- #1 Forever Skies
97% matchMostly Positive78% of 8,950 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 17%, Crafting 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features a similar post-apocalyptic atmosphere with a focus on maintaining a mobile airship base in a ruined world.
- #2 The Planet Crafter
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Base Building 16.2%, Automation 15.6%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 10.5%, Open World 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on terraforming and automation to transform a desolate landscape into a habitable environment.
- #3 Subnautica
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 378,847 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 18.5%, Base Building 18%, Crafting 15.8%, Open World 15.3%, Sandbox 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive underwater survival experience that mirrors the drowned world setting and resource-gathering loop.
- #4 Sunkenland
95% matchVery Positive80% of 23,803 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 12.5%, Open World 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: A water-based survival game that emphasizes scavenging, base building, and defending against threats.
- #5 Raft
94% matchVery Positive93% of 377,470 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 30.4%, Crafting 20.7%, Base Building 18.5%, Open World 14.7%, Sandbox 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on survival and base expansion while navigating a vast, flooded ocean environment.
- #6 Aloft
94% matchVery Positive84% of 3,682 reviews2025
Dev: Astrolabe Interactive Inc.Pub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 26.2% ★, Crafting 18.5%, Survival 15.2%, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features floating island survival with atmospheric exploration and systems management.
- #7 Satisfactory
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 278,339 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 112.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 24.1%, Base Building 19.7%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 10.6%, Resource Management 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep first-person automation and base-building experience in a sprawling alien world.
- #8 Voidtrain
92% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,810 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 20%, Crafting 16.6%, Survival 15.6%, Open World 13.4%, Sandbox 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines first-person survival with a modular, moving base that evolves as you explore.
- #9 Techtonica
91% matchMixed65% of 3,253 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 21.9%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 10%, Resource Management 9.3%, Immersive Sim 9%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory-building game set in a subterranean alien world with a focus on automation.
- #10 Pacific Drive
91% matchVery Positive83% of 26,666 reviews2024
Dev: Ironwood StudiosPub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Survival 15.6%, Crafting 15.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Sandbox 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique first-person survival experience centered on vehicle maintenance and resource management in a hazardous environment.
- #11 StarRupture
89% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 19.8%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 10%
Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building and automation with open-world survival in a dynamic environment.
- #12 Stationeers
90% matchVery Positive88% of 9,229 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 85.3 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: Automation 19.3%, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 10.2%, Resource Management 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers complex, hardcore automation and survival systems for players who enjoy deep technical management.
- #13 Breathedge
89% matchVery Positive81% of 17,661 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 18.9%, Survival 15.1%, Sandbox 15%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A space-based survival game that emphasizes scavenging and crafting to survive in a hostile vacuum.
- #14 Astrometica
88% matchVery Positive83% of 3,181 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 19.1%, Crafting 14.2%, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 13%, Open World 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on space-based survival and exploration with a first-person perspective.
- #15 ASTRONEER
87% matchVery Positive92% of 139,015 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Base Building 17.3%, Open World 15.5%, Survival 15.4%, Automation 12.2%, Sandbox 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on sandbox exploration and base building with a unique aesthetic and resource-management loop.
- #16 ICARUS
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 20.9%, Crafting 18.5%, Open World 14.5%, Sandbox 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that requires careful resource management and crafting to survive harsh environments.
- #17 Eden Crafters
85% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 23.3%, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 11%, Open World 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on automation and terraforming to make an alien planet habitable.
- #18 The Crust
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,724 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 11.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, Management 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features automation and colony management on the moon with a focus on resource extraction.
- #19 Lightyear Frontier
84% matchVery Positive84% of 4,679 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 16%, Crafting 13.8%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 9.7%, Open World 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A peaceful open-world farming and exploration game featuring mech-based base building.
- #20 No Man's Sky
84% matchVery Positive85% of 414,381 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World 23.3%, Survival 15.1%, Sandbox 13.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Sci-fi 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an expansive universe for survival, base building, and technological progression.
- #21 Survival: Fountain of Youth
83% matchVery Positive85% of 4,480 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 15.7%, Survival 14.6%, Sandbox 11.3%, Open World 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy survival game with deep crafting and historical mystery elements.
- #22 Occupy Mars: The Game
82% matchMixed70% of 3,132 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 17.1%, Crafting 14.3%, Resource Management 11.7%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A technical survival game that emphasizes base building and resource management on a harsh planet.
- #23 Grounded
81% matchVery Positive90% of 95,505 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 41.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Why similar: Survival 26.7%, Base Building 25.9%, Crafting 18.5%, Open World 13.2%, Sandbox 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features intricate first-person base building and survival mechanics in a highly detailed open world.
- #24 Heat Death: Survival Train
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 718 reviews2024
Dev: Mass Game DevsPub: LightOnDevs
Windows
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 16.4%, Crafting 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, Survival 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game centered on maintaining a moving base in a frozen world.
- #25 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
81% matchVery Positive82% of 10,429 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Base Building 22.5%, Crafting 17.8%, Survival 17.5%, Open World 14.6%, Sandbox 13.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and crafting with a unique perspective and deep base-building mechanics.
- #26 Dyson Sphere Program
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,542 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 75.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 28.9%, Base Building 20.3%, Resource Management 11.4%, Open World 10.4%, Sandbox 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A massive-scale automation game that focuses on resource management and building across multiple planets.
- #27 Valheim
79% matchVery Positive94% of 540,690 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.0 hrsMean: 78.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 19%, Sandbox 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival, crafting, and building with a strong sense of progression and exploration.
- #28 Space Trash Scavenger
79% matchVery Positive84% of 525 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 23.1%, Crafting 14.4%, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on scavenging and base building in space with a focus on automation and survival.
