
A physics‑based sandbox 2D adventure of survival and exploration. Gather resources to build bases, contraptions, and outposts on land or in space, but since everything keeps its mass, hauling it around requires smart planning.
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A physics‑based sandbox 2D adventure of survival and exploration. Gather resources to build bases, contraptions, and outposts on land or in space, but since everything keeps its mass, hauling it around requires smart planning.

Profectus
Rise through the ages. In Profectus you start with nothing but a world to explore. Your goal is to use what you are given to the fullest extent and work your way up from the stone age into space.

The Maker Way
Build creative machines, rovers, drones or robots. Use them to gather resources, discover new machine parts, source energy, construct bases and battle enemy factions in a physics-based open world.
Rise through the ages. In Profectus you start with nothing but a world to explore. Your goal is to use what you are given to the fullest extent and work your way up from the stone age into space.
Why similar: Base Building 28%, Crafting 21.8%, Sandbox 21.6%, Simulation 19%, Exploration 9%
Build creative machines, rovers, drones or robots. Use them to gather resources, discover new machine parts, source energy, construct bases and battle enemy factions in a physics-based open world.
Why similar: Base Building 23.9%, Sandbox 20.7%, Crafting 18.5%, Physics 13.7%, Simulation 10.6%
Explore and survive in this shattered world. Build, defend, and repair your raft. Search for secrets and uncover information about what happened - and most importantly, don't drown!
Why similar: Sandbox 27.7%, Crafting 22.4%, Base Building 20.6%, Exploration 13.4%, Inventory Management 10.3%
HIIS is an open world sandbox experimentation game, full of mystical vegetation, concealed secrets, and powerful potions. Domesticate the wild plants to farm them, brew elixirs from their products, and experiment to document their effects.
Why similar: Sandbox 26.7%, Crafting 20.4%, Physics 18.7%, Exploration 18%, Simulation 11%
Cartefact is an automation card game. Craft, automate and manage resources all through cards Play as a young explorer who lands on a distant alien planet to uncover its mysteries and find a way to solve humanity’s energy crisis.
Why similar: Base Building 26.7%, Crafting 22.8%, Sandbox 15.1%, Resource Management 12.5%, Simulation 11.9%
Create your own machine. Engineer it!
Why similar: Sandbox 33.2%, Crafting 25.1%, Physics 19.2%, Simulation 18.9%, 2D 2.9%
Stranded in a world that never stops growing. Gather, craft, build and survive in an infinite procedurally generated wilderness where no two worlds are ever the same.
Why similar: Sandbox 29.5%, Base Building 23%, Crafting 22%, Exploration 18.7%, Simulation 6.4%
Hands On Builder is a cozy first-person building simulation where you gather materials, prepare them yourself, and construct your home piece by piece. Cut logs into panels and studs, plan your worksite, and build at your own pace in a relaxed sandbox world.
Why similar: Crafting 21.7%, Sandbox 20.7%, Physics 18.2%, Base Building 15.8%, Simulation 14.7%
Build systems, sustain life, and transform a barren moon into a living world. In this 2D survival-crafting RPG, preparation and infrastructure matter more than reflexes... because when the winter eclipse comes, only what you’ve built will keep you alive.
Why similar: Base Building 30.1%, Sandbox 17.5%, Exploration 16.7%, Crafting 13.2%, Inventory Management 11.9%
A game where you take part in an immersive chemical laboratory simulation. Produce various mixtures using equipment and substances. Use mostly mouse controls to pour chemicals from vessel to vessel.
Why similar: Sandbox 30.5%, Simulation 25.6%, Crafting 22%, Physics 15.7%, 2D 5.1%
Are you ready for the apocalypse? Gather supplies, prepare your shelter and try to survive when the world you know is falling into pieces.
Why similar: Sandbox 28.3%, Simulation 20.9%, Base Building 20%, Crafting 13.2%, Physics 10.6%
GlowCore is a singleplayer progression game focused on resource gathering and gradual world expansion. In the center of the world lies the GlowCore. The goal is to expand the world by feeding the GlowCore with wood and other resources.
Why similar: Base Building 23.5%, Crafting 20.1%, Resource Management 16.2%, Sandbox 16.1%, Exploration 14.4%
A space exploration and crafting game set in a fully simulated N-body small scale solar system, where you build space infrastructure to progress and figure out the misteries of the cosmos.
Why similar: Base Building 21.9%, Crafting 19.6%, Simulation 15.7%, Exploration 14.2%, Physics 11.9%
Fringe Planet is a voxel based survival simulator game inspired by Dwarf Fortress and Rimworld. Set in a fantastic universe of eldritch horror inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft.
