Games Like The Last Caretaker

A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.

Why similar: Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 14%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same atmospheric, high-altitude scavenging and base-building loop within a post-apocalyptic sci-fi setting.

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: Automation 16.3%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 10.3%, Open World 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: The core gameplay loop of terraforming and restoring a hostile environment aligns perfectly with the system-restoration focus of the seed game.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Survival 18.4%, Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 15.8%, Open World 15.1%, Sandbox 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive survival experience set in a vast, mysterious, and beautiful drowned world that perfectly mirrors the setting of The Last Caretaker.

Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?

Why similar: Base Building 22.1%, Survival 19.6%, Crafting 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Open World 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: It directly tackles the 'drowned Earth' theme with a heavy emphasis on scavenging, base-building, and defending against threats.

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Survival 30.2%, Crafting 20.8%, Base Building 18.5%, Open World 14.6%, Sandbox 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: As a quintessential survival game set in a flooded world, it shares the core challenge of building a base while scavenging resources from the ocean.

Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.

Why similar: Base Building 19.1%, Survival 18%, Open World 15.1%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This standalone expansion refines the drowned-world survival mechanics with a stronger focus on narrative and environmental interaction.

In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.

Why similar: Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 13.6%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: The use of mechs for farming and restoring a planet provides a similar satisfying progression of cleaning and rebuilding a world.

Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.

Why similar: Sailing 26.4% ★, Crafting 18.4%, Survival 15%, Sandbox 11.8%, Open World 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focusing on floating islands and atmospheric restoration, it shares the sense of wonder and technical maintenance found in the seed game.

Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.

Why similar: Crafting 15.4%, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Sandbox 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at building a unique, atmospheric survival experience centered around maintaining and upgrading a vital piece of equipment.

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Base Building 19.8%, Crafting 16.5%, Survival 15.6%, Open World 13.2%, Sandbox 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a surreal, atmospheric survival experience where you scavenge and build upon a moving base in a sci-fi void.

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: Base Building 19.1%, Survival 14.9%, Sandbox 14.9%, Crafting 13.4%, Sci-fi 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This space-based survival game features a similar first-person scavenging loop and a focus on repairing broken systems.

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: Base Building 24%, Survival 20.6%, Crafting 18.6%, Open World 14.2%, Sandbox 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a session-based survival experience with a heavy emphasis on scavenging, crafting, and establishing bases on a hostile planet.

Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 9.7%, Resource Management 9.5%, Immersive Sim 9%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on underground base-building and automation with a sci-fi narrative aligns well with the technical restoration themes.

Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Base Building 21.2%, Resource Management 13.3%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines space-based colony survival with automation, mirroring the goal of managing resources to sustain humanity.

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Base Building 17.1%, Resource Management 12.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim focuses on resource gathering and base-building on the moon, sharing the technical management themes.

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: Automation 24%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes automation and terraforming, making it a strong choice for those who enjoy the world-restoration elements.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Base Building 19.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 10.3%, Resource Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: For players who enjoy the 'restoring systems' aspect, this game provides deep automation and base-building mechanics in a sci-fi setting.

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Automation 19.8%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Resource Management 10.4%, Sandbox 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is a perfect match for players who enjoy the complex system management and technical repair aspects of the seed game.

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: Automation 23.9%, Crafting 14.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It leans heavily into the scavenging aspect of survival, requiring players to manage resources in a dangerous space environment.

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Base Building 19.1%, Crafting 16.8%, Sandbox 13.9%, Survival 12.6%, Open World 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: The unique mechanic of a mobile, drill-based base provides a fresh take on the survival-crafting genre.

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Base Building 29.8%, Survival 20.6%, Crafting 16.9%, Management 10.6%, Resource Management 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a more tactical approach to survival and base-building on a hostile, uncharted planet.

Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.

Why similar: Base Building 19.4%, Crafting 15.6%, Survival 14.4%, Sandbox 11.4%, Open World 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a hardcore survival experience with a strong focus on exploration and crafting in a challenging environment.

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

Why similar: Open World 22.9%, Survival 15%, Sandbox 13.5%, Sci-fi 11.5%, Crafting 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: The expansive exploration and base-building mechanics across diverse alien worlds offer the same sense of scale and discovery.

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: Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 13.7%, Resource Management 12.5%, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: The technical survival and base-building mechanics require careful resource management and system maintenance.

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Base Building 21.4%, Survival 20.7%, Crafting 19.2%, Open World 18.7%, Sandbox 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It excels at atmospheric exploration and base-building, providing a rewarding sense of progression through environmental mastery.

The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world and uncover the origins of a mysterious disease. You are humanity’s final hope in ending the Blight

Why similar: Base Building 24%, Survival 19.1%, Sandbox 17.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Resource Management 15.2%

Why You'll Like It: The realistic survival and crafting mechanics in a harsh, post-apocalyptic environment provide a similar tone and challenge.

