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  1. #1 Nova Lands
    97% matchVery Positive89% of 3,351 reviews2023
    Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
    Windows
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    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: Automation 15.3%, Open World Survival Craft 13.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Robots 10%, Resource Management 7.9%

  2. #2 The Planet Crafter
    96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
    Dev: Miju Games
    Windows
    Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    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: Open World Survival Craft 17.5%, Automation 11.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 8.2%, Crafting 8%

  3. #3 Astro Colony
    95% matchVery Positive82% of 2,509 reviews2022
    Dev: Terad Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

    Why similar: Automation 20%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, Space 10.6%, Building 9.2%

  4. #4 Outpath
    94% matchVery Positive94% of 2,905 reviews2023
    Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.4%, Automation 14.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.3%, Resource Management 9.7%

  5. #5 FOUNDRY
    94% matchVery Positive81% of 3,508 reviews2024
    Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

    Why similar: Automation 15.9%, Robots 12.9%, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 10%, Crafting 9.2%

  6. #6 Occupy Mars: The Game
    93% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,012 reviews2026
    Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.

    Why similar: Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 12.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 10.6%

  7. #7 The Crust
    92% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
    Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
    Windows
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

    Why similar: Automation 20.8%, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 13%, Space 11.2%, Sandbox 10.2%

  8. #8 Satisfactory
    91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
    Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 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 20.1%, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 9.8%, Resource Management 9.4%, Open World Survival Craft 8.8%

  9. #9 Techtonica
    91% matchMixed65% of 3,183 reviews2024
    Dev: Fire Hose Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

    Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Base Building 16.3%, Building 13%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 10.4%

  10. #10 Forager
    90% matchVery Positive90% of 43,003 reviews2019
    Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
    Windows
    Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    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: Open World Survival Craft 28.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 8.9%, Sandbox 7.9%

  11. #11 Astrometica
    89% matchVery Positive83% of 2,970 reviews2024
    Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
    Windows
    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    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 16.4%, Base Building 12%, Open World Survival Craft 11.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 10.4%

  12. #12 Lightyear Frontier
    89% matchVery Positive84% of 4,206 reviews2024
    Dev: FRAME BREAK
    Windows
    Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.6%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 12.9%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 9.7%

  13. #13 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
    88% matchVery Positive85% of 620 reviews2024
    Dev: Luden.io
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 64%

    You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.

    Why similar: Automation 22%, Robots 16.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 11.7%

  14. #14 ASTRONEER
    87% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
    Dev: System Era Softworks
    Windows
    Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 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: Open World Survival Craft 21.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Space 10.4%, Open World 9.8%, Sandbox 8%

  15. #15 Microtopia
    86% matchVery Positive88% of 903 reviews2025
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

    Why similar: Automation 18.8%, Robots 15.1%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 10.4%

  16. #16 Drill Core
    86% matchVery Positive85% of 2,264 reviews2025
    Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
    Windows
    Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?

    Why similar: Base Building 24.6%, Sandbox 14.1%, Building 10.7%, Space 10.7%, Exploration 9.6%

  17. #17 Space Trash Scavenger
    85% matchVery Positive84% of 514 reviews2024
    Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19%, Automation 16.3%, Crafting 9.3%, Space 8.4%, Base Building 8.3%

  18. #18 Dyson Sphere Program
    84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
    Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
    Windows
    Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

    Why similar: Automation 24.3%, Base Building 17.1%, Space 12.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 10.4%

  19. #19 Star Crafter
    84% matchMixed69% of 104 reviews2025
    Dev: Tbjbu2
    Windows

    A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.7%, Automation 13%, Base Building 11.5%, Resource Management 9.7%, Crafting 9.3%

  20. #20 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
    83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,643 reviews2021
    Dev: Miju Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%

    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: Open World Survival Craft 20.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 8.6%, Survival 8.4%

  21. #21 Skyformer
    82% matchVery Positive90% of 59 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: Open World Survival Craft 17.2%, Automation 16.1%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 8.3%

  22. #22 StarRupture
    81% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
    Dev: Creepy Jar
    Windows
    Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 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: Open World Survival Craft 20.2%, Automation 18%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 9.2%

