- #1 Re.poly
97% matchVery Positive91% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
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 17.1%, Crafting 16.5%, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 13.5%
- #2 Sapiens
96% matchVery Positive83% of 2,133 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 29.4%, Base Building 17.7%, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 11.3%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #3 Primitive Society Simulator
96% matchVery Positive83% of 744 reviews2024
Dev: YSH BigDovePub: YSH Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 18.8%, Crafting 14.1%, Sandbox 13.3%, Alternate History 12.7%
- #4 Pathless Woods
95% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,107 reviews2024
Dev: AniYa Games Studio
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 14.6%, Sandbox 13.7%, Survival 13.6%
- #5 Humanica
94% matchVery Positive94% of 160 reviews2026
Dev: PanfachDev
Windows
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 23.8%, Base Building 16.4%, Survival 13.5%, Resource Management 11.1%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #6 ASTRONEER
94% matchVery Positive92% of 138,295 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 15.8%, Survival 15.6%, Sandbox 11.5%, Crafting 11.2%
- #7 Elsewhere
93% matchVery Positive96% of 74 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: Automation 18.9%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 14%, Sandbox 12.1%, Survival 11.5%
- #8 Plentiful
91% matchVery Positive98% of 53 reviews2026
Dev: GabberGamesPub: Learnia Inc
Windows
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 43.5%, Sandbox 24.2%, Open World 11%, Colorful 6.5%, Stylized 5.6%
- #9 TFM: The First Men
92% matchMixed61% of 410 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
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 33.4%, Base Building 21.5%, Sandbox 8.9%, Open World 8.5%, Survival 8.2%
- #10 City 20
90% matchMostly Positive72% of 192 reviews2024
Dev: Untold Games
Windows
Survive in a living post-apocalyptic city. Build trust or spark conflict with NPCs and factions, uncover mysteries, and watch the world change with your every choice.
Why similar: Base Building 17.2%, Crafting 15.8%, Alternate History 15.2%, Survival 13.5%, Open World 13.2%
- #11 ASTROBOTANICA
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 91 reviews2026
Dev: Space Goblin Studio
Windows
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 27.7%, Base Building 16.3%, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 12.9%, Open World 12.3%
- #12 Stone Rage
91% matchMixed49% of 167 reviews2020
Dev: Mountainwheel Games
Windows
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 21.2%, Sandbox 20.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.4%
- #13 Stranded: Alien Dawn
88% matchVery Positive84% of 11,085 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 26.1%, Colony Sim 23.4%, Survival 18.7%, Crafting 14.6%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #14 Dawn of Man
89% matchVery Positive87% of 17,748 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 19.8%, Sandbox 9.4%, Open World 6.8%, Strategy 6%
- #15 Surviving Ceres
87% matchVery Positive87% of 138 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
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 28.2%, Base Building 17.3%, Crafting 16.9%, Survival 14.8%, Open World 12.6%
- #16 Soulmask
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 21,804 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 68.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 16.5%, Automation 15%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 9.6%
- #17 In Next Life
86% matchMixed66% of 137 reviews2026
Dev: Dual DecadePub: Wereviz AB
Windows · Mac
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 22.6%, Base Building 21.9%, Survival 18.2%, Sandbox 16.8%, Open World 15.9%
- #18 Satisfactory
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 273,405 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.9 hrsMean: 110.9 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 23.5%, Base Building 20.9%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 11.6%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #19 StarRupture
84% matchVery Positive81% of 12,717 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 23.8 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 17.9%, Colony Sim 17.6%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 10.5%
- #20 Settlement Survival
85% matchVery Positive86% of 7,950 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 34.6%, Survival 15.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Sandbox 12%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #21 Ecopunk
83% matchVery Positive85% of 127 reviews2025
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
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 37.5%, Sandbox 15.7%, Survival 12.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #22 Astrometica
82% matchVery Positive83% of 3,114 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 20.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 16.1%, Survival 15.2%, Open World 14.9%
- #23 Eden Crafters
79% matchVery Positive86% of 2,494 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 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 19.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 12.3%, Colony Sim 12.2%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #24 TerraTech Worlds
81% matchMixed63% of 2,250 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 19.2%, Crafting 14.9%, Automation 14.6%, Sandbox 12.6%, Survival 12.3%
- #25 ASKA
78% matchMostly Positive80% of 11,841 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 28.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 21.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Automation 13.6%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #26 Native Hunter
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: A.P.S
Windows
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 33.6%, Survival 25.3%, Sandbox 22.5%, Exploration 10.8%, Adventure 6.6%
- #27 Multicellular
82% matchMixed64% of 55 reviews2018
Dev: Insane Dreamers
Windows
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 27.8%, Sandbox 24.1%, Resource Management 17.5%, Exploration 13.1%, Colorful 8%
- #28 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,685 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 18.1%, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 14%, Open World 12.3%, Automation 10.3%
- #29 The Last Caretaker
76% matchVery Positive86% of 11,569 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.1 hrsMean: 33.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 19.5%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 11.1%
- #30 Common'hood
80% matchMixed52% of 339 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
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 13.9%, Automation 12.1%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #31 Vilset
81% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
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 24.2%, Automation 16.6%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 10.7%
- #32 Stonehearth
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,032 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 46%, Sandbox 16%, Survival 14.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 6.5%
- #33 Under A New Sun
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 388 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
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 19.9%, Crafting 19.8%, Survival 18.9%, Open World 18.1%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #34 AColony
75% matchVery Positive89% of 136 reviews2023
Dev: ZeroTris
Windows
A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, Base Building 19.7%, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 13.6%, Open World 9.1%
- #35 Age of Survival
77% matchVery Negative12% of 245 reviews2025
Dev: Silky Sullivan
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Age of Survival is survival simulation crafting game from Silky Sullivan. Your player has been stranded on an island not far off of the coast of Africa where you will encounter many creatures, and players alike.
