- #1 MineEngineer
97% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: MoonBuninni
Windows · Mac
Build physics-driven ships and automated factories block by block in a 2D space survival sandbox. Mine planets and asteroids, program machines, explore a hostile universe and survive solo or with friends.
Why similar: Automation 13.8%, Mining 13.3% ★, Space Sim 10.6%, Base Building 10.2%, Space 8.2%
- #2 The Last Starship
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,705 reviews2026
Dev: Introversion Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
Why similar: Mining 16.8% ★, Colony Sim 13.1%, Space Sim 12.8%, Automation 9.7%, Base Building 9.5%
- #3 Bouncekraft
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sinister Plots Games
Windows · Mac
A physics-driven automation game where your workers bounce between buildings like pinballs. Design bounce paths, build production chains, and survive asteroid waves.
Why similar: Mining 23.8% ★, Base Building 14%, Space Sim 12.8%, Automation 12.4%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #4 Factor Y
95% matchMostly Positive75% of 24 reviews2024
Dev: Martin Buck Software
Windows · Linux
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
Why similar: Mining 19.5% ★, Automation 16.6%, Colony Sim 12%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 8.1%
- #5 Project Longshot
94% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: LongshotWorks
Windows
Launch from a familiar world into a 1:1 scale solar system of beautiful, unforgiving planets. Colonise, mine, and explore real places that people may walk upon within your lifetime. Project Longshot hands you a space program and asks only one question. How far can your program go?
Why similar: Colony Sim 13.5%, Space Sim 13.3%, Flight 10.4%, Space 9.1%, Base Building 8.3%
- #6 Astro Colony
93% 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: Colony Sim 17.2%, Automation 16.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Space 10.5%, Space Sim 9.8%
- #7 Industronaut
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Amca Games
Windows
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
Why similar: Mining 18.4% ★, Automation 16.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Space Sim 8.8%, Crafting 8.7%
- #8 The Ignition Protocol
92% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: SuperKitowiec
Windows
The Ignition Protocol is a slow-paced, top-down incremental asteroid-mining game. Fly your ship in zero-g, mine and tow asteroids, transport resources, automate your base, and ignite a new star - the last light in a fading universe.
Why similar: Mining 21.8% ★, Automation 16.1%, Space 11.2%, Space Sim 10.2%, Physics 8%
- #9 Exovia
91% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: ByteRockers' Games
Windows
Exovia is a physics-based mining and automation sandbox in space. Survey asteroids, engineer zero-G logistics without conveyor belts, and design complex Newtonian factories. Turn floating chaos into perfect order and experience true inner peace as you solve one satisfying problem and then the next.
Why similar: Mining 16.8% ★, Automation 13.3%, Space Sim 13.2%, Base Building 8.7%, Building 7.9%
- #10 Yuri's Resolve
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Apothecary Games
Windows
Yuri’s Resolve is a single-player factory-building game set in Mars' orbit. Salvage wreckage, mine Phobos, construct manufacturing systems, and forge a path back home. Operate from the immersive cockpit of your ship as Yuri’s Resolve delivers a bold, innovative take on the factory building genre.
Why similar: Automation 18.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Space Sim 11.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Space 9.7%
- #11 Astario
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ondřej Hroch
Windows
Astario is a universe in which you can build functional ships and orbital stations with automated factories. Collect materials, craft new blocks, and expand into the universe. Nothing is ever truly static, ships, stations, asteroids, planets, everything follows the laws of orbital motion.
Why similar: Mining 20.8% ★, Automation 15%, Space Sim 12.2%, Space 11.5%, Building 10.9%
- #12 Flow Factory
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Smuie
Windows
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: Automation 20.4%, Mining 17.7% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.8%
- #13 Starvector
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Justus BlairPub: Octopus Inc. Studios
Windows
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
Why similar: Automation 17%, Space Sim 11.8%, Building 9.8%, Immersive Sim 9.8%, Base Building 9%
- #14 Space Trader Corps
87% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: D SquiresPub: Moronical Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A real-time multiplayer space trading game in a shared persistent galaxy. Haul cargo across a living player-driven galaxy, mine asteroids, colonize and industrialize planets, become a pirate (or a hunt them), or out-trade every other captain - solo or with your friends. PvP & PvE.
Why similar: Diplomacy 16.3% ★, Colony Sim 15.8%, Mining 15% ★, Space Sim 13.3%, Building 8.2%
- #15 Starward Era
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: QianMo Studio
Windows
Dig deep into an alien world, gather resources, explore the unknown, and build interconnected power, oxygen, and production systems. Upgrade your gear, expand your base, and automate logistics with drones as manual work gradually grows into an efficient production network.