- #29 Blossom: The Seed of Life
77% matchVery Positive88% of 1,019 reviews2026
Dev: Pebbledust GamesPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Base Building 14.7%, Automation 14.6%, Crafting 11%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #30 Astro Colony
77% matchVery Positive81% of 2,699 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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%, Base Building 21.6%, Resource Management 12.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 9%
- #31 Solarpunk™
76% matchVery Positive82% of 4,341 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Automation 17.9%, Base Building 17%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 10.8%
- #32 Green Hell
78% matchVery Positive85% of 101,308 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Survival 24.8%, Crafting 17.9%, Base Building 16.7%, Open World 15%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a realistic and challenging survival experience with deep crafting and resource management.
- #33 Sandustry
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,449 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Automation 19.5%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 11.4%, Open World 10%
- #34 JUNKPUNK
78% matchMixed62% of 687 reviews2021
Dev: SCT
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 25.3%, Crafting 16.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Immersive Sim 11.2%, Management 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A simulation game centered on cleaning up a post-apocalyptic world through crafting and automation.
- #35 The Last Plague: Blight
75% matchVery Positive89% of 1,472 reviews2024
Dev: Original Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world, uncover the origins of a mysterious disease, and become humanity’s final hope of ending the Blight.
Why similar: Base Building 20.1%, Crafting 15.7%, Resource Management 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Sandbox 12.3%
- #36 VEIN
74% matchVery Positive88% of 12,003 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 17.6%, Survival 15.4%, Open World 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Crafting 11.1%
- #37 Space Engineers 2
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 5,449 reviews2025
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 16%, Open World 14.4%, Crafting 14%, Physics 12.3%
- #38 MineMogul
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,237 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 23.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 9.4%, Management 9.2%
- #39 Volcanoids
76% matchVery Positive83% of 9,332 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 16.9%, Sandbox 13.8%, Survival 12.8%, Open World 12%
- #40 SpaceCraft
73% matchMixed65% of 2,687 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 47.3 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: Automation 17.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 11.3%
- #41 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
72% matchVery Positive85% of 4,645 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Open World 13.2%
- #42 ALL WILL FALL
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,385 reviews2026
Dev: All Parts ConnectedPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Base Building 17.4%, Automation 16.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Sandbox 11%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #43 The Alters
70% matchVery Positive90% of 19,420 reviews2025
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 10.8 hrsMean: 16.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Experience an award-winning, story-driven sci-fi survival game. Help Jan Dolski, the survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoil with his unconventional crew.
Why similar: Base Building 24.6%, Survival 18.1%, Management 15.2%, Crafting 12.6%, Resource Management 11.8%
- #44 Deep Crafter
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 106 reviews2026
Dev: Deep Crafter StudioPub: Samar Studio
Windows
Build a self-sustaining industrial empire in the deep sea of an ocean-covered alien world. Explore procedurally generated waters, automate resource production, and turn alien life into renewable industrial output through advanced bio-cultivation systems.
Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Base Building 13.8%, Open World 12.6%, Sandbox 10.7%, Immersive Sim 8.7%
- #45 Hardspace: Shipbreaker
70% matchVery Positive89% of 22,322 reviews2022
Dev: Blackbird Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 23.6%, Physics 22.8%, Sci-fi 20.3%, Simulation 12.5%, First-Person 10.3%
- #46 Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
73% matchMixed62% of 1,000 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: Sailing 25.2% ★, Survival 13.4%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 12.6%, Crafting 12.2%
- #47 AETHUS
69% matchVery Positive95% of 2,015 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.6 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: Automation 19%, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 14.4%, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 11.7%
- #48 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
69% matchVery Positive91% of 7,602 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 19.1%, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 10.6%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #49 Stormworks: Build and Rescue
69% matchVery Positive91% of 59,745 reviews2020
Dev: Geometa
Windows · Mac
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 113.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Sailing 21.4% ★, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 11.3%, Open World 8.9%
- #50 Space Haven
67% matchVery Positive86% of 11,081 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Sandbox 11.1%, Survival 11%, Management 10.6%
- #51 Under A New Sun
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 400 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
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 17.9%, Survival 16.5%, Open World 15.8%, Sandbox 9%
- #52 FOUNDRY
68% matchVery Positive81% of 3,918 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 20.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 13.2%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sandbox 11%
- #53 Penkura
71% matchVery Positive91% of 200 reviews2018
Dev: LionsArt
Windows
Penkura is a sci-fi base-building survival game where you construct a colony from a top-down command system, explore an alien world in first person, and use programmable bots to gather resources, build, repair, and keep your base alive.
Why similar: Automation 17.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Lore-Rich 10.1%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #54 ASTROBOTANICA
68% matchMixed68% of 98 reviews2026
Dev: Space Goblin Studio
Windows
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%, Survival 15.6%, Crafting 15.6%, Open World 14.2%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #55 Escape The Pacific
71% matchMixed67% of 761 reviews2018
Dev: Gamers4Gamers Team
Windows
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 26.5% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 11.1%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #56 Surviving Ceres
67% matchVery Positive87% of 139 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: Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 16.8%, Survival 14.1%, Open World 12%, Management 10.9%
- #57 DrainSim
65% matchVery Positive92% of 2,544 reviews2026
Dev: CodePeas
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 25.4%, Immersive Sim 18.6%, Physics 18.3%, First-Person 14%, Simulation 13%
- #58 Star Crafter
68% matchMixed70% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
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 17.9%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 14%, Resource Management 11.4%, Survival 8.5%
- #59 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,709 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 17.8%, Survival 14%, Crafting 13.8%, Open World 11.8%, Automation 10.9%
- #60 Project Castaway
66% matchMixed66% of 1,849 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 16.4%, Sandbox 16%, Crafting 15%, Open World 14.4%