Why similar: Survival 27.3%, Crafting 19.4%, Open World 17.8%, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #36 The Planet Crafter
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 71,038 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 38.2 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 18.1%, Automation 16.3%, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 10.6%
- #37 Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 11,669 reviews2020
Dev: Panache Digital GamesPub: Private Division
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 23.3%, Open World 22.9%, Crafting 21.2%, Third Person 11.8%, Exploration 11.5%
- #38 Penkura
75% matchVery Positive90% of 198 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: Automation 19.6%, Base Building 18.2%, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 12.7%, Open World 11.7%
- #39 Colony Survival
73% matchVery Positive92% of 8,892 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 33.9%, Base Building 19.1%, Survival 14.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Open World 9%
- #40 Survivalist: Invisible Strain
70% matchVery Positive87% of 4,319 reviews2025
Dev: BobPub: Ginormocorp Incorporated
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 30.4%, Base Building 18.8%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 11.6%, Third Person 10.3%
- #41 Minicology
73% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Isaac DennerPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 20.7%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 14%, Sandbox 12.1%, Survival 12%
- #42 Start Over
73% matchMixed62% of 378 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 22.2%, Crafting 18.7%, Survival 16.3%, Sandbox 14.9%, Open World 10.8%
- #43 Starsand
72% matchMixed66% of 1,244 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 18.2%, Crafting 15.6%, Survival 14.6%, Open World 14.3%, Resource Management 12.4%
- #44 DeadPoly
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,942 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 25.3%, Survival 23.5%, Sandbox 20.6%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #45 Cubic Odyssey
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,655 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 37.9%, Sandbox 25.5%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 7.5%
- #46 Novus Inceptio
74% matchMixed52% of 1,302 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 16.8%, Survival 15.7%, Open World 15.3%, Sandbox 14.7%
- #47 Wildmender
69% matchVery Positive84% of 2,177 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 24.5%, Third Person 20.3%, Crafting 19.9%, Survival 17%, Exploration 8.8%
- #48 Adaptory
69% matchVery Positive80% of 106 reviews2026
Dev: Stormcloak GamesPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Base Building 17.8%, Automation 17.6%, Survival 11.3%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #49 Necesse
65% matchVery Positive93% of 27,406 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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%, Automation 15.4%, Sandbox 15%, Open World 14.9%, Base Building 14.5%
- #50 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
72% matchMixed66% of 6,000 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 48.9%, Resource Management 14.5%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 7.5%, Crafting 5.2%
- #51 Mesorift Survival
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 121 reviews2025
Dev: Meik.W Interactive
Windows
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 25.1%, Open World 22.5%, Survival 21.9%, Third Person 14.5%, Exploration 10.2%
- #52 Ragnorium
70% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
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 19.8%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 14%, Sandbox 13.6%
- #53 Shamania
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 150 reviews2026
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: Crafting 18%, Automation 16.6%, Open World 15.7%, Survival 14.6%, Sandbox 11.7%
- #54 Deep Crafter
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 98 reviews2026
Dev: Deep Crafter StudioPub: Samar Studio
Windows
Build a self-sustaining industrial empire in the deep sea of an ocean-covered alien world. Explore procedurally generated waters, automate resource production, and turn alien life into renewable industrial output through advanced bio-cultivation systems.
Why similar: Automation 24.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Open World 14.8%, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 8.9%
- #55 AETHUS
64% matchVery Positive95% of 1,895 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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: Automation 15.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 13%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #56 Subsistence
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,713 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 23.7%, Base Building 18.3%, Open World 18.1%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #57 Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival
68% matchMixed69% of 845 reviews2023
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
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 17.2%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 11.2%
- #58 Survival: Fountain of Youth
66% matchVery Positive85% of 4,383 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 18.7%, Survival 18%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 13.2%
- #59 Keplerth
67% matchVery Positive84% of 4,142 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 19.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Exploration 10.7%
- #60 Maia
71% matchMixed44% of 1,064 reviews2018
Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.3%, Survival 15.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 7.1%, Strategy 5.9%