Games Like Solarpunk™

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: Farming 21.2% ★, Open World Survival Craft 19% ★, Crafting 9.9%, Building 9.2%, Co-op 9%

Why You'll Like It: Features floating islands and airship travel that perfectly mirror the core traversal and exploration mechanics of Solarpunk.

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 25.9% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.5%, Co-op 10.4%, Open World 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival aboard a customizable airship while exploring a technologically advanced, ruined world.

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 24.1% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Automation 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Crafting 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on terraforming a hostile world through base-building and resource management, sharing the satisfying progression loop of Solarpunk.

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 38.4% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Sandbox 9.2%, Crafting 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game centered on building custom airships to navigate and explore a world of floating islands.

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 31.5% ★, Survival 11.2%, Co-op 10%, Crafting 8.3%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential survival-crafting game that emphasizes building and expanding a mobile base while exploring an expansive environment.

A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 8.3%, Crafting 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly rewarding survival and building experience with a strong emphasis on exploration and cooperative play.

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 19.7% ★, Farming Sim 11.7%, Automation 9.7%, Base Building 9.2%, Crafting 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines cozy farming and base-building with mech-based exploration in a peaceful, vibrant alien environment.

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 24.7% ★, Base Building 11%, Crafting 8.6%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique perspective on survival and base-building with a focus on exploration and interacting with the environment.

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: Base Building 16%, Automation 15.5%, Open World Survival Craft 12.3% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on large-scale automation and base-building in a beautiful, open-world setting that rewards creative engineering.

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 17.9% ★, Farming Sim 13.8%, Cozy 10.6%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the cozy, relaxing side of survival with a focus on building a home in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Farming 17.1% ★, Farming Sim 11.4%, Co-op 7%, Crafting 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing farming and survival sim that emphasizes community and building in a charming, open-world environment.

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% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Open World 8.7%, Survival 8.1%, Co-op 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A charming, exploration-heavy survival game with a focus on shaping the terrain and crafting complex bases.

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 30% ★, Base Building 9.2%, Co-op 8.6%, Crafting 7.6%, Online Co-Op 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on building and upgrading a train to traverse a surreal, interdimensional world.

Explore a colorful world and build your own cozy home on wheels. Craft workstations, and source energy from the sun, wind, or water. Upgrade and customize your vehicle, grow crops, and live sustainably off-grid with up to 4 players.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 16.9% ★, Farming 16.5% ★, Cozy 9.8%, Base Building 9.4%, Online Co-Op 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, cozy exploration game focused on building a sustainable mobile base in a beautiful, open world.

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 24.4% ★, Automation 12%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 8.9%, Online Co-Op 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automation and terraforming, providing a satisfying sense of progression and environmental change.

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.3% ★, Open World 14.1%, Survival 8.6%, Sandbox 8.2%, Crafting 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an infinite universe to explore with extensive base-building, crafting, and survival mechanics that align with the scale of Solarpunk.

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 37.8% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features immersive underwater exploration and base-building that captures the sense of wonder and survival found in unique environments.

An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Farming 23.3% ★, Building 9%, Base Building 8.5%, Crafting 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Blends building and farming with dungeon-crawling and exploration in a vibrant, open-world setting.

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 13.5%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 10.3%, Co-op 10.1%, Sandbox 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique steampunk aesthetic with drill-ship base-building and exploration mechanics.

Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.4% ★, Farming Sim 11%, Cozy 9.6%, Base Building 7.9%, Co-op 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, survival-lite game focused on farming and building in a relaxing island setting.

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 27.3% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 8.9%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Crafting 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that emphasizes crafting and base-building in a challenging, atmospheric environment.

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 26% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Open World 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A detailed survival and base-building game focused on the technical challenges of colonizing a new planet.

Get ready to explore, farm, fish, mine, craft, and raise magical Lumas as you solve puzzles and embark on quests across Luma Island. Play solo, or team up with friends in 1-4 player online co-op. Choose relaxing Cozy, challenging Adventure, or epic Hero mode to match your mood and playstyle.

Why similar: Farming Sim 17.6%, Cozy 14.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Building 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, farming-focused simulation game with multiplayer support and a relaxing, colorful aesthetic.

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: Building 15.8%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 11.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Open World 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox-focused game that allows for incredible creativity in building vehicles and automated bases.

Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game with a focus on crafting, building, and exploring a pixel-art world.

Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Base Building 12%, Co-op 12%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A water-themed survival game that emphasizes base-building and scavenging in a post-apocalyptic world.

Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Farming 17.8% ★, Crafting 7.5%, Base Building 7.4%, Survival 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on atmospheric survival and building a small, cozy cabin in a beautiful, dense forest.

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 23.4% ★, Automation 11.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 8.4%, Co-op 8.2%

Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!

Why similar: Farming Sim 26.8%, Building 17.8%, Crafting 16.6%, Sandbox 13.8%, Open World 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy crafting and building simulation game that emphasizes community and progression in a desert setting.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.8%, Online Co-Op 8%, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes crafting and building in a vast, procedurally generated world.

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 24.9% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Automation 9.5%, Crafting 7.7%, Online Co-Op 7.4%

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 14.2%, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Building 13.5%, Co-op 13.2%, Sandbox 11.6%

Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 13.4%, Open World 10%, Sandbox 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival game where players must build a civilization while managing the environmental impact on their world.

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! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Automation 11.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 8.6%, Co-op 8.2%

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 12%, Co-op 10.5%, Crafting 9.1%

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 20.7% ★, Building 11%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Co-op 9.2%, Base Building 8.4%

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% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Co-op 9.4%, Automation 9%, Crafting 8.7%

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 24.5% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 8.5%, Co-op 8.4%

Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Co-op 10%, Open World 8.6%, Survival 8.1%, Base Building 7.4%

Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 10.5%, Open World 9.6%, Sandbox 8.4%

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 33.7% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Building 11.3%, Co-op 11.2%, Sandbox 10.2%

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Automation 17.5%, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 11%

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 8.2%, Open World 7.6%

Piece by piece, create your own world in this relaxing Wild West-inspired worldbuilder. Craft, farm, hunt, build your base, and explore.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Cozy 10.1%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 9%

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 23.1% ★, Automation 14%, Base Building 12.5%, Farming Sim 9%, Sandbox 8.4%

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 23.5% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Automation 12.7%, Crafting 11.4%, Co-op 9.3%

KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.2%, Co-op 9.8%, Open World 8.7%

Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 9.4%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Co-op 9.1%, Sandbox 7.4%

Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.3%

Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.7% ★, Automation 15.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 14.4%, Open World 12.5%

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 37.4% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 10.4%, Survival 10.3%

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 28.5% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 10.2%, Online Co-Op 10%, Crafting 8.7%

Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 8.7%

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Open World 10.6%, Survival 9%, Crafting 8.1%, Online Co-Op 7.6%

Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8.6%

Explore, Build, Farm, Craft and Fight in this survival sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Delve deep to uncover the secret of the invading 'Faults' and restore stability to the land.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Farming Sim 13.8%, Crafting 8%, Sandbox 7.7%, Building 7.3%

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: Base Building 15.6%, Automation 15.1%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 12.1%, Open World 11.7%

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 29% ★, Automation 13.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 8.7%, Building 8.3%