Games Like The Last Caretaker

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 15.3%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the core loop of transforming a hostile, barren world into a habitable environment through survival and crafting.

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 12%, Survival 12%, Open World 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar first-person post-apocalyptic survival theme set above a ruined, ecological disaster-stricken Earth.

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 21.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 10.1%, Resource Management 9.2%, Immersive Sim 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes underground resource automation, factory building, and large-scale industrial progression.

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 22.8%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 13.9%, Sandbox 11%, Open World 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on terraforming and automation mechanics in open-world survival-crafting environments.

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 19.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 10.5%, Open World 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building, automation, and survival on a volatile open-world alien planet.

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 18.7%, Base Building 17.9%, Crafting 15.8%, Open World 15.5%, Sandbox 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the deep underwater exploration and resource gathering of a drowned world combined with base building.

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: Automation 19.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 13.3%, Resource Management 10.6%, Open World 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Blends open-world exploration, crafting, and resource management with a peaceful mecha-piloting atmosphere.

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 17.5%, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 11%

Why You'll Like It: Features eco-friendly base building, crafting, and automation in a beautiful open world.

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 30.6%, Crafting 20.6%, Base Building 18.3%, Open World 14.8%, Sandbox 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on survival and expansion on a vast, endless ocean where you scavenge and build up your base.

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 18.8%, Survival 15.3%, Sandbox 14.9%, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 9%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person survival crafting game with a strong focus on scavenging and crafting in a hostile setting.

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%, Survival 18.3%, Open World 15.5%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Expands on the water-bound survival and exploration mechanics with added base-building depth.

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 23.7%, Base Building 19.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 10.8%, Resource Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers the ultimate first-person automation and base-building experience for fans of complex supply chains.

Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.

Why similar: Base Building 17.7%, Crafting 14.9%, Survival 12.3%, Resource Management 11.8%, Open World 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Presents a scientifically grounded survival experience focusing on base building, resource management, and life support.

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 24.3%, Base Building 21.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines space colony simulation, automation, and resource management in an expansive universe.

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 18.9%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Survival 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides deeply intricate automation, engineering, and life-support survival mechanics for hardcore players.

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 19.3%, Crafting 15.6%, Survival 14.7%, Sandbox 11.3%, Open World 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging single-player survival game focusing on crafting, base building, and resource management.

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%, Crafting 16.8%, Sandbox 13.8%, Survival 12.9%, Open World 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers unique mobile base-building and automation mechanics while surviving volcanic eruptions.

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 26.1% ★, Crafting 18.4%, Survival 15.3%, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features survival crafting and base building on floating islands with an emphasis on exploration.

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 21.7%, Survival 19.5%, Crafting 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Open World 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game set in a water-filled world where you build bases and scavenge ruins.

Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

Why similar: Base Building 20%, Crafting 17.5%, Survival 15.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Immersive Sim 10%

Why You'll Like It: A survival crafting game set in a massive sci-fi research facility with deep base building and crafting systems.

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 15.7%, Crafting 15.5%, Base Building 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Sandbox 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on vehicle maintenance, resource scavenging, and surviving a surreal, anomalous environment.

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 21.1%, Crafting 18.4%, Open World 14.6%, Sandbox 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A session-based PvE survival game featuring intense resource management, weather hazards, and crafting.

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Why similar: Survival 28.9%, Crafting 22.6%, Open World 19.7%, Sandbox 9%, First-Person 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges players to survive on a vast ocean and island chain through scavenging and shelter building.

Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.

Why similar: Base Building 23.1%, Crafting 21.1%, Survival 20.3%, Open World 19%, Exploration 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A PvE open-world survival crafting game with realm-hopping exploration and base construction.

Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

Why similar: Base Building 19.9%, Crafting 17.9%, Open World 16%, Survival 15.9%, Sandbox 15.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers underground sandbox mining, base building, and automation in an expansive subterranean world.

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 24.8%, Crafting 16.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Immersive Sim 11.4%, Management 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features automation and crafting mechanics centered around recycling and cleaning up a polluted world.

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 22.4%, Crafting 17.8%, Survival 17.7%, Open World 14.8%, Sandbox 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world survival, base building, and crafting from a unique perspective.

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 25%, Crafting 17.8%, Base Building 16.6%, Open World 15.1%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: An uncompromising realistic survival simulator emphasizing crafting, building, and ecological adaptation.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Crafting 19.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 11.4%, Sandbox 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Blends survival, crafting, and base building with village management and resource automation.

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 12.9%, Sandbox 11.2%, Open World 10.2%

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: Automation 27.8%, Base Building 19.5%, Resource Management 12.2%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 10%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for resource management and industrial automation gameplay.

Survive on the edge of space! Craft and upgrade tools, scavenge resources, and save a galaxy gone completely off the rails. Can Ordinary Man save the galaxy with the help of the immortal Chicken and some duct tape?

Why similar: Survival 17.5%, Sandbox 13.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Immersive Sim 10.6%, Base Building 10.3%

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 18.6%, Crafting 14.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 13.2%, Open World 12.9%

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 14.9%, Automation 13.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Sandbox 10%

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 20.3%, Crafting 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Resource Management 12.4%, Sandbox 12.2%

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 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Crafting 15.1%, Lore-Rich 12.4%, Survival 12%

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 17.4%, Survival 15.8%, Open World 15%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Crafting 10.9%

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 17.7%, Survival 16.1%, Open World 14.6%, Crafting 13.8%, Physics 12.2%

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 17.4%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 11.5%

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 22.5%, Crafting 14.5%, Survival 11.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10.9%

Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.

Why similar: Automation 21.8%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 11.6%, Sandbox 10.6%, Management 8.6%

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 13.4%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 9.5%, Management 9.1%

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 19.4%, Base Building 17.3%, Crafting 13%, Open World 11.3%, Sandbox 10.1%

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 14.2%, Crafting 13.9%, Open World 12%, Automation 10.6%

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 22.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Open World 12.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Immersive Sim 8.8%

Last Breath is a solo/cooperative terraforming survival game. Dig through terrain, build powerful machines, and restore life to a dead planet. Work together to survive, automate, and reshape the world from the ground up, literally.

Why similar: Base Building 23.1%, Survival 22.6%, Crafting 17.6%, Open World 12.7%, Exploration 9.8%

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 25.1% ★, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 13.2%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 12.2%

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 15.2%, Sandbox 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Open World 13.3%

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 17.5%, Automation 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Sandbox 11%, Resource Management 9.1%

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 20.3%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Resource Management 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 16.7%, Open World 16%, Sandbox 9%

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 18.5%, Base Building 17%, Crafting 14.5%, Survival 12%, Sandbox 11.8%

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 23.5%, Physics 22.7%, Sci-fi 20.5%, Simulation 12.5%, First-Person 10.3%

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 24.5%, Survival 18.4%, Management 15%, Crafting 12.8%, Resource Management 11.5%

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 19.3%, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 15.6%, Open World 14.4%, Sandbox 10.4%

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 17.2%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Lore-Rich 10.1%, Survival 8.9%

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 19.6%, Survival 16.7%, Sandbox 16%, Crafting 15%, Open World 14.6%

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 17.6%, Base Building 16%, Crafting 14.1%, Resource Management 11.1%, Survival 8.6%

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 17.7%, Crafting 17.6%, Survival 15.7%, Management 11.1%, Open World 8.9%

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: Base Building 23.5%, Automation 21.7%, Sandbox 17.7%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Management 11%