- #1 The Planet Crafter
97% 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 25.9% ★, Automation 13.4%, Crafting 8.8%, Base Building 8.5%, Space 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It perfectly mirrors the satisfying progression of transforming a desolate environment through automation and survival crafting.
- #2 Breathedge
96% 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 34.4% ★, Space 12.7%, Survival 9.2%, Sandbox 8.6%, Base Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game captures the exact feeling of scavenging through derelict spaceships and managing limited oxygen in a space-based survival setting.
- #3 ASTRONEER
96% 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 28.3% ★, Space 10.8%, Survival 8.8%, Open World 8.2%, Automation 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar sense of wonder and exploration while focusing on modular base building and resource gathering on alien worlds.
- #4 Hardspace: Shipbreaker
95% matchVery Positive89% of 21,702 reviews2022
Dev: Blackbird Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!
Why similar: Space 28.1%, Space Sim 15.8% ★, Sandbox 15.5%, Sci-fi 12.3%, Building 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive experience for players who enjoy the meticulous, methodical process of dismantling and scavenging space trash.
- #5 Astro Colony
94% 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 24.1%, Space 13.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Space Sim 9.2% ★, Crafting 9%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the automation and logistics of managing a space-based base while exploring a vast, procedurally generated galaxy.
- #6 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: Space Sim 16% ★, Space 14.4%, Base Building 12%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: This is the gold standard for building, automating, and engineering complex structures in a sandbox space environment.
- #7 No Man's Sky
93% 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 32.6% ★, Space 12.8%, Open World 10.1%, Survival 7.1%, Procedural Generation 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a massive, procedurally generated universe filled with exploration, survival, and base-building opportunities.
- #8 Forever Skies
92% 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 30.9% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique survival loop centered around maintaining and upgrading a mobile airship base, much like a Space Rig.
- #9 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
91% 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 27.2% ★, Space 10.6%, Space Sim 10.4% ★, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep, comprehensive space survival experience with extensive building, crafting, and exploration mechanics.
- #10 Subnautica
91% 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 40.1% ★, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 11%, Open World 9.6%, Base Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: While set underwater, it shares the same core loop of survival, exploration, and building a home base in a dangerous, alien environment.
- #11 Satisfactory
89% 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 24.9%, Open World Survival Craft 14.3% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: If you enjoy the automation and base-building aspects of your Space Rig, this game offers the most polished factory-building experience available.
- #12 TerraTech Worlds
90% 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 25.9% ★, Automation 11.5%, Crafting 9.8%, Base Building 8.8%, Sandbox 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on building custom vehicles and bases to explore and harvest resources in a vibrant, open-world setting.
- #13 Voidtrain
89% 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 40.6% ★, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 8.5%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a similar experience of building and upgrading a mobile base that travels through a surreal, void-like environment.
- #14 Astrometica
88% 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%, Open World Survival Craft 15.3% ★, Space Sim 13.8% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Space 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game centers on surviving in an asteroid field, requiring players to scavenge and build in a zero-gravity environment.
- #15 StarRupture
85% 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 25.4% ★, Automation 17.2%, Crafting 9.2%, Base Building 8.4%, Survival 8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines base building and survival with automation, set against the backdrop of a changing alien world.
- #16 Volcanoids
86% 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 30.9% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9.2%, Open World 8.4%, Base Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique mobile base mechanic where you must drill and upgrade your ship to survive environmental threats.
- #17 Eden Crafters
84% 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 25.8% ★, Automation 17.9%, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 8.1%, Sandbox 7%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the automation and terraforming aspects of survival, allowing players to build complex production lines.
- #18 Raft
83% 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 42.9% ★, Survival 16.2%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 7.6%, Open World 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the core survival-on-a-moving-platform mechanic, requiring constant scavenging and expansion to stay alive.
- #19 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 27.4% ★, Space Sim 8.5% ★, Procedural Generation 8.4%, Space 8.4%, Base Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: This VR title captures the isolation and scavenging nature of space survival in a unique, immersive way.
- #20 Stationeers
84% 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: Automation 24.2%, Crafting 13.3%, Space 12.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a hardcore, technical approach to space survival that rewards players who enjoy complex systems and automation.
