Games Like TerraTech

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 29.5% ★, Building 14.4%, Sandbox 12.2%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This direct follow-up expands TerraTech's modular vehicle building into a new open-world survival-crafting setting with co-op exploration.

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Building 24.3%, Sandbox 16.9%, Open World 14.1%, Crafting 12.5%, Multiplayer 9%

Why You'll Like It: Its deep mechanical building system lets you create functional vehicles and machines for a colorful survival sandbox with friends.

Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.

Why similar: Building 16.6%, Sandbox 13.5%, Open World 11.2%, Vehicular Combat 11.1%, Crafting 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Build wheeled vehicles, aircraft, boats, and other contraptions from blocks, then use them in physics-heavy exploration, races, and co-op adventures.

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: Building 22.4%, Sandbox 18.2%, Open World 15.6%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Survival 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers far more technical block-based construction for rovers, ships, and bases, alongside sandbox survival and planetary exploration.

Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.

Why similar: Building 24.7%, Sandbox 18.9%, Vehicular Combat 15.5%, Crafting 13.5%, Multiplayer 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Design extraordinarily detailed land, sea, air, and space vehicles and test them in a large-scale physics-driven combat sandbox.

Do whatever you want in a physics sandbox full of chaotic destruction, endless player-made creations and unpredictable adventures. Build, destroy, roleplay and mess around solo or with friends!

Why similar: Building 29.7%, Sandbox 27.7%, Open World 19.8%, Multiplayer 13%, Physics 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its fully physics-based brick vehicle builder supports everything from cars and tanks to aircraft, with destruction-heavy sandbox play.

Crossout - the postapocalyptic MMO action game where you can create a unique design for an armoured vehicle from dozens of parts and then drive it into multiplayer battles raging on land and in the skies alike.

Why similar: Building 19.1%, Vehicular Combat 18.3%, Sandbox 15.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Multiplayer 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: This vehicle-combat MMO revolves around salvaging parts and constructing personalized armored cars for online battles.

Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Building 17.9%, Sandbox 17%, Open World 12.4%, Survival 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Construct functional vehicles with detailed engines, systems, and controls, then use them across a large open-world rescue sandbox.

Besiege is a physics building game about constructing medieval machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!

Why similar: Building 28.3%, Sandbox 23.5%, Vehicular Combat 17.7%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Physics 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same iterative build-test-improve satisfaction through customizable medieval war machines and physics-based destruction.

The main purpose of this game is showing and watching machines made out of blocks. Some of the game-modes allow you to battle or race against other players. (testing phase) You can create your original machine with ease by reassembling those machines that are distributed, or by using the automatic control block.

Why similar: Building 36.7%, Sandbox 28.2%, Robots 15.3%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Open World 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox lets you assemble transformable robotic machines and vehicles, then fight or experiment with them online.

Crash through walls and tear down buildings in Instruments of Destruction, a vehicle-action game featuring advanced physics-based demolition. Pilot 130+ unique vehicles across scores of challenge-packed missions or design your own contraptions and wreck highly-interactive sandbox worlds.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 57%, Physics 26.8%, Action 11.8%, Singleplayer 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Build purpose-made demolition machines from modular components, then experiment with physics and destruction across open-ended missions.

Explore a world of creative building, interactive machines, and gears - lots of gears. Build all things mechanical: cars, trucks, cranes, tanks, gearboxes, engines, clocks, anything you can think of. Test your creations to destruction in challenging scenarios, and share them in the workshop!

Why similar: Building 37.3%, Sandbox 26.3%, Open World 13.9%, Physics 9.5%, Third Person 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: This engineering sandbox emphasizes building mechanically functional vehicles from parts, gears, engines, and structural components.

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: Building 29.8%, Sandbox 24.7%, Open World 19.9%, Vehicular Combat 13.5%, Exploration 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its voxel ship construction, exploration, trading, combat, and progression provide a spacious sci-fi counterpart to TerraTech's loop.

