- #1 Eden Crafters
97% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 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: Open World Survival Craft 22.8% ★, Automation 15%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 8%, Online Co-Op 6.3%
- #2 The Planet Crafter
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 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: Open World Survival Craft 22.5% ★, Base Building 11%, Automation 10.9%, Online Co-Op 7.3%, Crafting 7.3%
- #3 FOUNDRY
96% matchVery Positive81% of 3,960 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 17.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 10%, Co-op 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8.8%
- #4 StarRupture
95% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 23.2% ★, Automation 15.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 8.1%, Co-op 8%
- #5 Occupy Mars: The Game
94% matchMixed70% of 3,170 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 8.9%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Survival 7.5%
- #6 ASTRONEER
94% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 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 28.1% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 8.3%, Automation 7.6%
- #7 Forever Skies
93% matchMostly Positive78% of 9,059 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.5 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 24.5% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Co-op 9.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 8.3%
- #8 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
92% matchVery Positive91% of 7,668 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Automation 12.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 7.3%, Online Co-Op 6.8%
- #9 Satisfactory
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 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 15.9%, Open World Survival Craft 11.9% ★, Crafting 9.4%, Co-op 7.7%
- #10 Solarpunk™
91% matchVery Positive81% of 4,581 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Automation 11.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 8.6%, Co-op 8.2%
- #11 Outworld Station
90% matchVery Positive85% of 859 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Automation 22.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Co-op 10.2%, Crafting 9.8%, Space 7.8%
- #12 Astrometica
89% matchVery Positive82% of 3,211 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 19.3 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 16.3%, Open World Survival Craft 16.2% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 10.3%
- #13 TerraTech Worlds
89% matchMixed63% of 2,297 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 21.8 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Automation 10.7%, Crafting 9.2%, Co-op 8.4%
- #14 Blossom: The Seed of Life
88% matchVery Positive88% of 1,126 reviews2026
Dev: Pebbledust GamesPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 27.3% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Automation 12.2%, Co-op 9.4%, Crafting 8.5%
- #15 Astro Colony
87% matchVery Positive81% of 2,730 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 22.7%, Base Building 19%, Crafting 8.6%, Space 8.2%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #16 Lightyear Frontier
86% matchVery Positive84% of 4,735 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 23.1% ★, Automation 15.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 8.8%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
- #17 ICARUS
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 27.6% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 9.8%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Crafting 8.3%
- #18 Soulmask
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,506 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.3 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: Open World Survival Craft 21.8% ★, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 8.6%
- #19 Techtonica
85% matchMixed65% of 3,273 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.4 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 22.5%, Base Building 14.5%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 8.6%
- #20 Stationeers
84% matchVery Positive88% of 9,306 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 85.8 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: Automation 20.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9.7%, Co-op 9.5%
- #21 SpaceCraft
83% matchMixed64% of 2,773 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 54.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
Why similar: Automation 16.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 9.1%, Co-op 8.1%
- #22 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,722 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: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 9.5%, Automation 8.3%
- #23 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,438 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 77.1 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 27.5% ★, Co-op 10.7%, Survival 8.7%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 7.8%
- #24 Voidtrain
80% matchMostly Positive73% of 9,990 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 14.8 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 33.1% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Co-op 9.3%, Crafting 8.1%, Survival 7.8%
- #25 Star Crafter
81% matchMostly Positive70% of 110 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 26.2% ★, Automation 14.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Resource Management 6.3%
- #26 Omega Crafter
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 579 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Automation 16.7%, Crafting 9.1%, Co-op 8.4%, Survival 7.8%
- #27 Per Aspera
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,783 reviews2020
Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Why similar: Automation 19.8%, Online Co-Op 16.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 8.1%, Building 8.1%
- #28 The Last Caretaker
77% matchVery Positive86% of 13,935 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 37.4 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 22.6%, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 13.5%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 10%
- #29 Sandustry
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Automation 17.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10%, Survival 7.7%
- #30 Nova Lands
78% matchVery Positive89% of 3,544 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 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: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Automation 20%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 7.5%
- #31 Last Breath
77% matchVery Positive84% of 80 reviews2026
Dev: Mx
Windows
Last Breath is a solo/cooperative terraforming survival game. Dig through terrain, build powerful machines, and restore life to a dead planet. Work together to survive, automate, and reshape the world from the ground up, literally.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 11.8%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Crafting 9%
- #32 Volcanoids
79% matchVery Positive83% of 9,358 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 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: Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 13.5%, Co-op 11.8%, Survival 10.5%, Online Co-Op 10.2%
- #33 Dyson Sphere Program
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,831 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 76.0 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 29.5%, Base Building 20%, Space 10%, Building 9.1%, Open World 9.1%
- #34 Plan B: Terraform
75% matchVery Positive91% of 3,674 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 32.2%, Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Resource Management 12%, Building 8.7%
- #35 FortressCraft Evolved!
