Games Like Stars End

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 19.4% ★, Space Sim 10.8%, Co-op 10.1%, Space 8.2%, Survival 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a very similar blend of planet-to-space exploration, base building, and survival mechanics in a sci-fi setting.

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 16.7%, Co-op 12.4%, Space 11.2%, Survival 8.7%, PvP 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is the gold standard for space-based engineering and survival, offering deep ship-building mechanics that mirror the technical focus of Stars End.

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: Massively Multiplayer 20.3%, Space Sim 16.1%, Open World Survival Craft 11.8% ★, Space 9.3%, Open World 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A massive multiplayer space simulation that focuses on building and destruction, perfect for players who enjoy the engineering side of Stars End.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Space 12.9%, Open World 9.8%, Space Sim 8.1%, Survival 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: While more exploration-focused, it provides the vast, seamless space survival experience that defines the genre.

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 21.1%, Space 11.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 9.6%, PvP 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A space-sim that focuses heavily on ship construction and management, allowing for the same level of customization found in Stars End.

You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Sandbox 9.4%, Space 8.5%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Co-op 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox that captures the essence of space exploration, crafting, and survival in a procedurally generated universe.

The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Survival 16.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Open World 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Though not space-themed, it is the mechanical blueprint for the intense PvP and survival loop found in Stars End.

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 16.5%, Survival 16.1%, Open World 13.3%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Crafting 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly competitive survival and base-building environment that shares the same high-stakes PvP intensity.

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% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.4%, Co-op 9.4%, Survival 8.6%, Crafting 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game with a heavy emphasis on base defense and PvP combat against other players.

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: Co-op 18.6%, Space 17.6%, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: For players who love the technical survival aspects of Stars End, this game provides complex atmospheric and power management systems.

The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!

Why similar: Space 21.5%, Sandbox 14%, Open World 10.8%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Space Sim 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A block-based space sandbox that allows for immense ship and station building, appealing to the creative side of survival players.

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 28.8% ★, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Co-op 9.2%, Crafting 9%, Space 8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival with automation and base building, perfect for those who enjoy the crafting progression of Stars End.

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 28.9% ★, Co-op 12.9%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 8.9%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building custom vehicles and bases to survive in an open-world alien environment.

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 39.1% ★, Survival 11.7%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Open World 7.3%, Crafting 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that pits players against dangerous alien wildlife and environmental threats.

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 22.3% ★, Co-op 13.5%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Space 8.9%, Crafting 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim survival game that captures the feeling of establishing a foothold on a dangerous alien world.

Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Survival 13%, Crafting 12%, Open World 11.6%, Sandbox 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes managing resources and building shelters in a harsh, unforgiving desert environment.

Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.5%, Survival 9%, Crafting 8.6%, Multiplayer 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused survival game that emphasizes looting and PvP combat in an open world.

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 25.5% ★, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Co-op 10.1%, Survival 8.1%, Crafting 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed survival game that emphasizes exploration and resource gathering on various planets.

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 35% ★, Survival 10.9%, Open World 8.8%, Sandbox 7.5%, Space 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game with a focus on exploration and building in a vibrant, dangerous alien galaxy.

Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Sandbox 12%, Open World 10.4%, Survival 8.2%, Crafting 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that allows for significant terraforming and custom vehicle creation.

Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Survival 13.8%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base building with tactical combat, focusing on defending your territory in a sci-fi setting.

Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Co-op 10%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Survival 7.4%, Crafting 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that focuses on building and surviving in a post-apocalyptic open world.

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: Massively Multiplayer 17.4%, Space Sim 12.9%, Space 9.8%, Co-op 7.9%, Sandbox 6.8%

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Co-op 13.8%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Survival 10.8%, Multiplayer 9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that focuses on base building and resource management in a hostile world.

Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Crafting 7.8%, Co-op 7.8%

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 38.6% ★, Co-op 16.8%, Sandbox 11%, Sci-fi 7.8%, Online Co-Op 6.2%

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 31.9% ★, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Space 11.8%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based survival game that focuses on the isolation and resource management required to stay alive in the void.

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 25.6% ★, Co-op 11.7%, Survival 8.4%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Crafting 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 Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Space 12%, Co-op 10%, Survival 9.4%, Open World 8.7%

Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 8.5%

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 41.3% ★, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 10.1%, Multiplayer 9%, Open World 8.2%

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 24.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.9%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Crafting 8.1%, Survival 7.9%

Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.4% ★, Massively Multiplayer 21%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 10.5%, Multiplayer 9.1%

Stranded on a hostile and deadly planet, you must gather resources, build shelter, and fight to survive each night. But the secrets of this world await in a gripping sci-fi survival PvP game.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.6% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.1%, Space 9.4%, Survival 9.1%, Multiplayer 8.2%

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 31.5% ★, Space 12.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 8.8%

You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 13.1%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 7.8%

Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.

Why similar: Space Sim 24.4%, Massively Multiplayer 18.2%, Space 15.4%, Open World 9.7%, Sci-fi 5.9%

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 27.8% ★, Co-op 11.7%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Space 9.7%, Survival 8.6%

A fiercely formidable sci-fi survival game, set on a hostile alien world that wants you dead! Alone, or with a crew, do you have what it takes to survive?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.5% ★, Co-op 14.8%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 9.4%, Multiplayer 8%

Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 23.8%, Sandbox 9.6%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 8.8%

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: Co-op 13.8%, Space 13.6%, Online Co-Op 13%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 10.9%

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 30.1% ★, Space 11.4%, Space Sim 10.1%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 9.1%

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 28.3% ★, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Survival 10.2%, Co-op 9%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends 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 20.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.8%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Survival 6.8%, PvP 6.7%

On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, PvE 11%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Crafting 8.9%, PvP 8.6%

In the vastness of space, you are a lone robot desperately trying to survive. Build, explore, and fight for your life as you face deadly threats in the asteroid belt. This hardcore game shows no mercy—dangers lurk at every step, ready to destroy you at any moment.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 24.3%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 9.7%, Multiplayer 9.7%

Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.1% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Space 9%, Crafting 7.5%, Survival 6%

You’ll see an unexplored world full of dangers, mysteries and adventures. You will explore randomly generated planets, develop industry, conduct trade, plant colonies, explore outer space.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 50.2%, Survival 24.6%, Sandbox 17.8%, Action 7.5%

An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.5%, Survival 10.3%, PvP 8.6%, FPS 8.5%

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 26.7%, Space 17%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 11.8%, PvE 10.4%

Hide & Hold Out is a multiplayer survival game taking place in a devastated water world. Gather, build, team up with your friends and establish the foundations of your future floating empire utilizing the heavy guns of your battle ships!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Massively Multiplayer 21.3%, Survival 10%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Crafting 6%

Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.9% ★, Online Co-Op 15.4%, Sandbox 9%, Open World 6.9%, Crafting 6.8%

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 37% ★, Space 14.7%, Survival 10.4%, Sandbox 9.2%, Crafting 7.7%