- #1 SkyFab
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Oltimo Games
Windows
Stranded on a floating island in the shadow of a mysterious cube planet, you must survive using only your wits and advanced engineering. Build intricate automation lines, manage power grids, and transform a single tree into a sprawling industrial space station. Will you find your way home?
Why similar: Base Building 36.8%, Crafting 25.3%, Building 10.9%, Atmospheric 7.3%, Exploration 7.1%
- #2 Wilds of the Realmwalker
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Galactic Bicycle
Windows
Wilds of the Realmwalker is a four-player cooperative survival game in which wizard explorers and their magical companions embark on enchanting adventures filled with spell crafting, exploration, and cozy, collaborative gameplay.
Why similar: Base Building 25.6%, Crafting 20.9%, Building 9%, Top-Down 8.8%, Exploration 7.5%
- #3 Grimfog: Dead Hand Path
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dire Prism
Windows
Necromancer Base Building Action-RPG. Build your evil exile to defend against raids and craft the tools for survival. Uncover necromantic secrets, raise the dead, summon demons and fallen angels to fight by your side. Sacrifice your mortality to become an undying lich. Burn it all down!
Why similar: Base Building 27.1%, Crafting 22.8%, Dark Fantasy 13.5%, Building 9.8%, Exploration 7%
- #4 Profectus
95% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2021
Dev: Alrek Studios
Windows
Rise through the ages. In Profectus you start with nothing but a world to explore. Your goal is to use what you are given to the fullest extent and work your way up from the stone age into space.
Why similar: Base Building 36.8%, Crafting 30.6%, Simulation 13.7%, Exploration 7.4%, Adventure 6.1%
- #5 Undarkened: Revival
94% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2022
Dev: Colin Stoddart
Windows
Undarkened is a wizarding survival-adventure game where you must unravel the mystery of what, or who, corrupted your homeland. Explore a devastated world alone or with your friends, find out what happened, and try everything you can to save your home.
Why similar: Base Building 27.1%, Crafting 20.6%, Dark Fantasy 19.1%, Building 9.1%, Exploration 7.3%
- #6 GNOPE - Gnome Owner Simulator
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moodneys
Windows · Linux
A simulator where you catch wild gnomes and turn them into slaves to build a grand statue.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 21.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 16.7%, Building 9.7%, Atmospheric 7.3%
- #7 Everlost
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: kub3sqtPub: Orivilon
Windows
Stranded in a world that never stops growing. Gather, craft, build and survive in an infinite procedurally generated wilderness where no two worlds are ever the same.
Why similar: Crafting 27.4%, Base Building 26.9%, Exploration 13.7%, Building 13%, Adventure 5%
- #8 暴食海岛 Munchy Island
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: clownpiece
Windows
Play as a fennec fox in a survival adventure on an island packed with food! Keep your belly full as you explore the island, build defensive structures, and fend off relentless attacks from monsters of the deep.
Why similar: Base Building 37.6%, Crafting 26.9%, Building 12.3%, Exploration 9.8%, Adventure 4.1%
- #9 Waystone
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Reiver Studios
Windows
Master magic, craft, and explore shifting dimensions in Waystone, a dark fantasy open-world RPG where you unravel a universe of unfolding lore, solo or with friends.
Why similar: Base Building 28.8%, Dark Fantasy 21.5%, Crafting 21.3%, Building 9.6%, Exploration 6.7%
- #10 Edge Of Survival
91% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Studio Builderline
Windows
Escape to a relaxing, survival sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your base into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, hunting, cooking, and growing your own food.
Why similar: Base Building 31.8%, Crafting 25.4%, Building 10.4%, Stylized 8.2%, Relaxing 7.3%
- #11 Outpost On Syrinx
90% matchMostly Positive77% of 22 reviews2024
Dev: Polychrome Games
Windows
Establish an Outpost on a wondrous alien world. Harvest, craft, build a base for humanity, uncover alien mysteries, and explore strange new lands.
Why similar: Base Building 30.1%, Crafting 24.1%, Building 10.8%, Exploration 10.1%, Relaxing 7.8%
- #12 Unsheltered
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Exponential Games Inc.