Why similar: Mining 27.8% ★, Automation 18.4%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 8.5%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #16 LithoBreak
88% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Tau Ceti Labs
Windows
LithoBreak is an Early Access industrial survival game rebuilding toward one moon-site loop: boot up the console, build the first site, and help shape a science-driven survival sim.Play with Science
Why similar: Mining 16.7% ★, Automation 16.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Space Sim 11.4%, Building 9.6%
- #17 Veinfall
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Doca
Windows
Veinfall is a 2D exploration, crafting, and factory automation game. Mine ore, gather materials, build machines, and connect production lines with conveyors. Grow a small hand-built base into your own factory as you explore deeper into the planet.
Why similar: Mining 24.5% ★, Automation 21.3%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.4%
- #18 Launch Window
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: gumptiongames
Windows
Launch Window is a single player physics-based automation game where you establish supply chains across an entire solar system using orbital mechanics.
Why similar: Space Sim 16%, Automation 15%, Colony Sim 12.1%, Flight 11%, Physics 9.2%
- #19 Hexfactory
84% matchMixed54% of 13 reviews2025
Dev: Aquila Industrial
Windows
Build cities and factories in an infinite Hex World. Explore more tiles. Balance your city's production and consumption, attract more citizens of different classes, research new technologies and build more factories and cities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3%, Space Sim 16%, Automation 14.1%, Mining 11.7% ★, Building 8.6%
- #20 Colony
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orbit Games
Windows · Mac
Craft, defend, and conquer in Colony! Solo or with friends. Engage in battles against rival colonies, harness automation for efficient production, explore new islands with new resources, and master the art of survival. Don't wait, your colony needs you!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, Mining 19% ★, Automation 16.9%, Diplomacy 12% ★, Base Building 10.3%
- #21 Cosmic Ascent
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Leandro Albornoz
Windows
Build and expand an orbital station in this idle/incremental space colony sim. Manage crew, resources, refinery chains, research and ship expeditions as you progress from Earth orbit toward new planets.
Why similar: Automation 16.3%, Colony Sim 15.9%, Space Sim 12.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Mining 10.4% ★
- #22 Stationeers
84% 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: Mining 15.6% ★, Colony Sim 14.6%, Automation 13.3%, Base Building 9.5%, Building 8.2%
- #23 MORS
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Phiality
Windows
Build an automated factory on a true-scale Mars streamed from real NASA terrain. Mine, smelt and belt resources, run trains between outposts, master chemistry, and grow from a lone lander into a planet-spanning industry while the real Martian weather does its worst.
Why similar: Automation 17.7%, Mining 16.1% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Space Sim 11.2%, Space 9.5%
- #24 Facteroids
81% matchVery Positive80% of 87 reviews2023
Dev: by Jan Zizka
Windows
Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.
Why similar: Automation 17.7%, Mining 16.9% ★, Colony Sim 14.5%, Base Building 12%, Building 9.9%
- #25 Sol Survivor
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Evil Space Games
Windows
Build, host, and survive in a persistent multiplayer space sandbox set in the outer Sol system. Construct orbital habitats, manage fragile station systems, and keep your crew alive while expanding through zero-g, Saturn-ring danger, and player-built infrastructure.
Why similar: Flight 17.4%, Automation 15.1%, Building 12.1%, Space Sim 10.6%, Crafting 10.2%
- #26 Main Sequence
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tumbling Dumpling StudioPub: Mythwright
Windows
Main Sequence is a first-person space-sim factory builder where you design spaceships, build space stations, and automate everything. Start with a single ship and grow to become an interstellar industrial empire as you leave your mark on the galaxy.
Why similar: Automation 21.3%, Space Sim 19.3%, Base Building 14%, Space 10.8%, Crafting 8%
- #27 Rise - The Vieneo Province
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 29 reviews2020
Dev: Unistellar Industries, LLC
Windows
Rise is a persistent science fiction sandbox strategy MMO set on Vieneo, an exomoon about 225 LY from Earth. Use ground, air, and space vehicles to explore this vast open world of 100 million square kilometers in size! You are helping establish a living, breathing world with virtually no boundaries!
Why similar: Colony Sim 14.6%, Mining 13.4% ★, Space Sim 12.3%, Flight 12%, Base Building 8.3%
- #28 Starlab
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Next Star Over
Windows · Linux
Fly from planet to planet, build automated bases, and take on alien swarms on foot or in vehicles. Master your ship’s momentum in a seamless 2D solar system.
Why similar: Mining 16.9% ★, Automation 15.2%, Space Sim 12.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Space 9.3%
- #29 Dungeon D14
80% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2021
Dev: EhtChaos
Windows
You control a small colony in the underground of an unknown planet. Mine resources, build a base, explore the world and technology. Supply your colonists with oxygen, food and energy so that they can carry out their tasks.
