- #1 Cutthroat Cove
97% match5 user reviews0% of 5 reviews2021
Dev: Wicked Games
Windows
Welcome to Cutthroat Cove. Get ready to pillage and plunder, or be prepared to walk the plank. In this open world pirate thriller you can craft, engage in combat with the nasty locals, and follow clues to unlock the secrets of the Old World.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Building 7.1%
- #2 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
96% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Survival 11.2%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #3 Kopno: Blightfall
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Urar Studio
Windows
Play as an Orc—or choose one of six unique races—and survive in a living open-world built on two layers, the Surface and the Underground. Gather resources, hunt, and build your own settlement. Shape your path through moral choices and explore dangerous lands in the cursed continent of Kopno.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.5% ★, Open World 13.3%, Crafting 13.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 12%
- #4 Aground Zero
95% matchVery Positive82% of 122 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Linux
The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion. You will have to mine and build to survive, and search for other survivors to help you. Will you be able to reach the surface? And what will you find when you get there?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Character Customization 9.8%
- #5 Embark
94% matchMixed61% of 386 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.5% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 9.2%, Crafting 8.2%
- #6 HORDE Survival
93% matchMostly Negative29% of 28 reviews2023
Dev: WDS Games
Windows
See yourself stuck in the middle of an ever growing virus epidemic. Find or craft weapons and tools to fight against the living and the dead. Build a safe place to survive in this cruel, apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Base Building 16.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 12%, Open World 11.8%
- #7 Nyric
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lovelace Studio
Windows
Nyric is a third-person survivalcraft where your words shape the world. Type a phrase—“A storm-haunted wasteland”—and step into a procedurally generated realm built from your imagination. Survive harsh climates and strange hazards using Faebots— AI companions with unique powers tied to their moods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 10.1%
- #8 Scavenger T.O.M
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ReLU Games, Inc.
Windows
Scavenger T.O.M is a survival crafting game set in a radiation-contaminated world. Use your exploration robot, T.O.M, to gather resources, craft tools, and survive. With radiation spreading, efficient resource management is key. Plan expeditions strategically and craft wisely to stay alive
Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 11.1%, Side Scroller 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%
- #9 Kenshi
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 110,425 reviews2018
Dev: Lo-Fi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Why similar: Sandbox 17.7%, Open World 17.2%, Survival 13%, Base Building 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%
- #10 Colony Survival
91% matchVery Positive92% of 8,816 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8% ★, Base Building 17%, Survival 11.9%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10%
- #11 Final Frost
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sunrise Lake Studios
Windows
Create your own story from the ashes of civilization, navigating treacherous terrains and fractured societies that have adapted to a harsh new reality. Build a base, forge alliances, or roam freely, battling for survival and shaping your journey with every decision.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 9.8%
- #12 The Black Bahr
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Zeynova Production
Windows
The Black Bahr is a sandbox colony simulation RPG blending ocean exploration, crew management, and dynamic faction politics. Freely chart your course as a pirate, merchant, or honorable captain, shaping your destiny across the open seas.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 11.5%, Survival 10.9%
- #13 TFM: The First Men
88% matchMixed62% of 406 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3% ★, Base Building 19.8%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 9.1%, Open World 7.3%
- #14 Keziah's Realm
87% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: Bonny Studios
Windows
Forage, craft, fight, form clans, and expand your settlements in a dynamic, ever-changing ecosystem. Keziah’s Realm offers a unique gaming experience where you must survive in a rich, procedurally generated world, alongside intelligent NPCs who possess abilities equal to those of the player.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8% ★, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 9.9%, RPG 9.1%, Crafting 9%
- #15 Gelatine
86% matchPositive93% of 29 reviews2022
Dev: Tactical Air Horse
Windows · Linux
A 2D sandbox with a heavy emphasis on action and combat. Features music-synchronized boss fights, village invasions, and more!
Why similar: Sandbox 14.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 11.4%, Building 11%
- #16 Broken World
86% matchMixed67% of 36 reviews2024
Dev: Hunt Studio
Windows
"Broken World" is an exciting post-apocalyptic low-poly game where players have to survive in a world overrun by zombies and chaos. Build and strengthen your shelters, fight various threats and explore a dangerous world full of secrets and dangers.
