- #1 Satisfactory
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Base Building 16.9%, Open World Survival Craft 12.4% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar first-person perspective focused on complex industrial automation and resource extraction across an alien planet.
- #2 The Planet Crafter
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Automation 11.1%, Survival 7.5%, Crafting 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the open-world survival and terraforming mechanics on a hostile alien landscape.
- #3 The Riftbreaker
96% matchVery Positive90% of 24,991 reviews2021
Dev: EXOR Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 26.5%, Online Co-Op 15.8%, Survival 13.9%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines intense base-building and tower defense against hordes of alien monsters with heavy resource gathering.
- #4 ICARUS
95% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Online Co-Op 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features harsh planetary survival mechanics where you must construct bases and gather resources to endure alien environments.
- #5 Factorio
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 31.4%, Base Building 21.9%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 10%, Survival 7%
Why You'll Like It: Provides the ultimate industrial automation and resource management loop, though from a top-down perspective while fighting alien bugs.
- #6 Techtonica
94% matchMixed65% of 3,273 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 22.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Immersive Sim 8.9%, Online Co-Op 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on first-person factory building and resource automation deep beneath an alien surface.
- #7 FOUNDRY
93% matchVery Positive81% of 3,960 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 17.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Co-op 9.5%, Open World 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers voxel-based automation and base-building reminiscent of classic factory games in a cooperative setting.
- #8 Dyson Sphere Program
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,831 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 76.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 36.2%, Base Building 25.9%, Open World 13.2%, Sandbox 10.6%, Sci-fi 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers a massive-scale sci-fi automation and factory-building experience in a vast procedural universe.
- #9 Abiotic Factor
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 59,444 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 21.2 hrsMean: 46.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9.7%, Online Co-Op 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Blends cooperative survival crafting with base defense against strange anomalous threats in an expansive facility.
- #10 Occupy Mars: The Game
90% matchMixed70% of 3,170 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines harsh planetary survival, crafting, and base-building elements with realistic mechanics.
- #11 Volcanoids
91% matchVery Positive83% of 9,358 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Co-op 10.4%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features mobile base-building and resource gathering while fighting off hostile threats in a steampunk setting.
- #12 Astro Colony
89% matchVery Positive81% of 2,730 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Colony Sim 19.2%, Base Building 19%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Allows you to build automated space stations and manage resources across a celestial sandbox.
- #13 Forever Skies
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 9,059 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Co-op 10.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a first-person sci-fi survival experience with a customizable airship acting as your mobile base.
- #14 Lightyear Frontier
88% matchVery Positive84% of 4,735 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 9.6%, Co-op 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world exploration and resource gathering with peaceful mech-based base-building.
- #15 Eden Crafters
86% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.3% ★, Automation 14.3%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 7.7%, Colony Sim 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on cooperative automation and survival crafting to transform an alien world.
- #16 ASTRONEER
86% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 9.4%, Survival 9.1%, Automation 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers whimsical yet deep planetary exploration, crafting, and modular base construction.
- #17 Stationeers
87% matchVery Positive88% of 9,306 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 85.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Automation 18.3%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Presents hardcore space station construction and complex atmospheric automation systems for survival enthusiasts.
- #18 Solarpunk™
84% matchVery Positive81% of 4,581 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Automation 11.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 8.4%, Co-op 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features eco-friendly open-world survival crafting, automated systems, and cooperative base building.
- #19 TerraTech Worlds
85% matchMixed63% of 2,297 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Automation 10.1%, Crafting 8.8%, Co-op 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Allows you to build customized vehicles and automated bases while gathering resources on alien worlds.
- #20 Voidtrain
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 9,990 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Co-op 9.1%, Survival 8%, Crafting 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Blends surreal exploration and survival crafting aboard an upgradeable interdimensional train.
- #21 Nightingale
83% matchMixed66% of 18,084 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 29.5% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines Victorian fantasy aesthetic with open-world survival crafting, realm building, and exploration.
- #22 Astrometica
82% matchVery Positive82% of 3,211 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.4% ★, Automation 17.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers a space-sim survival and exploration experience with base creation among the stars.
- #23 Subnautica
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 380,795 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.8 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 35.7% ★, Survival 11.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 10%, Crafting 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Immerses you in a rich underwater open-world survival craft experience with base building and alien exploration.
- #24 Raft
81% matchVery Positive93% of 379,035 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 38.0 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 33.2% ★, Survival 13.5%, Co-op 10.4%, Base Building 8.4%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to build and expand a floating survival base while gathering resources from the ocean.
- #25 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,722 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Gives a taste of the open-world survival and terraforming gameplay loop found in the full version.