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 34.8% ★, Open World 13%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.8%, Multiplayer 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its gentler survival sandbox emphasizes co-op planetary exploration, resource gathering, base building, and vehicle-assisted discovery.

Carefully balance mobility, firepower and armour in a dedicated tank designer. Then uncarefully put them to the test in a series of combat scenarios progressing through the ages of the tank. Here, your limit is what you can fit inside your hull and turret while still being able to move forwards.

Why similar: Building 36.3%, Sandbox 31%, Vehicular Combat 21%, Physics 6.3%, Third Person 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on designing custom tanks from the ground up, then testing their armor, mobility, and guns in combat scenarios.

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 29.5% ★, Building 15.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Build ground vehicles, capital ships, and bases while surviving, crafting, exploring planets, and fighting across a galaxy.

Developed by the creator of the original Kerbal Space Program, KitHack Model Club is a physics-based model building sandbox that offers limitless freedom for you and your friends. Design, build, battle, fly (and crash!) your very own RC vehicles, or experiment with over 2,400 ready-made vehicles!

Why similar: Building 20.6%, Sandbox 17.2%, Open World 15.7%, Vehicular Combat 15.3%, Crafting 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: Create and tune custom RC planes, cars, boats, and experimental machines for a playful physics sandbox with multiplayer options.

A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.

Why similar: Building 43.6%, Sandbox 29.8%, Open World 10.3%, Strategy 5.2%, Action 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: Build modular spacecraft from parts, explore a hostile galaxy, and grow your custom fleet through combat and salvage.

Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!

Why similar: Building 39%, Multiplayer 14.5%, Survival 14%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Exploration 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Design a working starship room by room, manage its crew and systems, and take it into tactical battles and exploration.

Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.

Why similar: Building 38.2%, Sandbox 25.5%, Open World 13.2%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Action 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It brings freeform block construction to an expansive space sandbox where player-made ships can be explored, flown, and fought.

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: Building 25.2%, Sandbox 20.9%, Open World 15.6%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It modernizes the block-built spacecraft and rover sandbox formula with advanced construction tools and physics experimentation.

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 36.8% ★, Sandbox 15.9%, Open World 12.5%, Building 9.9%, Crafting 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It blends open-world survival, resource gathering, combat, and extensive voxel construction including player-made vehicles.

Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.

Why similar: Robots 21.7%, Building 15.6%, Sandbox 12.7%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Build programmable modular drones and refine them for combat, exploration, and survival across procedural space missions.

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: Building 20.8%, Sandbox 17.4%, Crafting 14.4%, Open World 13.9%, Survival 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This survival game combines crafting and combat with building and upgrading a mobile drillship that acts as your moving base.

Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode.

Why similar: Building 37.2%, Sandbox 24.4%, Open World 20.6%, Physics 8.3%, Exploration 6%

Why You'll Like It: Design and pilot custom rockets, planes, rovers, and spacecraft in a creative aerospace sandbox with realistic simulation elements.

In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.

Why similar: Sandbox 36.2%, Building 29.6%, Open World 13.3%, Physics 11.2%, Exploration 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its vehicle assembly and trial-and-error engineering create a similarly rewarding loop of designing, launching, crashing, and improving machines.

FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.9% ★, Building 15.5%, Sandbox 13.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its large-scale crafting, exploration, automated systems, and base development suit players who enjoy TerraTech's resource-driven progression.

Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!

Why similar: Building 39.9%, Vehicular Combat 30.4%, Multiplayer 15.4%, PvP 9.6%, Strategy 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Design custom modular airships and land vehicles, then send them into strategic physics-based battles and conquest campaigns.

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 30.1% ★, Building 15.9%, Sandbox 13.8%, Open World 11.4%, Crafting 10.8%

Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 9%, Building 8.6%

Crazy physics and high-speed races! Craft vehicles cleverly by combining building blocks and mechanical parts to create powerful drivetrains. Unlock new parts, race for the gold, and challenge your friends in multiplayer.