Why similar: Base Building 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Sandbox 13.6%, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 12.7%
- #17 Cataclysm Upon Us
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 7Dev Studios
Windows · Linux
Cataclysm Upon Us is an open world survival RPG. Craft, fight, and build in a world overrun by mutants, zombies and other abominations. Uncover secrets, embrace mutations and cybernetic enhancements. Every decision shapes your journey in this haunting cataclysm. Can you survive the chaos?
Why similar: Cyberpunk 13.1%, Sandbox 12%, Building 11.4%, Survival 11%, Open World 10.8%
- #18 Sheltered 2
85% matchMixed46% of 2,183 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Survival 12.9%, Building 8.8%
- #19 Surviving Ceres
83% matchVery Positive87% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 13.1%, Survival 11.6%
- #20 A Silent Desolation
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SHK Interactive
Windows
Stranded on post-apocalyptic Earth centuries after humanity's exodus, "A Silent Desolation" is a solo survival game developed by one person. Face dangers, craft, explore, and uncover secrets while repairing a shuttle base to escape.
Why similar: Base Building 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Sandbox 13%, Survival 12%, Crafting 11.8%
- #21 Restart
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 49Wares
Windows
A scientist with great knowledge about humanity ends up back in the Stone Age and has to build a civilization and develop it into the modern age.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 11%, Survival 10.3%
- #22 Rocks Tools Hordes
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Neural Monkeys
Windows · Mac
Rocks, Tools, Hordes is a survival crafting game where a brave little girl explores vast caves, builds her base, and battles endless zombie waves. Play the Demo! Add to Wishlist! Mine resources, craft gear, and pilot powerful robots to withstand the horde. Robots, rocks, and really rude zombies.
Why similar: Survival 15.4%, Sandbox 14.7%, Open World 13.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 13.3%
- #23 Keplerth
81% matchVery Positive85% of 4,121 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
Why similar: Sandbox 18%, Building 15.9%, Survival 14.1%, Open World 13.8%, Exploration 9.7%
- #24 Zodchy
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Try Hard Games
Windows · Mac
Zodchy is a top-down, co-op PvE action game for 1-10 players, set on the volatile surfaces of alien worlds. Drop into short, intense missions, tackle bonus objectives for extra rewards, and extract with valuable loot. Teamwork is your greatest weapon!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #25 Vilset
81% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Building 14.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 11%
- #26 No Man's Island
79% matchMostly Negative38% of 34 reviews2023
Dev: Rif Game StudioPub: ManyDev Studio
Windows
No Man's Island is an uncompromising wilderness survival game. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style. Play your way as you unravel the mysteries of this strange land.
Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 22.4% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 13%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #27 Port Town: Survival
77% matchMixed46% of 26 reviews2025
Dev: Emre ŞahinPub: Survivillage
Windows
A deserted port town, missing people, and a dark secret waiting to be uncovered… Dive into Port Town’s open world, collect mysterious photos, and reveal the truth. But be careful… some secrets are meant to stay buried.
Why similar: Base Building 13.8%, Building 13.3%, Crafting 12%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Sandbox 11.6%
- #28 Oxygen Not Included
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.5% ★, Base Building 21.8%, Survival 13.2%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #29 Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
78% matchMixed63% of 996 reviews2021
Dev: Soaring Pixels Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Survive in a world ravaged by massive Titans and an ever changing ocean sim. Displace water to find resources for building and crafting unique items. Swim, sail, and fly to explore new islands and fight Titans.
Why similar: Building 15.4%, Sandbox 14.9%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 11.7%
- #30 Unrect
79% matchPositive83% of 23 reviews2018
Dev: Sedat GüçPub: Crealode Games
Windows
Build a home for your colony to live in peace, and protect it from aggressive creatures. Command your colonists, strategize your defense and survive the enemy attacks.
Why similar: Base Building 14.3%, Side Scroller 13.9%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 11.6%, Survival 9.6%
- #31 Mistaken
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Storken
Windows · Mac
The world is lost to eldritch mist. No heroes, no grand purpose—only survival. Build, fight, and carve your path through treacherous lands where the remnants of humanity and horrors beyond reason now roam. Survive… or be Mistaken.