Why similar: Mining 24.5% ★, Colony Sim 22.9%, Base Building 15%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #30 ExoColony: Planet Survival
77% matchMixed68% of 28 reviews2025
Dev: Simplemole
Windows · Mac · Linux
Challenging space-colony sim. Guide generations of colonists, raise and educate them, manage resources, and ensure food supply. Maintain a breathable atmosphere, tackle pollution, and refine materials to build essential structures. Terraform planet and build ecosystem to make it your new home.
Why similar: Mining 19.2% ★, Colony Sim 16.5%, Space Sim 12.7%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 9.1%
- #31 Eternal Space
78% match9 user reviews60% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: Freeworld DevelopmentsPub: Studio Grandis
Windows · Mac
Eternal Space is a city builder and space exploration/combat game. Explore the Eternal Space, and manage your city while you fight pirates, or maybe even become a pirate! Keep your citizens happy, and collect taxes from them each year for a little bonus!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Space Sim 16.5%, Flight 15.5%, Building 12.3%, Space 9.6%
- #32 Infinite Space: Mining
76% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Taner Saydam
Windows
Build and automate your own industrial space empire. Mine asteroids, manage logistics, expand production lines with drones and conveyors, explore new sectors through wormholes, and grow your mining operation across the galaxy.
Why similar: Mining 20.1% ★, Automation 18.8%, Space Sim 13%, Space 12.8%, Sci-fi 9.8%
- #33 Reprocessed
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Macrostructura
Windows
Factory management and sandbox base building in zero-g environment. Survive, expand and then dominate space industrial market. Build large scale resource processing plant completely from nothing.
Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Space Sim 13.8%, Building 11.9%, Space 11%
- #34 PoliPlanet
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 20.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 10.9%, Space Sim 10.7%, Crafting 10.7%
- #35 Starfall Protocol
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chaos Systematic
Windows
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, Space Sim 18.7%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 8.4%, Building 8.2%
- #36 Dawn Apart
74% matchMostly Positive70% of 264 reviews2025
Dev: Industrial Technology and WitchcraftPub: Astra Logical
Windows
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, Automation 22.8%, Base Building 16%, Crafting 11.1%, Space 9.5%
- #37 I Fetch Rocks
73% matchVery Positive94% of 124 reviews2025
Dev: SarumXR
Windows
Embark on your asteroid hauling career with Veritago Fortana. Start with a basic ship and earn credits to upgrade, customise and repair as you try to fulfil larger and harder contracts. Built exclusively for VR, use your own hands to build, wire and fly using 100s of interconnecting components.
Why similar: Mining 18.6% ★, Flight 15.5%, Automation 14.7%, Base Building 9.3%, Space 8.6%
- #38 Pinsky Protocol
74% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Colmillo Estelar
Windows
Play as Agent 8085, the most advanced mining AI sent to asteroid 8085 Pinsky. Extract resources, upgrade your systems, and complete missions that affect the future of humanity. Your choices matter: promote unity, extinction, remain neutral. A sci-fi strategy game where your decisions have impact.
Why similar: Automation 22.8%, Mining 19.7% ★, Space Sim 15.3%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 8.6%
- #39 Scraponauts
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AriaMakesGames
Windows
You are a Scraponaut, create your own spaceplane with unique parts each affecting the way your plane behaves. Collect scrap while exploring procedurally generated islands, unlock and discover unique new parts to upgrade your spaceplane.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.4%, Flight 16.4%, Building 13%, Space 12.9%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #40 Space Architect
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 309 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Automation 16.7%, Mining 13.9% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Building 10.1%
- #41 Survival Vacancy
75% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, Automation 16%, Mining 13.8% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Building 10.5%
- #42 CircuitVeil
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tylerlee Burhans
Windows · Linux
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, Automation 21.7%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 9.4%, Sandbox 9%
- #43 The Crust
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,355 reviews2026
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, Automation 19.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Space 12.5%, Building 9.8%
- #44 Oreia
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CRT Glow Studios
Windows
A roguelite automation miner. Every run: dig, deploy robots, lay roads, deploy buildings, expand, refine, defend - and escape before instability tears the site apart. Cargo you don't ship is cargo you lose. Permanent upgrades and new contracts wait at the Corporate Hub™. Sandbox mode included.
Why similar: Mining 26.5% ★, Automation 19.5%, Colony Sim 16%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 8.5%
- #45 Planet Gemini
70% matchPositive90% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: decidonePub: Planet Gemini
Windows
Planet Gemini is a factory-building and tower defense game. After crash-landing on two planets during an interdimensional journey, fend off waves of enemies and research a portal to survive.
