Games Like Starling

Planetary Planter is an open-world farming game where, instead of farming normal plants, you grow celestial bodies while exploring an alien world.

Why similar: Farming Sim 46.5%, Crafting 13.9%, Exploration 10.9%, Casual 10.1%, Open World 6.8%

Join Space Alliance as a new captain-in-training and work with your crew to solve the mysteries of an ancient relic found on the Grey Planet. Little-Known Galaxy is a cozy single-player RPG space adventure full of friendly characters, exploration, crafting, and farming.

Why similar: Farming Sim 36.1%, Crafting 17.9%, Open World 11.7%, Exploration 8.7%, Sci-fi 5.7%

MewnBase is a space-cat survival and base-building game. Scavenge around a barren planet for items to keep you fed. Explore and collect resources. Craft items and grow your base to help you survive.

Why similar: Crafting 28.2%, Open World 14.4%, Exploration 12.8%, Cartoony 9.2%, Base Building 9.2%

Isla Sinaloa is a relaxing game full of puzzles and activities to enjoy on a peaceful island in a universe full of friendly animals

Why similar: Farming Sim 30.2%, Fishing 18.6% ★, Crafting 15.6%, Open World 8.1%, Exploration 6.6%

Attract adorable creatures to your cosy home in this life sim, where what you build shapes who arrives and who stays. Decorate, farm and fish — solo or with friends — as you craft a life in the stars that your new companions will come to love.

Why similar: Fishing 28% ★, Farming Sim 26.8%, Creature Collector 20.6%, Crafting 12.6%, Space 3.5%

Ooblets is a relaxing and offbeat farming, town life, and creature collection game. Manage your farm, grow and train your ooblets, explore strange lands, and have dance-offs!

Why similar: Farming Sim 30.2%, Creature Collector 21.9%, Crafting 14.1%, Open World 8.6%, Exploration 7.1%

Set out to discover and record plants and creatures for the Violet Archive. Grow crops, tame animals, and build the perfect farm! Forge friendships along the way as you begin your life as a researcher!

Why similar: Farming Sim 38%, Creature Collector 22.3%, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 7.9%, Exploration 6.8%

Humanity Trashed the Earth and left for Mars. Only few remained. EXPLORE the world. Clean the environment, CRAFT with recycled resources. Domesticate animals. Rebuild your village. Restore environment and run your own post-apo FARM as there is No Place Like Home!

Why similar: Farming Sim 31.3%, Fishing 23.9% ★, Crafting 16.1%, Exploration 6.6%, Open World 6.5%

Gather resources and explore to help lost settlers build a new home in this relaxing, foraging RPG.

Why similar: Exploration 45.6%, Relaxing 23%, Casual 17.1%, Adventure 10.5%, Singleplayer 3.9%

Star Birds is a chill factory building and resource management game. Mine asteroids and create brain-twisting production networks. Level by level, you guide your feathered crew to new interstellar horizons!

Why similar: Crafting 35.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Colorful 13.4%, Space 11.6%, Relaxing 10.3%

From a world in ruins to a world in bloom. This serene management game lets you explore an alien planet where things have gone amiss. Harness the power of plants to restore the environment and build a flourishing community with your crewmates.

Why similar: Crafting 34.7%, Exploration 15.9%, Relaxing 9.9%, Adventure 7.9%, Casual 7.9%

Waddle and fly as a duck in space! Explore every corner of the galaxy and find curious creatures and materials along the way. Craft gadgets, upgrade your spaceship, and get cozy in this relaxing adventure.

Why similar: Open World 16.5%, Exploration 13.6%, Third Person 11.3%, Space 8.9%, Relaxing 7.9%

Play as an interstellar custodian sent to clean up a polluted ocean planet. Pick up trash, explore the vibrant waters, and take care of axolotl-like alien creatures!

Why similar: Creature Collector 26.3%, Crafting 16%, Open World 14.6%, Exploration 9%, Relaxing 6.6%

First-person Alchemist Simulator with RPG elements. Explore the world, gather ingredients, and sell or use potions you craft to help others and fend off enemies. Adopt pets to help you with your alchemy knowledge (and to pet them). Decorate your home however you like and brew your destiny!