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,066 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Automation 18.7%, Crafting 9.9%, Base Building 8.6%, Building 6.9%
- #36 Aloft
75% matchVery Positive83% of 3,782 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Co-op 13.2%, Survival 12.2%, Building 10.2%
- #37 Space Trash Scavenger
74% matchVery Positive83% of 528 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 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 28.2% ★, Automation 17.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Base Building 8.7%, Survival 8.3%
- #38 Desynced
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,067 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Base Building 15.9%, Survival 9.4%, Building 8.2%, Resource Management 7.1%
- #39 Lost Skies
73% matchMixed61% of 2,995 reviews2025
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.5% ★, Base Building 17.8%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 7.2%
- #40 Factorio
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 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 30.4%, Base Building 20.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Resource Management 9.3%, Survival 6.3%
- #41 Planetaries
74% matchMixed58% of 228 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 25.9% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Survival 8.1%
- #42 Hydroneer
73% matchVery Positive86% of 28,536 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Automation 23%, Base Building 17.7%, Co-op 11.6%, Open World 9%, Building 8.2%
- #43 The Riftbreaker
72% matchVery Positive90% of 24,991 reviews2021
Dev: EXOR Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 25.2%, Online Co-Op 17.9%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 12.7%, Multiplayer 10.5%
- #44 Cubic Odyssey
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,754 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 35.2% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Co-op 11.5%, Building 8.8%, Sci-fi 6.7%
- #45 Modulus: Factory Automation
69% matchVery Positive91% of 869 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 24.9%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #46 Scrapnaut
72% matchMixed70% of 839 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 24.2% ★, Survival 10.6%, Co-op 10.5%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Base Building 10.1%
- #47 Everwind
68% matchVery Positive81% of 3,899 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 15.3%, Online Co-Op 14.5%, Co-op 14.4%, Survival 13%, Open World 12.2%
- #48 Alchemy Factory
67% matchVery Positive88% of 2,896 reviews2026
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Start small, team up with friends, and automate production with conveyor belts, pipes, and magical devices. Stock your shop with potions, jewelry, and relics, complete commissions, and build an alchemy empire! Alchemy Factory 1.0 is out now with the Wagon Logistics System and revamped shopkeeping.
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 9.2%, Multiplayer 6.7%
- #49 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
69% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.7%
- #50 Prospector
70% matchMixed70% of 152 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.5% ★, Automation 16.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 7.5%
- #51 Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,173 reviews2020
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 22%, Crafting 15.3%, Survival 10.7%, Space 10.1%, Sci-fi 9.6%
- #52 Survival Machine
68% matchMostly Positive70% of 809 reviews2026
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Base Building 17.4%, Crafting 13.3%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Co-op 11.4%, Survival 10.6%
- #53 Subsistence
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 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: Open World Survival Craft 39.2% ★, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 8.9%, Open World 7.6%
- #54 Scrap Mechanic
64% matchVery Positive92% of 123,030 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 65.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Crafting 14.9%, Building 13.7%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 13%, Open World 11.9%
- #55 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
66% matchVery Positive84% of 705 reviews2026
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.
Why similar: Automation 31%, Base Building 18.9%, Open World Survival Craft 17.1% ★, Crafting 16.1%, Simulation 4.5%
- #56 Abiotic Factor
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 59,444 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 21.2 hrsMean: 46.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Survival 9.7%
- #57 AutoForge
67% matchVery Positive87% of 467 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Why similar: Automation 23%, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 13.2%, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Building 9.5%
- #58 TerraTech
67% matchVery Positive91% of 25,032 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 32.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Building 13.5%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 11.6%, Survival 8.2%
- #59 Trailmakers
67% matchVery Positive92% of 39,576 reviews2019
Dev: Flashbulb
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 20.8%, Space 15.2%, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 11.3%
- #60 Necesse
63% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Open World Survival Craft 37% ★, Automation 9.3%, Crafting 8%, Base Building 7.9%, Survival 7.1%