Why similar: Base Building 17.4%, Character Customization 11.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 10.7%, Survival 10.2%
- #32 Planet Barren Objective
76% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2022
Dev: Kaan Özgül
Windows
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7% ★, Side Scroller 14.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #33 DISTANT VISITANT
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TriadPixel
Windows
Survive the alien arrival in DISTANT VISITANT, a top-down open-world sandbox. Master talents from marksmanship to cooking while managing hygiene and hydration. Adapt to seasons where winter freezes crops and lakes. Craft, build, hunt, and find survivors. Prepare for them, this is just the start.
Why similar: Base Building 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Sandbox 12.9%, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 12.1%
- #34 Brinefall
76% matchMixed42% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: Qwerty StudioPub: Gamera Interactive
Windows
Embark on an epic journey in Brinefall, where you'll gather resources and construct your own village while exploring a vast open-world filled with secrets and mysteries. Battle fierce enemies and collect valuable loot in this unique blend of sandbox and RPG gameplay.
Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 21.5% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 11.1%
- #35 Woodland Rebels
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Beak Berry Games
Windows · Mac
Survive an untamed world where humans, animal villagers and wild animals all coexist, but not in harmony. Craft, farm, cook, and assign roles to villagers. Explore various biomes and muster an animal rebellion to fight back against human invaders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 12.8%, Survival 11%
- #36 Enshrouded
73% matchVery Positive86% of 98,202 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 44.1 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%, Open World 15.8%, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 13%, Building 9.9%
- #37 The Adventurer’s Trial
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HY Studio
Windows
Every adventurer must face the Trial — a boundless pixel-art sandbox where you can explore, build, mine, farm, and challenge epic bosses. Play solo or with up to 3 friends in thrilling top-down adventures.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.6%, 2D Platformer 16.4%, Crafting 15.1%, Open World 11.9%, Exploration 9.7%
- #38 Lost Zone: Survival
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ykn Studio
Windows
Lost Zone: Survival ,Survive in a vast open world by battling harsh conditions, hunger, and unknown threats. Explore with friends, gather resources, fish, farm, and craft tools to stay alive. Beware of other players who can steal your hard-earned loot. Only the strongest will survive!
Why similar: Base Building 16%, Crafting 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Building 12.4%, Survival 11.3%
- #39 Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
73% matchVery Positive80% of 2,320 reviews2021
Dev: A.Y.stdPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Why similar: Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 13.9%, Sandbox 12.7%, Open World 12.4%, Survival 11.7%
- #40 TopCraft
71% match9 user reviews36% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: ZXC Games
Windows
Topcraft is a free, cross‑platform, top‑down sandbox survival game. Explore procedural worlds, mine and craft gear, build cozy bases, and wire contraptions. Battle roaming creatures, clear dungeons, and shape the land—your tiny blocky frontier, your rules.
Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 31.4% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Open World 13.6%, Colony Sim 12.2% ★, Survival 10.6%
- #41 Squad Zero
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Code Bard Pub: Code Bard
Windows
Squad Zero is a squad-based open-world RPG with survival and strategy elements. The world has fallen to a zombie plague. Gather your squad, explore abandoned towns, scavenge resources, and build a base while the living and the dead fight for survival.
Why similar: Base Building 17.5%, Sandbox 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 12.4%
- #42 Drake Hollow
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,787 reviews2020
Dev: The Molasses FloodPub: CD PROJEKT RED
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Build and defend villages of vegetable folk from deadly feral beasts in the blighted world of The Hollow. Explore, gather, and fight! You can even invite your friends. Can you craft the perfect village?
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Open World 12.9%, Survival 12.7%, Base Building 12.2%
- #43 Settletopia
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 11.3%, Crafting 8.8%
- #44 Unearther
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NaiMann
Windows
Journey into different places and environments in search of resources and valuables. Make tools and equipments, survive the dangers and lurking monsters. Craft your way of living and discover the unknown world hidden in plain sight.