Why similar: Base Building 35.4%, Simulation 34.9%, Sandbox 29.6%
Miniland: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full game. Your task is to build your world and fight against your enemies. The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself!
Why similar: Base Building 24.1%, Sandbox 20.9%, Crafting 16.6%, Inventory Management 13.6%, Resource Management 8%
A high-stakes top-down survival game where every raid could be your last. Build a persistent safehouse, scavenge dangerous zones, extract with what you can carry — or lose everything.
Why similar: Sandbox 26.9%, Simulation 20.7%, Base Building 16.1%, Exploration 13.9%, Crafting 12.7%
Factory Engineer is a factory simulation game which is about creating a huge automated factory by building production lines to create products and make money. Start with simple products,make money,unlock technologies then create the most sophisticated products.
Why similar: Sandbox 25.7%, Base Building 22.1%, Simulation 19.4%, Inventory Management 16.1%, Resource Management 9.1%
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Why similar: Base Building 24.9%, Sandbox 18%, Crafting 16.9%, Inventory Management 12%, Resource Management 10.2%
Play with a variety of fireworks and even make custom ones yourself using different containers, powders and colors.
Why similar: Sandbox 41.7%, Crafting 21.9%, Physics 18.1%, Simulation 17.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Where's the Boat is a sandbox open world survival crafting game set on an archipelago of deserted islands. Gather resources, craft tools, tend to your needs and travel from island to island in search for a way back to civilization.
Why similar: Sandbox 22.4%, Base Building 22.1%, Inventory Management 16.3%, Crafting 14.1%, Exploration 13.1%
Flow Factory is a physics-based factory automation game. Tinker with complex production lines, make them faster and more efficient. Deal with freely floating pieces and defy gravity. Build, research, optimize. Relax and enjoy everything running smoothly.
Why similar: Base Building 27.3%, Sandbox 21%, Crafting 17.6%, Physics 14.5%, Resource Management 11.4%
Stranded on a small island, you must gather, build, and automate to survive and turn a humble camp into a thriving, self-sustaining base.
Why similar: Crafting 20.8%, Base Building 17.4%, Inventory Management 14%, Resource Management 13.2%, Exploration 12.4%
AstroPlanet is a sandbox game where you find yourself in the role of an astronaut whose ship has crashed on a planet with an inhospitable atmosphere. Your task is not only to survive, but also to turn this world into a habitable place.
Why similar: Base Building 28.3%, Sandbox 26.8%, Crafting 21.1%, Simulation 10.4%, Resource Management 6.8%
A top-down 2D survival shooter with base building and crafting. Explore procedurally generated islands, secure resources, and defend—or raid—player bases in tense online PvP. Every run reshapes routes, chokepoints, and risk.
Why similar: Base Building 27.6%, Crafting 22.6%, Sandbox 21.5%, Inventory Management 13.7%, Exploration 9.7%
HoverCraft combines vehicle crafting and base-building. Play solo or team up, create unique hovercrafts, explore a large world for resources, refine them into valuable goods for higher profits, and upgrade your base. Defeat enemies guarding rare resources and keep your base safe!
Why similar: Base Building 24.9%, Sandbox 23.9%, Crafting 16.2%, Simulation 12.1%, Exploration 9.7%
After a shipwreck, you are one of the survivors. To Survive you will need to fight for your life.
Why similar: Base Building 32.2%, Crafting 22%, Sandbox 20.5%, Exploration 10.7%, Inventory Management 9.6%
Stranded after a storm, survive the uncharted dangers of Paloma Island. Gather resources, craft tools, and build shelter in this open-world sandbox survival adventure. Explore lush biomes and diverse locations, uncover secrets, and face wildlife and enemies to stay alive.
Why similar: Base Building 30.7%, Sandbox 23.1%, Crafting 21.4%, Exploration 15.5%, Simulation 9.1%
Stranded on an alien earth-like planet after a failed mission, you’ll need to gather resources, build shelter, and fight to stay alive. Explore strange biomes, uncover hidden secrets, and decide whether to rebuild or escape before the planet claims you.
Why similar: Base Building 24%, Sandbox 18.5%, Crafting 17.7%, Inventory Management 12.6%, Exploration 11.7%
That's a simulator game 100%. Trust us.
Why similar: Sandbox 37.1%, Physics 27.3%, Simulation 18.8%, Exploration 16%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Experience an interactive exploration in the realm of the Lunar Beings, The Lunar World.