Why similar: Farming Sim 33.2%, Crafting 17.2%, Open World 11.6%, Cartoony 9.1%, Exploration 8.5%

All aboard! Collector’s Cove is a cozy farming adventure on the high seas. Sail with your animal friend to uncharted waters, cultivate your floating farm, and discover new islands, crops and fish on your quest to become a Named Collector!

Why similar: Farming Sim 26.2%, Creature Collector 20%, Fishing 19% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Exploration 7.5%

A cozy exploration-and-crafting adventure: fly your seaplane between tropical islands, collect resources with the Swirler, rebuild storm damaged communities, and unravel the mystery surrounding Uncle Lou’s disappearance.

Why similar: Crafting 26.4%, Open World 18.2%, Exploration 12.6%, Third Person 7.8%, Base Building 7.1%

Play with friends in a cozy base-building adventure! Take care of adorable creatures — Morps, explore, discover new species, grow crops, fish, build relationships with your crew, decorate your perfect home, and automate production along the way!

Why similar: Farming Sim 31.7%, Creature Collector 23.8%, Crafting 15.3%, Exploration 7.9%, Base Building 5.5%

Industrial Petting is a cozy factory game about building an adoption empire of adorable pets! Play with friends or solo. Build happy pet pipelines, explore and farm an alien island, and fulfill adoption contracts from across the galaxy!

Why similar: Farming Sim 28.6%, Creature Collector 25.7%, Crafting 17.3%, Exploration 9%, Open World 8.3%

Dropkick Navvy: First Step is a physics-based crafting/survival sim. Help the World Tree rebuild the broken cosmos as the responsibility falls upon you. Scurry through diverse landscapes, gather essential resources, and build your way towards finding the eternal source of water for the World Tree.

Why similar: Farming Sim 49.5%, Crafting 30.9%, Third Person 9.3%, Casual 6.8%, Singleplayer 3.5%

Totemlands is a relaxing crafting, building game where you raise totem poles, hunt spirits, decorate and explore the lands.

Why similar: Fishing 27.2% ★, Farming Sim 20.3%, Crafting 16.6%, Open World 12%, Exploration 9%

Cultivate crops, care for animals, fish, mine resources, and explore diverse environments while growing the local community. Invite village residents to work with you and collaborate to meet city targets, helping you achieve goals more efficiently.

Why similar: Farming Sim 31.7%, Fishing 27.6% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Open World 8.8%, Exploration 7.2%

Transform a desolate sky island into a vibrant sanctuary. Using your enchanted crook, cultivate your garden, befriend quirky creatures, build a home, and unlock secrets along the way. Each choice adds a personal touch to your unique Skystead Ranch!

Why similar: Fishing 31.1% ★, Creature Collector 23%, Crafting 13.7%, Open World 9.6%, Third Person 6.2%

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: Farming Sim 36%, Crafting 19.3%, Open World 12.6%, Exploration 8.8%, Casual 5.9%

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: Crafting 23%, Open World 20.7%, Farming Sim 13.9%, Exploration 11.5%, Base Building 8%

Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine. Cut through the asteroid with your laser, sell ore, and create an automated network of robot helpers to maximize your profit.

Why similar: Crafting 31.6%, Exploration 15%, Space 10%, Sci-fi 7.6%, Adventure 7.4%

Armed with hand-me-down tools and some cash, you begin your new life as THE Chief Farmer, a position your grandfather once excelled in. Can you honor his legacy and transform the overgrown, untamed and desolate floating island into a flourishing farm abundant with produce?

Why similar: Farming Sim 29.2%, Fishing 27.3% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Open World 8.8%, Exploration 7%

Forage, frolic and zoomie as an intelligent, aww-dorable animal who discovers an ancient mech. Pilot the mech and use a suite of powerful tools to gather resources, shape the land, and build your ideal town alongside a growing cast of characters—solo or with up to three friends.

