- #1 Breathedge
97% matchVery Positive82% of 16,026 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Space 12.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a very similar orbital survival experience with a focus on scavenging debris and managing oxygen in the vacuum of space.
- #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 27.1% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 9.3%, Space 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares the core loop of survival, crafting, and terraforming a desolate world, making it the premier choice for fans of the genre.
- #3 Life Not Supported
96% matchMixed68% of 170 reviews2023
Dev: YETIBYTES
Windows · Linux
You are the lone survivor orbiting a potential new home planet, tethered to what’s left of your ship. Gather nearby debris and assemble a make-shift vessel in an attempt to survive the harsh realities of space. Maybe you'll live long enough to uncover the truth behind the ship's malfunction...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 10%, Space 9.3%, Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This title directly mirrors the orbital survival mechanics of Remains, emphasizing the struggle to maintain life support systems in space.
- #4 ASTRONEER
95% 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 28.7% ★, Space 11.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 9.3%, Open World 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on exploration, base building, and resource management on alien planets with a charming, sandbox-oriented aesthetic.
- #5 Space Engineers
94% matchVery Positive89% of 133,238 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 95.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Base Building 16.3%, Space 14.3%, Building 13.4%, Sandbox 12%, Survival 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for space-based base building and engineering, offering deep creative freedom for constructing orbital structures.
- #6 Subnautica
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 40.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37% ★, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: While set underwater, it provides the definitive atmospheric survival and crafting experience that inspired many space-based survival games.
- #7 Space Trash Scavenger
93% 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 24.9% ★, Crafting 9.7%, Space 9.4%, Base Building 7.7%, Survival 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game captures the scavenging and survival aspect of Remains, tasking you with cleaning up space debris to build your base.
- #8 Starbound
92% 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 38.1% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Space 9.5%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This 2D sandbox offers a massive universe to explore with extensive crafting, base building, and survival mechanics.
- #9 Starsand
91% matchMixed66% of 1,227 reviews2022
Dev: Tunnel Vision StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.2%, Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a challenging survival experience with a heavy emphasis on building shelter and managing resources in a harsh, open environment.
- #10 Forever Skies
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 9.4%, Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique high-altitude survival loop where you must maintain and build upon a mobile airship base.
- #11 Drift: Space Survival
90% matchMixed70% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Space 11.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9.4%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A direct take on the orbital survival sub-genre, focusing on the immediate dangers of drifting through space.
- #12 Raft
87% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.7% ★, Survival 15.8%, Crafting 11.3%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Much like orbital survival, this game forces you to build and expand your base on a small platform while surviving in a hostile environment.
- #13 Stationeers
89% matchVery Positive88% of 8,897 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 81.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 14.3%, Space 13.6%, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a more hardcore, technical approach to space base building, requiring complex management of atmospheric and power systems.
- #14 ICARUS
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that focuses on atmospheric exploration, crafting, and building shelters against harsh environments.
- #15 Astrometica
84% 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: Open World Survival Craft 19.7% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Space 13.5%, Survival 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person space survival game that tasks you with exploring debris fields and building a base to survive.
- #16 Voidtrain
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,176 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10%, Survival 8.9%, Building 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique survival experience where you build and upgrade a moving base that travels through a surreal void.
- #17 Star Shelter
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 435 reviews2018
Dev: Overflow
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Base Building 12%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Space 8.9%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A VR-focused survival game that perfectly captures the feeling of being trapped in a small, customizable space station.
- #18 Under A New Sun
85% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 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: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 11%, Open World 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the classic survival-craft loop within an open-world setting, emphasizing exploration and base construction.
- #19 Eden Crafters
83% 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 27.9% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 8.5%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It combines base building and automation with a focus on terraforming and surviving on a new world.
- #20 Skyformer
81% 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 27.1% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 9.5%, Space 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game integrates automation and base building into a survival framework, perfect for players who enjoy the technical side of crafting.
- #21 Rem Survival
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 13.6%, Building 11.1%, Survival 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that shares the core thematic elements of building a base to endure a hostile environment.
- #22 Nighthold: Number 1
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 356 reviews2025
Dev: 2 Zombie GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 26%
Investigate a starship crash, explore a hostile world, build shelters and survive nightly attacks of the Rot. Tear down any structure and experience total freedom of action.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 10%
Why You'll Like It: A single-player sandbox survival game that prioritizes base building and resource management.
- #23 Urge
82% matchVery Positive90% of 476 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-horror take on the space-building genre that adds a layer of tension and atmospheric dread.
- #24 Cubic Odyssey
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,483 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 8.6%, Procedural Generation 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi base-building game that focuses on cooperative play and sandbox survival mechanics.
- #25 Signs of Life
80% matchMostly Positive76% of 841 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 9.3%, Space 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that offers deep crafting and base-building mechanics in a sci-fi setting.