  23. #23 Eden Crafters
    82% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
    Dev: Osaris Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.4%, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 7.7%

  24. #24 Blossom: The Seed of Life
    81% matchVery Positive90% of 654 reviews2026
    Dev: Pebbledust GamesPub: Pretty Soon
    Windows

    Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 16.5%, Robots 11.8%, Automation 10.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 7.5%

  25. #25 AETHUS
    79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,163 reviews2026
    Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
    Windows

    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: Open World Survival Craft 12.6%, Automation 12.1%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 8.7%, Crafting 8.6%

  26. #26 XenoHaven
    80% matchVery Positive86% of 64 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: Open World Survival Craft 16%, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 9.9%, Open World 9.3%, Automation 8.9%

  27. #27 Plan B: Terraform
    78% matchVery Positive91% of 3,463 reviews2025
    Dev: Gaddy Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.

    Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Resource Management 16.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 12.7%, Crafting 10%

  28. #28 Astro Prospector
    77% matchVery Positive93% of 2,861 reviews2025
    Dev: Incrementalist
    Windows
    Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    Endless Coffee is out! Build your ship, survive 21 Days and break the Universe- Astro Prospector is an incremental bullet hell about mining coffee and fighting SpaceCorp. Collect resources, upgrade your ship and become unstoppable. Return AstroCoffee to humanity!

    Why similar: Space 38.4%, Pixel Graphics 18.6%, Strategy 18.1%, 2D 11%, Indie 8.2%

  29. #29 Builderment
    79% matchMixed66% of 119 reviews2023
    Dev: Builderment LLC
    Windows · Mac

    Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!

    Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 13.9%, Crafting 13.2%, Building 10.8%

  30. #30 Rebots
    77% matchMostly Positive78% of 54 reviews2024
    Dev: FlatPoniesPub: Astra Logical
    Windows

    Rebots is a first-person automation game with an expansive universe to explore. Using intelligent(ish) rebots, you can gather resources, terraform planets, and scan all of the things. Traverse the galaxy in the name of space capitalism!

    Why similar: Automation 18.1%, Robots 14.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 10.2%

  31. #31 Factorio
    75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020
    Dev: Wube Software LTD.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 188.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%

    Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

    Why similar: Automation 27%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 13.8%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 9.2%

  32. #32 Minicology
    76% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2024
    Dev: Isaac DennerPub: Iceberg Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    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: Open World Survival Craft 17.6%, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 9.1%

  33. #33 Faun Town
    74% matchMostly Positive78% of 105 reviews2025
    Dev: 游乐坊Pub: 2P Games
    Windows

    After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.

    Why similar: Automation 16.5%, Robots 13.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 10.4%, Sandbox 9.4%

  34. #34 Final Upgrade
    75% matchMostly Positive77% of 451 reviews2022
    Dev: TaosX
    Windows
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!

    Why similar: Automation 19.9%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 11%, Building 10.8%, Space 10.3%

  35. #35 BLASTRONAUT
    76% matchMostly Positive75% of 174 reviews2022
    Dev: Perfoon
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    BLASTRONAUT is a mining game in a procedural alien world. Explore, extract and profit.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.5%, Sandbox 13%, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 9.6%

  36. #36 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
    72% matchVery Positive84% of 2,178 reviews2025
    Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: HandyGames
    Windows
    Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    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: Automation 20.7%, Building 18.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 12%, Sandbox 10.2%

  37. #37 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
    73% matchMostly Positive71% of 818 reviews2025
    Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

    Why similar: Base Building 20.2%, Resource Management 16.8%, Automation 16.7%, Building 13.7%, Space 10.7%

  38. #38 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
    72% matchVery Positive85% of 4,518 reviews2024
    Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
    Windows
    Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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: Open World Survival Craft 18%, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 12.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 12%

  39. #39 Facteroids
    74% matchVery Positive80% of 87 reviews2023
    Dev: by Jan Zizka
    Windows

    Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.