Why similar: Fishing 29.3% ★, Farming Sim 26.4%, Crafting 15.2%, Open World 10.1%, Exploration 6.4%

Honeycomb: The World Beyond is a sci-fi survival adventure set on the vibrant alien planet of Sota7. Adapt by building your base and crafting essential tools. Explore diverse biomes and use your bioengineering experience to uncover mysteries and secure humanity's future.

Why similar: Creature Collector 25%, Crafting 19.3%, Open World 12.7%, Exploration 9.6%, Space 5.9%

Base building simulator 1500 years in the future. Journey to the Island of Enen to forage, craft, build, hunt, meditate, and explore across three vast biomes. Discover secrets and create the retreat of your dreams. With over 160 unique items to gather, craft, and build, every home will be unique.

Why similar: Fishing 39.3% ★, Crafting 16.1%, Open World 12.2%, Exploration 10.1%, Relaxing 6%

Your spaceship crashed on an alien planet. Explore, salvage, craft, trade, manage and upgrade your way back home!

Why similar: Crafting 24.5%, Open World 19.6%, Exploration 14.2%, Relaxing 8.7%, Colorful 7.9%

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 24.2%, Crafting 20.9%, Exploration 14.4%, Space 12.1%, Base Building 8.2%

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: Crafting 30.6%, Open World 21.3%, Exploration 16%, Relaxing 9.9%, Base Building 9.9%

Ikonei Island is yours to discover! Explore and gather resources. Farm the land, craft tools and gear, and build your base or a cozy home. Befriend magical creatures and fight monsters with your friends or solo!

Why similar: Farming Sim 29.2%, Creature Collector 17.5%, Crafting 13.6%, Cartoony 11%, Exploration 10.7%

This is a role-playing game, which mainly focuses on casual gameplay, such as construction, farming, fishing, and farming, and integrates a variety of combat elements and systems.

Why similar: Crafting 31.9%, Open World 17.8%, Exploration 13%, Third Person 9.6%, Base Building 9.5%

A short sandbox rpg game that takes place on a square planet. Explore the world, gather resources, build a home and become stronger.

Why similar: Fishing 39.2% ★, Crafting 15.1%, Open World 12.6%, Exploration 10.3%, Relaxing 5.7%

In the wake of the Nacho Wars, your alien family embarks on a galactic journey to Lilith -- a faraway planet of new hope. Discover the history of the Mugalo galaxy. Relax to in-game radio. Grow your fishing, farming and spacefaring skills in a casual adventure across a cosmos of 1000+ unique worlds.

Why similar: Crafting 31.1%, Open World 23%, Exploration 14%, Third Person 10.9%, Colorful 9%

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: Crafting 34.2%, Open World 14.8%, Exploration 14.1%, Space 10.9%, Base Building 10%

Congratulations, you’ve bought your own planet! An agrarian rock at the edge of the galaxy that, for some reason, was practically being given away for free. So the time has come to leave your hectic, stressful life in an overcrowded metropolis for a more rural and rewarding life.

Why similar: Fishing 33.1% ★, Farming Sim 32.7%, Crafting 17.4%, Exploration 8.1%, Relaxing 4.7%

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: Crafting 29.1%, Open World 21.1%, Exploration 13.3%, Base Building 9.5%, Space 9.3%

An alien world sometimes needs a farmer’s touch to bring it to life. In this sci-fi, colonization-life sim, terraform a barren world: turn wastelands into verdant landscapes while exploring, farming, building, and unlocking all the mysteries of this strange new planet.

Why similar: Farming Sim 48.8%, Crafting 18.2%, Open World 12.2%, Space 8.1%, Base Building 5.8%

Stacks:Space is a space-themed base builder card game with rogue-like elements. Buy booster packs to get new cards, discover craft recipes by stacking cards together, create structures, manufacture drones and droids, defend your base from enemies, visit distant planets, and more!

Why similar: Crafting 50.1%, Sci-fi 15.2%, Casual 14.3%, Space 14.3%, Base Building 5%

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: Farming Sim 44%, Crafting 23.4%, Open World 15.5%, Base Building 7%, Relaxing 6.8%

Driven away by the cost of living, you and your childhood friend set off with the goal to turn things around and start a new life. Explore, gather, and build up the town from scratch into a place you'll be proud to call "home"!