Why similar: Mining 20.6% ★, Automation 19.3%, Base Building 13%, Space 9.5%, Crafting 9.2%
- #46 Industry Unbound:无界工业
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TU HENGYU
Windows
A factory automation strategy game on an infinite canvas. Mine resources, route logistics, balance power, supply settlements, and research new technologies to build a self-sustaining planetary industry.
Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Building 17.5%, Base Building 16.2%, Colony Sim 12.8%, Space Sim 9.5%
- #47 One Time In Space
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Elanetic
Windows · Mac
Build and navigate your ship as it barrels through space. Machines, pipes, and wiring; all necessities to keep your ship running. Survive and explore.
Why similar: Mining 19.2% ★, Automation 17.4%, Space Sim 16.6%, Base Building 11%, Space 10.2%
- #48 Moon Rocks and Slimes
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Voided Pixels Studio
Windows
A sci-fi, base-building adventure where you build a 'ship' on an asteroid; explore space, battle slimes, raiders, space rhinos, and more. A story that includes following orders from a mysterious AI, shooting fish with a space grappling hook, invading space stations, fixing the exploded moon, etc.
Why similar: Mining 23% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Space 13.6%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 11.2%
- #49 Benders In Space
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: mendlogamesPub: (mendlogames)
Windows
Mine the belts, colonize distant worlds, and choose your allies as three rival factions fight over a fractured frontier, then prestige through five starships and lead a joint fleet against the invading Dominion.
Why similar: Mining 23% ★, Colony Sim 21.7%, Automation 14.6%, Space Sim 12.5%, Base Building 12.2%
- #50 AstroMiner
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Clay Cube
Windows
AstroMiner is a game about building a mining colony in an asteroid field, starting as a small space station and growing to a sprawling space port.
Why similar: Mining 28% ★, Space Sim 19.3%, Base Building 15.4%, Space 14.9%, Strategy 9.7%
- #51 Wreckborn
68% matchPositive96% of 27 reviews2025
Dev: Krystian Dobaczewski
Windows
Cleanse the system of pirates, destroy their bases and free the captives. On the asteroids, build a base, mining colonies, explore asteroids and extract resources needed for survival. Develop buildings, build defenses and turn the asteroid into a fortress.
Why similar: Automation 16.8%, Colony Sim 16.1%, Space Sim 13.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 10.2%
- #52 AESOS
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SF Factory
Windows
Lead a spaceyard: juggle contracts, design, prototype, and build all types of ships—from single-seat fighters to giant cruisers. Create custom vessels to meet precise client specs, then take the helm yourself to prove their worth.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.5%, Space 16.1%, Building 12.9%, Flight 12.8%, Physics 11.7%
- #53 Rebots
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: FlatPonies
Windows
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: Automation 17.2%, Space Sim 15.3%, Colony Sim 15.1%, Space 10.9%, Base Building 10.8%
- #54 Rocket Engineer
66% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: Xavier B.
Windows
Design custom rockets and master 2D orbital mechanics to navigate a fully simulated solar system. Establish outposts, process local resources to launch interplanetary missions, and manage critical supply lines to keep your colony's workforce alive.
Why similar: Space Sim 20.1%, Flight 15.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Base Building 9.7%, Colony Sim 9.5%
- #55 Celestium
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: alex197
Windows · Linux
An open world survival game set in space.
Why similar: Mining 18.9% ★, Space Sim 16.7%, Space 12.7%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 10%
- #56 SpaceCraft
65% 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: Space Sim 15.8%, Automation 15.1%, Space 12%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 9.4%
- #57 9.8
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Tremoço Games
Windows · Mac
A 2D space agency simulator where every object follows the same orbital physics. Land on moons, build colonies, deploy satellites, and reshape entire planetary systems. Deorbit a moon if you want.
Why similar: Space Sim 20.6%, Flight 13.7%, Space 12.1%, Building 11.5%, Physics 11.1%
- #58 Starground
67% matchVery Positive82% of 191 reviews2024
Dev: Big Boy GamesPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows · Linux
Build a formidable factory and go dungeoning alone or with friends. Solve logic puzzles and automate resource collection and crafting, or venture into dungeons filled with dangers and rewards. Find your own ideal gameplay balance, as any unique path will advance the story!
Why similar: Mining 24.8% ★, Automation 17.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.2%
- #59 AETHUS
64% matchVery Positive95% of 2,081 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
Why similar: Mining 21% ★, Automation 14.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.5%
- #60 Hydroneer
68% matchVery Positive86% of 28,536 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Mining 26.5% ★, Automation 20.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 9.5%