal or as a human. Play as an animal and survive by your own or build a herd to stay protected. Have babies and protect them from predators. Play as a human and craft items, build a house, customize your character and more.

Why similar: Survival 20%, Base Building 19.8%, Crafting 17.5%, Open World 14.1%, Third Person 12%

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 22.1%, Crafting 18.5%, Survival 16.4%, Sandbox 14.8%, Open World 11%

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 23.3%, Open World 18.4%, Base Building 18%, Sandbox 10%

Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.

Why similar: Base Building 19.4%, Crafting 18.4%, Survival 16.6%, Open World 15.1%, Sandbox 12.8%

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 12.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 9%

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 20.8%, Automation 17.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 9.5%

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 21.1%, Crafting 18.1%, Survival 17.2%, Open World 17%, Sandbox 14.3%

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 19.1%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 16.2%, Survival 15.6%, Open World 15.5%

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 28.1%, Crafting 25.1%, Survival 23.9%, Sandbox 20.5%, Singleplayer 2.4%

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 20.8%, Survival 19.9%, Open World 19.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Exploration 10.6%

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 14.8%, Open World 14.7%, Resource Management 11.6%

Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends

Why similar: Automation 18.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 11%, Sandbox 8.8%

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 23.3%, Crafting 18.5%, Survival 18.1%, Open World 13.5%, 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 18.5%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 11.6%

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: Crafting 15.7%, Open World 15.5%, Sandbox 14.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Automation 14.4%

Craft your own tools and manage your resources in this tranquil survival adventure. Charming naturescapes and original music frame your quest to conquer the mountain as you endeavor to make the most of your “one wild and precious" life.

Why similar: Crafting 23.9%, Survival 23.7%, Nature 16.2%, Open World 12.1%, Exploration 9.4%

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 13.7%, Sandbox 12.7%, Open World 12.6%

Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!

Why similar: Crafting 25.7%, Open World 25.4%, Survival 23.2%, Sandbox 20.8%, Adventure 1.8%

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 27.1%, Base Building 20.6%, Survival 17.1%, Open World 16.4%, Sandbox 14.3%

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 8.8%, Survival 8.4%

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 20.3%, Open World 19.8%, Survival 16.5%, Sandbox 12.5%

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: Crafting 22%, Open World 19.8%, Survival 19.1%, Sandbox 18.1%, Combat 7.8%

As primitive human, in the wild Ice Age prehistoric world, Hunt and tame wild beasts such as mammoths and sabretooth, build homes, and survive.

Why similar: Base Building 30.8%, Survival 20.3%, Open World 15.5%, Sandbox 9.4%, Resource Management 9.3%

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 21.6%, Sandbox 19.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.2%

Colonize Prologue is a combination of survival game and building strategy that takes place during the colonization period - the 17th century. It tells the story of a settlement in the new world and all the difficulties encountered by the early settlers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.3%, Sandbox 21.2%, Survival 19.1%, Open World 8.8%, Strategy 5.3%

Grandiose is a calming and creative base builder game full of botany, building and strategy. Land on the island that will become your domain in a universe soon to be borrowed from the ingenious and creative abilities of your mind.

Why similar: Base Building 20.9%, Survival 18.8%, Crafting 17.4%, Resource Management 13.1%, Open World 9.2%

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: Base Building 16.9%, Automation 16.4%, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 11.4%