- #26 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
76% 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 30.3% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 8%
- #27 Fragmented
79% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.6% ★, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 8%, Sandbox 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused survival game that emphasizes base building and defending your territory in a dangerous alien world.
- #28 Hostile Planet: Survival
78% matchMixed65% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Aliens Developers
Windows
Hostile Planet: Survival is a harsh adventure on an uncharted planet that full of danger and trials.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Crafting 15%, Survival 13.8%, Building 11.5%, Open World 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a straightforward survival and crafting experience set on a dangerous, alien planet.
- #29 Oxygen: First Breath
75% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Base Building 26%, Survival 16.2%, Building 16%, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 11.4%
- #30 Edge of Space
79% matchMostly Negative33% of 2,729 reviews2015
Dev: Handyman StudiosPub: Reverb Triple XP
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.6% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Space 9.3%, Survival 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox game that features intense space survival, crafting, and exploration in a procedurally generated universe.
- #31 Crushed
77% matchMixed55% of 307 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.4%, Building 9.3%
- #32 Star Crafter
74% 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 27.5% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.6%, Space 10.5%, Survival 6.7%
- #33 Occupy Mars: The Game
72% 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 15.1%, Crafting 13.7%, Space 12.6%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 11.2%
- #34 GRAV
77% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 8.7%
- #35 Craterbound
76% matchMixed54% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Marquez
Windows
Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Space 11.6%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 9.5%
- #36 Volcanoids
73% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 9.2%, Building 8.4%
- #37 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,087 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Space 11.1%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 8.6%
- #38 The Last Caretaker
69% matchVery Positive85% of 9,793 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 30.9 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: Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 14.4%, Sandbox 11.4%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 9.9%
- #39 Survival: Lost Way
74% matchMostly Negative37% of 287 reviews2023
Dev: SimplePlanPub: SimplePlan Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.
Why similar: Crafting 24.1%, Survival 19.5%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 13.8%, Simulation 6.6%
- #40 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
68% 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 30.3% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Sandbox 7.7%, Building 7.6%
- #41 Stars End
71% matchMixed61% of 1,414 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Space 12.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #42 Gone: Survival
73% matchMixed44% of 308 reviews2020
Dev: Coden StudioPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Gone Survival is a first-person survival game for one player. Where you have many opportunities and a completely open world
Why similar: Base Building 17.9%, Crafting 17.3%, Building 15.2%, Survival 14.3%, Sandbox 12.5%
- #43 Astrometica: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive90% of 1,281 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Astrometica: Prologue is the free game about surviving in space. You need to use your skills and tools to stay alive. There are many challenges to face, and you need to fight to survive. You also need to build a new base in space.
Why similar: Base Building 19%, Building 14.8%, Space 13.8%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 12.8%
- #44 Planetaries
70% matchMixed59% of 222 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 10.3%, Survival 9.2%
- #45 Scrapnaut
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 824 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Building 14.2%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 10.8%, Base Building 10.7%
- #46 Out of Reach
71% matchMixed57% of 3,044 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.8% ★, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 8.9%, Building 8.6%
- #47 No Man's Sky
68% matchVery Positive85% of 402,164 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.2 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Space 13.7%, Open World 10%, Procedural Generation 7.9%, Survival 7.4%
- #48 Outerstellar
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 168 reviews2023
Dev: Strange Horizons Ltd
Windows
Stranded on a hostile and deadly planet, you must gather resources, build shelter, and fight to survive each night. But the secrets of this world await in a gripping sci-fi survival PvP game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.8%, Space 11.2%, Survival 10.9%
- #49 Voxelaxy [Remastered]
72% matchMixed61% of 51 reviews2017
Dev: Jakub Klementewicz
Windows
Using only a limited set of tools, you have to survive in a hostile environment. Crafting oxygen and finding food seems almost impossible...
Why similar: Survival 26.7%, Open World 24.9%, Sci-fi 16%, Simulation 12.5%, Adventure 10.2%
- #50 MewnBase
66% matchVery Positive93% of 1,428 reviews2023
Dev: Cairn4
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MewnBase is a space-cat survival and base-building game. Scavenge around a barren planet for items to keep you fed. Explore and collect resources. Craft items and grow your base to help you survive.
Why similar: Base Building 17.6%, Crafting 14.6%, Space 12.6%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 11.1%
- #51 TerraTech Worlds
67% matchMixed63% of 2,175 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #52 Dig or Die
67% matchVery Positive90% of 4,268 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 12.3%, Sandbox 12%, Base Building 7.2%
- #53 XenoHaven
65% 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 22.8% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 9.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 8.7%
- #54 KeepUp Survival
67% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 10.7%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #55 Heat Death: Survival Train
64% matchMostly Positive79% of 660 reviews2024
Dev: Mass Game DevsPub: LightOnDevs
Windows
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 10.9%, Survival 9.6%