- #21 Life Not Supported
82% 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 28.3% ★, Crafting 11%, Space 10.3%, Survival 8.6%, Base Building 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the immediate, high-stakes survival of maintaining a small base in the vacuum of space.
- #22 Drift: Space Survival
82% 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 34.7% ★, Space 11.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.9%, Building 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the core survival loop of scavenging and building while drifting through space.
- #23 ICARUS
81% 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 33.8% ★, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Base Building 9.8%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It features session-based survival and crafting that rewards players for efficient resource management and base construction.
- #24 Cubic Odyssey
80% 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 29.7% ★, Base Building 9.3%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 8.5%, Space 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a sandbox approach to sci-fi base building and co-op survival in space.
- #25 Remains
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 316 reviews2021
Dev: SoloQ
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!
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 focuses on the survival and crafting elements of being stranded in a derelict space environment.
- #26 Techtonica
79% 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 33.3%, Base Building 14%, Building 13.7%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person automation game focuses on digging, building, and expanding a base deep within an alien planet.
- #27 FOUNDRY
79% 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 22.3%, Crafting 12.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a voxel-based automation experience that emphasizes large-scale factory building and resource management.
- #28 The Last Caretaker
77% 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: Automation 21%, Crafting 12.6%, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #29 Prospector
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 149 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% ★, Automation 16.3%, Crafting 9.3%, Space 8.4%, Base Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It highlights the resource management and sandbox building aspects of surviving in a harsh, open-world environment.
- #30 Star Crafter
77% 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 26% ★, Automation 14.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Space 9.2%, Base Building 8.2%
- #31 Astronomics
75% matchVery Positive90% of 645 reviews2025
Dev: Numizmatic
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Top-down action and space exploration meet asteroid mining automation! Navigate to randomly generated asteroids passing by and start mining. Impress your employer, upgrade your equipment, fight off pirates and save up for that ticket to Earth so you can finally come home... for the very first time.
Why similar: Space 33.3%, Procedural Generation 26.8%, Sandbox 11.9%, Exploration 10.7%, Sci-fi 9.6%
- #32 Occupy Mars: The Game
75% 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: Crafting 13.9%, Space 12.8%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 11.1%, Open World 10.5%
- #33 Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation
78% matchVery Positive84% of 454 reviews2015
Dev: Jace Masula
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Exiled to a deep space mining sector, you are left with a crappy ship, a laser, and a small mining beam. It is up to you to survive by working your way through the galaxy. Mine asteroids, refine and trade the ore, buy upgrades for your ship, hunt pirates... you get it.
Why similar: Space 25.4%, Space Sim 15.6% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a simulation-heavy approach to space mining and resource gathering in a sandbox environment.
- #34 Dyson Sphere Program
74% 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 29.1%, Space 15.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 9.7%, Open World 8.5%
- #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 29.3% ★, Space 10.7%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 9%, Space Sim 8.9% ★
- #36 Nova Lands
73% 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: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Automation 21.1%, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #37 Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,144 reviews2020
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 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 16.5%, Space Sim 14.2% ★, Space 11.8%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 7.7%
- #38 Astrometica: Prologue
72% 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: Automation 16.7%, Space Sim 13.9% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Space 10.3%, Survival 9.8%
- #39 Final Upgrade
73% 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 25.4%, Space 13.7%, Base Building 11.2%, Space Sim 10.9% ★, Building 10.8%
- #40 GRAV
76% 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 38% ★, Survival 11.4%, Open World 9.2%, Base Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.6%
- #41 Blossom: The Seed of Life
70% 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 25.2% ★, Automation 12.6%, Space Sim 9.5% ★, Crafting 8.4%, Base Building 7.9%
- #42 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
71% 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 29.9% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 9.3%, Automation 9%
- #43 Star Valor
71% matchVery Positive89% of 3,325 reviews2022
Dev: Rafael Burgos
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 28.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Choose your own destiny as you explore an open-world procedurally generated galaxy where anything is possible. Become a miner, a trader, a bounty hunter, a pirate, or perhaps a jack of all trades. Start off small and build your way to the top but remember with every action, comes consequences.