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: Base Building 19.8%, Automation 17.1%, Crafting 15.5%, Sandbox 13.5%, Survival 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: The sandbox building and exploration mechanics allow for creative problem-solving in a hostile alien environment.

Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!

Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 10.5%, Open World 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It blends automation and base-building, providing a structured progression for players who enjoy building systems.

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: Automation 20.3%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 10.2%, Open World 9.7%

JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.

Why similar: Automation 26%, Crafting 16.3%, Base Building 12%, Immersive Sim 11.2%, Management 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on scavenging and base-building in a post-apocalyptic setting mirrors the core loop of the seed game.

Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.

Why similar: Automation 19.8%, Crafting 14%, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 12.7%, Open World 12.3%

Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.

Why similar: Automation 15.2%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Sandbox 9.7%

VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.

Why similar: Base Building 17.3%, Survival 14.9%, Open World 14%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Crafting 11.1%

You are the lone survivor orbiting a potential new home planet, tethered to what’s left of your ship. Gather nearby debris and assemble a make-shift vessel in an attempt to survive the harsh realities of space. Maybe you'll live long enough to uncover the truth behind the ship's malfunction...

Why similar: Base Building 19.8%, Crafting 17.9%, Survival 14.2%, Sandbox 11.8%, Physics 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This space survival game focuses on technical repair and resource management, similar to the system-restoration tasks.

Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!

Why similar: Automation 24%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.4%, Resource Management 9.4%, Management 9.3%

Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!

Why similar: Base Building 16.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Crafting 15.2%, Lore-Rich 12.9%, Survival 11.8%

Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.

Why similar: Sandbox 17.8%, Survival 15.8%, Open World 14%, Crafting 13.9%, Physics 12.6%

I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!

Why similar: Crafting 17.3%, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 14.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Open World 13%

Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.

Why similar: Base Building 24.1%, Survival 17.6%, Management 15.6%, Crafting 12.7%, Resource Management 12.3%

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: Automation 19.8%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 10.3%, Sandbox 9.6%

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: Automation 17.7%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 12.8%, Resource Management 10.8%, Sandbox 10.5%

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: Automation 22.9%, Base Building 22.8%, Sandbox 17.4%, Management 11.2%, Sci-fi 10.8%

Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 13%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 10.9%

While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!

Why similar: Crafting 17.9%, Base Building 17.8%, Survival 16.4%, Open World 15.5%, Sandbox 9.1%

A casual heavy equipment experience. Mine ore, Move dirt, Build and repair.

Why similar: Sandbox 17.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Management 10.6%, Simulation 8.3%

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: Base Building 17.6%, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 13.7%, Open World 11.5%, Automation 11.4%

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: Sailing 25.4% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Survival 13.2%, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 12.2%

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Automation 17.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Sandbox 11.2%, Resource Management 9.7%

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Base Building 16.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Sandbox 11%, Management 10.9%, Survival 10.8%

Science-driven exploration adventure on prehistoric Earth with a relaxing vibe. Farming, crafting, puzzle-solving, and exploration on Prehistoric Earth, where you arrive as an alien botanist who is very good at plant research, but... can't breathe oxygen.

Why similar: Base Building 19.4%, Crafting 15.6%, Survival 15.5%, Open World 14%, Sandbox 10.5%

A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.

Why similar: Automation 18.5%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 13.8%, Resource Management 11.7%, Survival 8.3%

Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

Why similar: Sandbox 23.3%, Physics 22.6%, Sci-fi 20.3%, Simulation 12.7%, First-Person 10.3%

Command the checkpoint in a collapsing city. Screen survivors, manage scarce resources, and hold back the undead. Every choice matters and one mistake could unleash the plague beyond your walls.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21.3%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 14.5%, Management 12.3%, Immersive Sim 11.5%

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: Automation 21.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Resource Management 12.3%, Sandbox 11.8%

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: Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 16.6%, Survival 14%, Open World 11.7%, Management 11.2%

Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!

Why similar: Sailing 26.7% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 10.8%, Sandbox 10.5%

Craft your workshop as an alchemist!‌ Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. ‌Multiplayer Supported!‌ Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!

Why similar: Automation 33.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 14.4%, Sandbox 14.2%, Resource Management 8.5%

A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.

Why similar: Base Building 17.6%, Crafting 17.4%, Survival 15.3%, Management 11.5%, Open World 8.6%

Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.

Why similar: Base Building 19.9%, Survival 16.3%, Sandbox 16.2%, Crafting 15%, Open World 14.2%

Dive into DrainSim and seize control of the floods! Clear the city's submerged streets, with a huge range of different tools from rakes to submersible pumps. Embrace the satisfaction of restoring the water flow. Become the city's hero, one drain at a time.

Why similar: Sandbox 24.9%, Immersive Sim 18.7%, Physics 18.2%, First-Person 14.4%, Simulation 12.9%