Why similar: Side Scroller 19.3%, Sandbox 14.7%, Character Customization 12.3%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 9.5%
- #45 Founders' Fortune
71% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.3% ★, Base Building 17.3%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 9.7%, Survival 8%
- #46 Raccoon Crafts Factory
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Garden of Dreams
Windows
Raccoon Crafts Factory is a game about creating automated factories to produce things of increasing complexity, within an endless 2D world - Use your imagination to design factories, combine simple elements into complex structures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9% ★, Side Scroller 14.4%, Sandbox 13.4%, 2D Platformer 10.8%, Platformer 9.8%
- #47 Hoglands
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Piggy Games
Windows
Hoglands is a 2D side-scrolling base defense strategy with RPG elements where you with the help of your hero, will be protecting your kingdom against bloodthirsty, undead pigs. Gather resources, build a base, raise an army, improve your hero and lead defense of your lands.
Why similar: Side Scroller 16%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 12.5%, Character Customization 11.1%, Platformer 8.7%
- #48 Sands of Supremacy: Future Kingdom
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Divinus Games
Windows · Mac
Sands of Supremacy is a singleplayer, side-scrolling strategy/resource management hybrid 2D game set in a desert landscape on an unknown, futuristic planet. The game combines survival, strategy, and resource management elements to create a challenging and engaging gameplay experience.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26% ★, Side Scroller 13.3%, Sandbox 12%, Survival 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%
- #49 Over The Ruins
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zircon Games
Windows
Over The Ruins is a post-apocalyptic blacksmith simulator with retro graphics. The player can explore the world, collect resources, create machines, upgrade your house and of course, forge incredibly customizable weapons.
Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 19.3% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Cyberpunk 15.5%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.4%
- #50 Impurity
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Incurso Studios
Windows
Build and lead a settlement in a ruthless dark fantasy world. Command companions, explore shifting open world lands, and navigate rival settlements - trading, allying, or waging war. Walk the path of light or corruption as you endure relentless seasons and ancient horrors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 10.1%
- #51 SUGA: Survival Game
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SeXtant
Windows
SUGA is a 2D Multiplayer SUrvival GAme set in a post-apocalyptic future where you and up to 4 friends explore a procedural world fighting enemies by night and building up bases by day.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.6%, Survival 13%, Character Customization 10.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Exploration 10.1%
- #52 Kingdom of the Untitled Magic
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Untitled Magic Studio
Windows
Hovering Lands is a survival game. Explore the post-apocalyptic world and its inhabitants. Resurrect the vanished humanity and build a new home for them on the Hovering Lands.
Why similar: Idler 20.7%, Post-apocalyptic 17.6%, Sandbox 12.6%, Survival 12.2%, Colony Sim 12.1% ★
- #53 Edge Islands
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6% ★, Base Building 19.6%, Building 14.8%, Sandbox 12.6%, Survival 8.3%
- #54 Junk Survivor
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 78 reviews2023
Dev: Neojac Entertainment Inc.
Windows
Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive. With a vast map to explore, a robust skillset to unlock this customizable sandbox awaits the adventurer. How long before you die!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Survival 12.8%, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 11.6%, Building 11.1%
- #55 From Nothing
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Power Hobo Games
Windows
Build systems, sustain life, and transform a barren moon into a living world. In this 2D survival-crafting RPG, preparation and infrastructure matter more than reflexes... because when the winter eclipse comes, only what you’ve built will keep you alive.
Why similar: Base Building 20.5%, Survival 14.6%, Open World 12.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, Exploration 10.8%
- #56 New Spring: Survival
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Promination Studios
Windows
New Spring is a open world zombie survival RPG where you spend the daytime exploring and scavenging for tools and weapons, and defend your base when night falls. How long can you stave off the hordes?
Why similar: Sandbox 14.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Open World 12.6%, Building 12.5%, Crafting 11.7%
- #57 Monument
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mniszeko
Windows
Monument is a co-op or solo survival game set in a harsh zombie apocalypse. Scavenge, fight, and survive against the undead and dangerous humans. How far will you go to survive?
Why similar: Sandbox 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Building 13%, Crafting 12.6%, Base Building 12.2%
- #58 Dao's Cover
66% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Beijing Baidong Technology
Windows
An unconventional post-apocalyptic survival sandbox game. Abandon endless combat and embrace a more authentic living experience in the apocalypse.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 14.2%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 10.6%