Why similar: Sandbox 37.4%, Simulation 28.7%, Exploration 19.2%, Physics 13.7%, Singleplayer 1%
Deep Pockets is an incremental inventory management game where every ore you mine gets dropped into your pockets as a physics object. Dig deep, ferry minerals in your pockets, and get rich! But be sure to not take more than you can carry.
Why similar: Base Building 22.7%, Inventory Management 20%, Physics 17.6%, Sandbox 13.7%, Exploration 11.6%
World End Dystopia is a survival and exploration game set on a fallen Earth coming back to life. Explore a post-cold world with the AI companion EDEN, observe the world, and decide the future of life and humanity. This is not a game about conquering the world, but choosing how history begins.
Why similar: Base Building 20.7%, Sandbox 16.6%, Crafting 13.7%, Physics 13.6%, Inventory Management 12.7%
Bandit the game is an open-world RPG with unique quests, character development, intense combat and interesting exploration. With optional elements: tower defense, city/base building and gang management.
Why similar: Base Building 27.7%, Sandbox 21.2%, Crafting 15.4%, Inventory Management 13.5%, Exploration 13.1%
Big group of people will be dropped into a deserted island where they will have to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 31.6%, Crafting 22.3%, Sandbox 22%, Simulation 12.3%, Exploration 11.5%
Away Team is a new Oxygen Not Included game. Mistakenly shipped off to an alien world, you will need to harness the environment and master temperature, pressure, chemical reactions and more in order to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Base Building 28.4%, Sandbox 22.1%, Crafting 15.9%, Simulation 11.4%, Exploration 9.9%
Discover a still unexplored region of space: the Exot galaxy. With your C.L.I.C. as your only ally, obtain the resources necessary for your survival. Develop your ship, improve your workshops, face creatures to conquer these hostile lands.
Why similar: Base Building 26.2%, Sandbox 26.1%, Crafting 23%, Exploration 13.8%, Resource Management 10.7%
Build your dream café... or die trying. In this fast-paced co-op base builder, you’ll cook, fight, and automate your way through a chaotic kitchen as you gather ingredients by slaying monsters and prepare magical meals for the Demon Overlord’s ever-hungry army.
Why similar: Base Building 27.2%, Sandbox 26.6%, Crafting 21.9%, Exploration 15.4%, Simulation 8.7%
See yourself stuck in the middle of an ever growing virus epidemic. Find or craft weapons and tools to fight against the living and the dead. Build a safe place to survive in this cruel, apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Base Building 30%, Crafting 21.2%, Sandbox 17.9%, Resource Management 12.2%, Exploration 10.6%
Rekindling is a settlement building and management game. You are tasked with rebuilding society after the ZTD virus has taken over and turned the masses into mindless creatures. Build, Harvest, Mine, and Fight with your survivors to build a sustainable society and take steps towards finding the cure!
Why similar: Base Building 30.8%, Sandbox 25.7%, Simulation 25.4%, Crafting 18.1%
Kingdom Craft is a survival game in a world of floating islands with unique gravity. Craft items by combining different materials, explore, build, and progress to reach the ancient portal and return home.
Why similar: Base Building 32%, Crafting 24.7%, Sandbox 17.3%, Simulation 16.3%, Physics 9.6%
Build up your own arms manufacturing company. Find your factory, buy resources, produce a wide range of military equipment to sell to the highest bidder. Good or bad? That's up to you, who you do business with is your choice. Don't ask, don't tell, get paid. After all, war is about making money.
Why similar: Base Building 28.3%, Crafting 18.5%, Sandbox 13.7%, Resource Management 11.2%, Simulation 10.7%
2D action sandbox about exploring an underground world, crafting and tactically defending alien stations. Build turrets, combine modules and repel enemy waves to unlock powerful upgrades that radically change your playstyle.
Why similar: Sandbox 31.5%, Base Building 26.8%, Crafting 22.6%, Exploration 10.4%, Resource Management 5.9%
"Poop Right Now" is a puzzle game. Players play the role of "Courier" who have just entered the industry here to transport "Poop" to the right place. Please carefully arrange the transportation route to ensure that the "Poop" can be transported safely and accurately to its destination.
Why similar: Base Building 31.4%, Sandbox 24.1%, Crafting 19.8%, Resource Management 13.1%, Simulation 9%
I Hate Seagulls is a chaotic sandbox adventure where you play as a mischievous seagull. Fly through bustling cities, steal sandwiches, and stir up trouble in a world that’s just trying to enjoy lunch.
Why similar: Sandbox 41.9%, Exploration 27.1%, Physics 19.2%, Simulation 10.5%, Singleplayer 1.4%
simple shapes: a limitless indie 2D physics sandbox.