Why similar: Building 40.2%, Crafting 22.3%, Multiplayer 17%, Physics 10.7%, PvP 3.7%

Feel the adrenaline as you control your unique tank in multiplayer arcade action! Build your ultimate war machine from over a million different combinations. Now, will you go for the rumbling caterpillar tracks or the crawling spider legs?

Why similar: Robots 32.7%, Building 23.8%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Open World 5.6%

TerraTech Legion, a chaotic Bullet Heaven Builder. Build the ultimate battle vehicle block by block and survive waves of robotic foes, ramming them at speed and shooting infinite projectiles.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 41.1%, Crafting 36.8%, Survival 16.8%, Action 5.2%

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 9.5%

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: Building 21.9%, Open World Survival Craft 18.1% ★, Open World 15.6%, Sandbox 14.8%, Robots 11.8%

Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Building 25.2%, Sandbox 17.2%, Open World 6.7%, Multiplayer 6.5%

Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!

Why similar: Building 28.9%, Sandbox 20.5%, Open World 15%, Crafting 9.8%, Multiplayer 8.2%

Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming. Create your own bases, defenses, manufacturing systems and more. Explore the map and expand the scope and complexity of your creations.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Building 23%, Robots 16%, Sandbox 13.9%, Survival 9.5%

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 23% ★, Building 17.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Robots 9%, Open World 7.9%

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Sandbox 15.5%, Building 12%, Crafting 8.2%, Multiplayer 6.7%

In SAND you build your highly customizable walking mech fortress. Squad up or go solo. Scavenge the dunes, gather loot, weapons, priceless artifacts, survive and extract. Clash with other players in a brutal procedurally generated desert set in an alternate 1910.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 26.3%, Open World 25.8%, Survival 15.7%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, PvP 9.6%

Behold, the miracle of life… packed into cubes! Create fantastic creatures in an open-world sandbox game like no other. Explore, craft, and survive—all with the help of your very own creations.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Building 15.3%, Sandbox 14.2%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 9%

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.6% ★, Sandbox 11%, Building 10.5%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 7.9%

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: Building 24.4%, Sandbox 18.6%, Open World 17.2%, Crafting 15.3%, Survival 9.2%

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: Sandbox 27.2%, Building 23.5%, Open World 19%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Crafting 9.1%

Unleash your creativity and strategic prowess in Forts, the exhilarating physics-based RTS! Design, construct, and customize imposing fortresses, bristling with devastating firepower, and blast your opponent’s buildings to rubble!

Why similar: Building 34.8%, Sandbox 24.9%, Multiplayer 16.9%, Physics 10.1%, Strategy 6.5%

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 34.9% ★, Open World 12%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 8.8%

Clone Drone in the Danger Zone is a robot voxel slice-em-up where any part of your body can be sliced off. With your mind downloaded into a robot gladiator, you must survive the sinister trials of the arena.

Why similar: Robots 49.9%, Multiplayer 16%, Survival 10.3%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Third Person 5.8%

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 32.1% ★, Building 12.8%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 9.2%

Build airplanes by snapping parts together, designing wing sections, and attaching engines. At any time, you can strap yourself into the cockpit and see how it flies with realistic physics. If you're not in the mood for building, over 100,000 airplanes are available to download for free.

Why similar: Building 26.7%, Sandbox 22.2%, Open World 16.4%, Vehicular Combat 14.9%, Physics 7.4%

Explore, Adventure, Craft, Build, Survive. How will you shape your world? Astral Terra is a Smooth Voxel, Procedurally Generated Open World game with RPG and Survival Elements!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Sandbox 13.5%, Open World 12.8%, Building 12.5%, Survival 7.5%

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 43.8% ★, Open World 13.7%, Sandbox 12.9%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 8.6%

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 34.5% ★, Building 16%, Open World 10.7%, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 10%

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: Sandbox 25.8%, Crafting 18.6%, Building 17.2%, Open World 13.4%, Multiplayer 9.9%

Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.7% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 11.7%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 8%

Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.7%, Open World 9.4%