Why similar: Fishing 36.2% ★, Farming Sim 28.2%, Crafting 15.2%, Exploration 6.7%, Colorful 5.9%

Rebots is a first-person automation game with an expansive universe to explore. Using intelligent(ish) rebots, you can gather resources, terraform planets, and scan all of the things. Traverse the galaxy in the name of space capitalism!

Why similar: Crafting 43%, Exploration 18.6%, Space 16.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Adventure 6.1%

Grow the TerraBeast you live on from a tiny patch of land into a whimsical world! In this fully hand-sculpted, playful systemic sandbox, you'll explore vibrant biomes, farm, craft, build, and befriend the wild OddFauna to create a thriving ecosystem.

Why similar: Farming Sim 29.6%, Creature Collector 24.7%, Crafting 15.4%, Open World 9%, Exploration 7.4%

Gumdrop was peacefully sleeping in their asteroid when a mysterious force smashed it to pieces above the orbit of a nearby planet. Venture through a whimsical world to collect all the lost star droplets, slivers, and shards in this 3D platformer collectathon.

Why similar: Exploration 23.5%, Open World 20.5%, Third Person 15.6%, 3D 10.1%, Relaxing 9.8%

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: Crafting 30.8%, Open World 23.3%, Space 10%, Base Building 7.8%, Sci-fi 7.7%

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: Crafting 27%, Open World 17.8%, Space 14.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Exploration 10.3%

A farming adventure with a dash of magic. Play solo or up to a 4-player coop. By day, restore your quaint farm into a summer paradise. Explore, raise crops, care for animals and rebuild your home. At night inhabit various creatures through your dreams and bring enchantment to the valley.

Why similar: Farming Sim 31%, Fishing 29.6% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Exploration 6.9%, Relaxing 4.5%

A game about an alien that has to abduct things to pay rent!

Why similar: Casual 27.8%, 3D 15.8%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Space 13.4%, Colorful 12.3%

Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

Why similar: Base Building 44.7%, Space 38.4%, Casual 16.9%

It's the year 5781 -- and you have been chosen to build and lead a space station in a wild corner of the galaxy! Attract visitors and explore hundreds of planets to fund your station.

Why similar: Space 29.9%, Base Building 23.9%, Sci-fi 22.2%, Adventure 12.6%, Singleplayer 11.4%

Enter the world of Mutter Island as Sylvie, a newfound witch with the ability to grow magical Critters. Restore the island, welcome the unwelcome, and uncover the mystery of Sylvie's past!

Why similar: Farming Sim 26.4%, Creature Collector 18.7%, Crafting 13.7%, Open World 9.4%, Cartoony 7.3%

Stranded on a barren moon with nothing but your tools, fuelless ship, and celestial powers of creation, you are destined to recreate what was once lost and be the hero of your own Little Universe! Don't forget to call in up to three of your friends to join your journey in the Splitscreen Co-op Mode!

Why similar: Crafting 25.3%, Open World 15.3%, Exploration 13.7%, Third Person 9.7%, Space 8.4%

Hunt, cook, and deliver cosmic cuisine using ingredients from across the galaxy to become the greatest chef in the Horseshoe Nebula. Explore alien worlds teeming with (edible) life, win the hearts of your customers, and thwart the rise of an evil interstellar burger chain.

Why similar: Crafting 19.3%, Cartoony 16.2%, Open World 11.5%, Exploration 10%, Colorful 8.8%

Arcadius is a relaxing but grindy multiplayer resource gathering sim. Explore an open world while collecting and gathering 100s of unique resources with other players. Compete to be the best at your skill & enjoy over 90 achievable achievements on launch.

Why similar: Fishing 34.3% ★, Crafting 16.1%, Casual 11.8%, Exploration 11%, 3D 9.5%

Bond with a baby falcon and go on an adventure. Falcon Age is a first-person, single-player action adventure where you’ll play as Ara in her fight to reclaim her cultural legacy in the lost art of falcon hunting against a force of automated colonizers.

Why similar: Crafting 26.6%, Open World 19.4%, Exploration 15.5%, Colorful 8.5%, Sci-fi 8.1%