- #26 Grounded
79% matchVery Positive90% of 95,977 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 41.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 27.8% ★, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Co-op 10%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers a co-op survival crafting experience with creative base-building and combat against hostile creatures.
- #27 The Last Caretaker
77% matchVery Positive86% of 13,935 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 37.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 19.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 10.5%, Open World 10.2%
- #28 Green Hell
78% matchVery Positive85% of 102,938 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.6% ★, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 8%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Crafting 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Presents an uncompromising survival crafting experience focused on base-building and managing biological needs.
- #29 Sandustry
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Automation 16.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #30 SpaceCraft
77% matchMixed64% of 2,773 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 54.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
Why similar: Automation 17.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Open World 11.1%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #31 Space Engineers
78% matchVery Positive89% of 134,498 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Base Building 19.7%, Co-op 14.2%, Open World 13.6%, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 13.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides robust physics-based construction for starships and planetary bases in a space sandbox.
- #32 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
76% matchVery Positive91% of 7,668 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Automation 12.9%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 7.3%
- #33 Subsistence
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 9%, Open World 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an open-world sandbox survival game emphasizing base building, crafting, and defending against hostile wildlife.
- #34 Outworld Station
74% matchVery Positive85% of 859 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Base Building 18.8%, Co-op 12.2%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #35 Space Engineers 2
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 5,654 reviews2025
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.1%, Survival 18.8%, Open World 17.2%, Crafting 14.8%, Sci-fi 12.8%
- #36 Orebound
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 993 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Automation 20%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 13.4%, Open World 12.1%
- #37 The Front
73% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 44.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 8%
- #38 Enshrouded
72% matchVery Positive86% of 106,050 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Base Building 19.6%, Open World 17%, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 12.5%, Online Co-Op 11.2%
- #39 Space Trash Scavenger
73% matchVery Positive83% of 528 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Automation 16%, Crafting 9.1%, Base Building 8.4%, Survival 8.1%
- #40 Starbase
75% matchMixed55% of 6,768 reviews2021
Dev: Frozenbyte
Windows
Median: 14.2 hrsMean: 91.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Open World 18.7%, Sandbox 14.7%, Crafting 12.6%, Sci-fi 9.8%
- #41 ASKA
72% matchVery Positive80% of 12,267 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.4% ★, Colony Sim 12.9%, Automation 10.1%, Base Building 10%, Survival 6.9%
- #42 Skyformer
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 96 reviews2026
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! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Automation 15.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 8.1%, Co-op 8%
- #43 Dune: Awakening
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 79,582 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 43.1 hrsMean: 98.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 8.7%, Survival 8.6%
- #44 Sunkenland
71% matchVery Positive80% of 24,007 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 33% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Co-op 10.8%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 7.9%
- #45 Everwind
70% matchVery Positive81% of 3,899 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Crafting 14.9%, Co-op 14.3%, Open World 13.9%, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 12.5%
- #46 Lost Rift
71% matchMixed69% of 1,717 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 10.6%, Online Co-Op 8.7%
- #47 Soulmask
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,506 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.2% ★, Automation 13.4%, Base Building 11.6%, Colony Sim 10.6%, Crafting 8.8%
- #48 Windrose
67% matchVery Positive87% of 53,040 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 33.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 11.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Online Co-Op 10.9%
- #49 VEIN
67% matchVery Positive88% of 12,706 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
Why similar: Base Building 17.6%, Survival 15.4%, Open World 14.8%, Co-op 11.1%, Crafting 9.8%
- #50 Planetaries
70% matchMixed58% of 228 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 8.2%, Survival 8.2%
- #51 Star Crafter
68% matchMostly Positive70% of 110 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Automation 14.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 7%
- #52 Omega Crafter
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 579 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Automation 16.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Co-op 8.5%, Survival 8.3%
- #53 Cubic Odyssey
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,754 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Co-op 11.5%, Sandbox 10.3%, Sci-fi 7.6%
- #54 Grounded 2
66% matchVery Positive81% of 24,763 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 12.1%, Co-op 9.1%, Open World 8.7%
- #55 Penkura
69% matchVery Positive90% of 202 reviews2018
Dev: LionsArt
Windows
Penkura is a sci-fi base-building survival game where you construct a colony from a top-down command system, explore an alien world in first person, and use programmable bots to gather resources, build, repair, and keep your base alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Automation 18.2%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9.1%
- #56 Farworld Pioneers
69% matchMostly Negative37% of 703 reviews2023
Dev: IgloosoftPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.7% ★, Colony Sim 13.3%, Base Building 10.4%, Co-op 9.9%, Crafting 8%
- #57 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
66% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 8%
- #58 Once Human
64% matchMostly Positive79% of 189,842 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Open World 8.6%, Survival 8.5%, Crafting 8.4%