Why similar: Sandbox 37.2%, Physics 32.8%, Simulation 21.8%, 2D 6.3%, Singleplayer 1.9%
Build a space factory. Mine, harvest, exploit. Manage logistics with railguns, ballistic payloads and gravity-bending haulers. Fight gravity with Focus, climb the tech tree. Expand and explore the solar system in this factory automation sim. Everything is a potential resource - even the Locals.
Why similar: Base Building 22.3%, Sandbox 16.6%, Crafting 15.3%, Inventory Management 13.5%, Physics 13.5%
Automate your factory to fuel a planet-splitting laser drill. Mass-produce mechanized combat units, deploy them in tactical auto-battles to conquer enemy outposts, and route their resources back to your expanding mega-factory. Grow your army and destroy the Runaway Artificial Superintelligence (RAS)
Why similar: Base Building 26%, Sandbox 17.8%, Crafting 15%, Exploration 11.5%, Resource Management 11%
Outer Factory is a peaceful and minimalist simulation where you design automated factories on different planets. Create complex infrastructures with simplified building mechanics. Enjoy your work as an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Base Building 29.4%, Sandbox 24.1%, Crafting 20.3%, Resource Management 11.7%, Simulation 10.2%
Triton Survival is an open world survival game about exploration, construction, engineering, and fighting on planets. Embark on this interstellar adventure and conquer the galaxy. Are you ready?
Why similar: Base Building 24.3%, Sandbox 23.1%, Crafting 19.2%, Exploration 13.2%, Inventory Management 12.3%
Jigsaw Industry is a game that allows you to unleash your creativity and fully enjoy the fun of thinking. Design your own factory to combine and process different shapes and colors. A fully automated and intelligent factory can be achieved through digital circuits, logic signals, and other means.
Why similar: Base Building 33%, Sandbox 23.1%, Crafting 16.7%, Resource Management 13.8%, Simulation 8.3%
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 23.3%, Sandbox 18.7%, Crafting 16.9%, Physics 12.6%, Exploration 9.8%
Explore the infinite world! Play with the fully destructible voxel terrain! Craft and split items! Build and customize a house or any building! And many more! This is the ultimate sandbox survival game where you can do almost anything you can dream!
Why similar: Sandbox 35.7%, Base Building 21.4%, Crafting 18.7%, Exploration 18.2%, Simulation 5.2%
Following in the footsteps of Dwarf Fortress and Gnomoria, this game aims to provide the best experience of both worlds. The graphics and accessibility of Gnomoria and the depth and rich content of Dwarf Fortress.
Why similar: Base Building 44.4%, Sandbox 29.3%, Simulation 26.3%
Establish an Outpost on a wondrous alien world. Harvest, craft, build a base for humanity, uncover alien mysteries, and explore strange new lands.
Why similar: Base Building 28%, Sandbox 25.3%, Crafting 21%, Exploration 15%, Simulation 9.7%
Constructed is a factory building game, with a single goal... to automate EVERYTHING!!!
Why similar: Base Building 27.9%, Sandbox 21.1%, Crafting 19.9%, Resource Management 11.6%, Exploration 10.6%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Base Building 26.2%, Sandbox 24.6%, Crafting 18.4%, Resource Management 10.7%, Simulation 10.7%
A cozy life sim set in the mystical afterlife of Ancient Egypt. Farm along the Nile, befriend the locals, and decorate your eternal home. Venture into the desert and discover oases, pyramids, and tombs. Unlock magical powers by restoring ancient obelisks and making offerings to the gods.
Why similar: Base Building 27.6%, Crafting 22.6%, Simulation 17.5%, Exploration 13.7%, Inventory Management 11.8%
Paleobiome brings prehistoric worlds back to life. Explore realistic 3D reconstructions of extinct biomes — from Carboniferous swamp forests to dinosaur-age islands — populated with animals and plants based on fossil records and scientific research.
Why similar: Sandbox 35.1%, Simulation 27.8%, Crafting 18.1%, Exploration 17.9%, Singleplayer 1.2%
Create your favorite pixel mall at will, gradually expanding the scale, trying to make the most money as you can, but also beware of those who want to trouble the mall coming. Enjoy the simplest fun in the well crafted pixel game filled with pixel customers
Why similar: Sandbox 32.6%, Simulation 23.9%, Base Building 19.5%, Crafting 15.6%, Resource Management 7.6%
Mine, loot, craft, build, fight, and explore the open world in this Minecraft/Terraria-inspired game. It includes quests from NPCs, farming and fishing, as well as a variety of arcade games to play in-game.
Why similar: Sandbox 31.1%, Crafting 28.9%, Exploration 19.8%, Base Building 14.5%, 2D 3.3%