Why similar: Space 28.1%, Sandbox 19.1%, Open World 15.1%, Procedural Generation 13.9%, Sci-fi 8.3%
- #44 Skyformer
71% 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 25.3% ★, Automation 18%, Crafting 9.4%, Base Building 8.1%, Space 8.1%
- #45 Star Trucker
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,997 reviews2024
Dev: Monster and MonsterPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Haul cargo, trade salvage and keep your space suit close as you search for fame and fortune among the stars in a game that puts an interstellar twist on the truck sim genre.
Why similar: Space Sim 20.5% ★, Space 18.1%, Open World 13.1%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #46 Avorion
70% matchVery Positive90% of 14,288 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.6 hrsMean: 98.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
Why similar: Space Sim 19.5% ★, Space 16.6%, Sandbox 14.1%, Building 13.8%, Open World 12%
- #47 Jitter
68% matchVery Positive86% of 153 reviews2025
Dev: Berko Games
Windows
A sci-fi exploration & survival game where you take on the role of a spaceship’s AI. Explore, fight, and survive across a mining colony in the Main Asteroid Belt. Rebuild your ship. Rescue your crew. Reveal the truth behind your mission.
Why similar: Space Sim 20% ★, Space 18.7%, Sandbox 13.9%, Open World 13.6%, Base Building 12.3%
- #48 TerraTech
69% matchVery Positive91% of 24,455 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 33.0 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 34.3% ★, Building 14.2%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 10.8%
- #49 Starcom: Unknown Space
67% matchVery Positive93% of 4,082 reviews2024
Dev: Wx3 Labs, LLC
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Starcom: Unknown Space is an action RPG of space exploration and adventure. Build your own starship while discovering an epic story in a universe of strange mysteries, alien factions and uncharted worlds.
Why similar: Space 28.4%, Space Sim 21.6% ★, Open World 16.1%, Building 10%, Sci-fi 8%
- #50 Interstellar Rift
70% matchMixed68% of 1,655 reviews2020
Dev: Split PolygonPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
Why similar: Space Sim 15.9% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Space 11.4%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #51 Space Haven
68% 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: Space Sim 14.1% ★, Space 13.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 12.1%, Sandbox 11.5%
- #52 Fragmented
72% 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 44.2% ★, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 8%, Sandbox 6.2%
- #53 XenoHaven
67% 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 22.9% ★, Automation 9.7%, Crafting 8.8%, Sandbox 8.7%, Open World 8.5%
- #54 EVERSPACE™ 2
66% matchVery Positive86% of 12,587 reviews2023
Dev: ROCKFISH Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 29.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
EVERSPACE 2 is a fast-paced single-player spaceship shooter with exploration in space and on planets, tons of loot, RPG elements, mining, and crafting. Experience an exciting sci-fi story set in a vivid, handcrafted open world full of secrets, puzzles, and perils.
Why similar: Space 26.6%, Open World 18.1%, Shooter 15.3%, Third Person 8.9%, Sci-fi 8.9%
- #55 AETHUS
64% 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 19.5% ★, Automation 14.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Space 8.3%, Base Building 8.2%
- #56 Space Scavenger
68% matchVery Positive88% of 314 reviews2021
Dev: Red Cabin Games
Windows
Action roguelike where you build and command your own spaceships. Battle enemies, explore planets and customize your ship on the fly. Make the best use of the quirky ship modules you find, ranging from slingshots to ion cannons, to try and avoid certain death.
Why similar: Space 33.2%, Building 30.9%, Shooter 16.1%, Sci-fi 12%, Action 4.3%
- #57 Ostranauts
67% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,398 reviews2020
Dev: Blue Bottle GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 26.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
Why similar: Space Sim 16.8% ★, Space 15.8%, Procedural Generation 12.5%, Sandbox 12.5%, Survival 12.4%
- #58 Space Engineers 2
65% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,293 reviews2025
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Space Engineers 2 is a sandbox about engineering and colonization where you build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible world. Begin the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol, expand humanity’s foothold in the Almagest system, and fight to survive.
Why similar: Space 14.6%, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 12.3%, Survival 12%, Space Sim 11.9% ★