    Why similar: Automation 21.9%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 13.5%, Robots 12.9%, Sandbox 11.6%

  40. #40 Space Haven
    73% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
    Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

    Why similar: Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 11.9%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 11.4%, Space 10.4%

  41. #41 Havendock
    70% matchVery Positive80% of 1,861 reviews2025
    Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%

    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: Automation 20.3%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 12.9%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 11.9%

  42. #42 GeoDepths
    71% matchVery Positive87% of 298 reviews2023
    Dev: A Little More Games
    Windows

    Pilot your drill deep below the surface of a remote planet, to mine ore to refine into resources, which will be used in drill upgrades and construction of your homebase. Upgrades will allow you to drill deeper to find more types of ores. Explore caves to uncover mysteries and secrets.

    Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 18.3%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 8.6%

  43. #43 Icaria
    70% matchVery Positive91% of 58 reviews2025
    Dev: Blindsight Games LLC
    Windows

    Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.

    Why similar: Automation 17.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Robots 10.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Sandbox 9.5%

  44. #44 Star Ores Inc.
    70% matchVery Positive83% of 293 reviews2025
    Dev: BlackBeak GamesPub: Three River Games (3RG)
    Windows

    Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine. Cut through the asteroid with your laser, sell ore, and create an automated network of robot helpers to maximize your profit.

    Why similar: Crafting 15.6%, Sandbox 15.5%, Resource Management 14.5%, Space 13.1%, Base Building 10.9%

  45. #45 Starbound
    71% matchVery Positive90% of 122,901 reviews2016
    Dev: Chucklefish
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 64.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30%, Sandbox 13.7%, Crafting 9.1%, Space 8.8%, Building 7.3%

  46. #46 Planetbase
    71% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 reviews2015
    Dev: Madruga Works
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

    Why similar: Base Building 25.3%, Space 17.3%, Survival 11.8%, Resource Management 10.6%, Building 8.4%

  47. #47 Farlanders
    69% matchVery Positive92% of 569 reviews2023
    Dev: Andriy BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%

    Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

    Why similar: Base Building 20.6%, Resource Management 17.6%, Building 15.3%, Space 14.9%, Survival 9%

  48. #48 shapez
    69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,210 reviews2020
    Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 13.9%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 11.3%

  49. #49 Surviving Ceres
    68% matchVery Positive87% of 137 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: Base Building 19.1%, Crafting 17.5%, Building 16.9%, Open World 13.3%, Survival 12.7%

  50. #50 Farlight Explorers
    73% matchMixed56% of 205 reviews2019
    Dev: Farlight Games Industry
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    Extract and gather resources from different planets. Manage the supply of electricity, water, food and oxygen of your base in order to survive. Automate the creation of new products. Build a spaceship to transport your products to other places...

    Why similar: Building 29.7%, Sandbox 27.8%, Space 18.1%, Crafting 10%, Strategy 9.1%

  51. #51 Keplerth
    68% matchVery Positive85% of 4,121 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 16.4%, Building 15%, Open World 13.5%, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 8.6%

  52. #52 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
    66% matchVery Positive91% of 7,161 reviews2024
    Dev: Osaris Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%

    Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.7%, Automation 13.9%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 8.4%, Resource Management 7.8%

  53. #53 Flotsam
    66% matchVery Positive80% of 4,240 reviews2025
    Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

    Why similar: Automation 20.4%, Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 13.8%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 10.4%

  54. #54 MineMogul
    64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,443 reviews2025
    Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
    Windows
    Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!

    Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 13.4%, Resource Management 11.8%, Crafting 11.6%

  55. #55 Microtopia: Prologue
    67% matchVery Positive95% of 112 reviews2024
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows

    Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

    Why similar: Automation 18.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 11.6%, Robots 11.4%, Crafting 10.1%

  56. #56 Captain of Industry
    67% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
    Dev: MaFi Games
    Windows
    Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

    Why similar: Automation 34.9%, Base Building 23.8%, Resource Management 22.1%, Building 10%, Strategy 4.7%

  57. #57 The Alters
    64% matchVery Positive90% of 16,976 reviews2025
    Dev: 11 bit studios
    Windows
    Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.

    Why similar: Base Building 24.3%, Survival 14.3%, Resource Management 14.1%, Crafting 12.1%, Space 10.5%

  58. #58 Outpath: First Journey
    65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,694 reviews2022
    Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 54 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 46%

    Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20%, Automation 18.9%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 13.8%, Crafting 12.5%

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