Windows
Realistic survival simulation game, where players must endure and thrive while managing resources, crafting goods, and overcoming obstacles. The game features modern tools and equipment and the constant threat of nuclear war, adding urgency to the player's journey.
Why similar: Base Building 33.2%, Crafting 26.3%, Building 11.8%, Exploration 10.5%, Simulation 5.2%
- #13 Dungeon Cafe
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pango Games
Windows
Build your dream café... or die trying. In this fast-paced co-op base builder, you’ll cook, fight, and automate your way through a chaotic kitchen as you gather ingredients by slaying monsters and prepare magical meals for the Demon Overlord’s ever-hungry army.
Why similar: Base Building 30.6%, Crafting 26.2%, Building 11.9%, Exploration 10.9%, Relaxing 6.4%
- #14 Craft Hero - Prologue
88% matchVery Positive94% of 160 reviews2022
Dev: PandaCat 熊喵独立游戏Pub: OKJOY
Windows
Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night! A new minimalism sandbox survival with countless new ideas – Craft Hero
Why similar: Base Building 34.4%, Crafting 28.3%, Top-Down 10.6%, Turn-Based Combat 9.6%, Building 9.6%
- #15 Crown & Decay: Gordak
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sphynx Softworks
Windows
Play as an orc war chief stranded on a cursed island. Build and defend your village, recruit survivors, explore a procedurally generated wilderness, and hunt the three Undead Lords before facing Gordak's final trial.
Why similar: Base Building 28.2%, Crafting 21.5%, Dark Fantasy 19.9%, Top-Down 7.9%, Exploration 7.7%
- #16 Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,370 reviews2021
Dev: A.Y.stdPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Why similar: Base Building 30.2%, Crafting 24.8%, Dark Fantasy 14.9%, Building 9.1%, Exploration 7.6%
- #17 Alterworld
85% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2024
Dev: Poonpoonza
Windows
Explore the infinite world! Play with the fully destructible voxel terrain! Craft and split items! Build and customize a house or any building! And many more! This is the ultimate sandbox survival game where you can do almost anything you can dream!
Why similar: Base Building 24.2%, Crafting 22.6%, Exploration 13%, Adventure 10.8%, Building 10.6%
- #18 Millennium Slumber
84% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Desmodus Games
Windows · Linux
Survive 400,000 years on a planet infested with an alien calamity! Gather resources, build a base and defend against hordes of nocturnal monsters in this rogue-like with cryostasis mechanics.
Why similar: Base Building 33.3%, Crafting 32.6%, Building 10.2%, Exploration 8.5%, Top-Down 7.7%
- #19 MewnBase
83% matchVery Positive93% of 1,456 reviews2023
Dev: Cairn4
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MewnBase is a space-cat survival and base-building game. Scavenge around a barren planet for items to keep you fed. Explore and collect resources. Craft items and grow your base to help you survive.
Why similar: Base Building 36.1%, Crafting 25.5%, Building 9.3%, Exploration 9.2%, Top-Down 8.5%
- #20 Craft Hero
84% matchVery Positive83% of 412 reviews2022
Dev: PandaCat 熊喵独立游戏Pub: OKJOY
Windows
Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night! A new minimalism sandbox survival with countless new ideas – Craft Hero
Why similar: Base Building 35.4%, Crafting 26.4%, Turn-Based Combat 12.9%, Building 10.3%, Simulation 6.8%
- #21 Medieval Builders: Strongholds & Castles
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Madnetic Games
Windows
Craft, hunt, and survive in fantasy medieval world. Build your village, manage and defend castles and whole kingdoms. Become a local lord and a builder. Strongholds & Castles are waiting for you to manage them - alone or with your friends!
Why similar: Base Building 24.6%, Crafting 21.2%, Dark Fantasy 21.2%, Building 10.3%, Exploration 7.6%
- #22 Isle of the Jötunn
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tom's Feral Cat Games
Windows
You are the sole survivor of a terrible shipwreck. The isle is rich with the resources to keep you alive but, it seems there is another inhabitant. A Jotun of fearsome strength has lived here for ages and doesn't enjoy visitors.
Why similar: Crafting 27.7%, Base Building 20.4%, Dark Fantasy 18.8%, Building 9.5%, Simulation 8.2%
- #23 The Chenwei Unveiler
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TianDuan
Windows
Breaker of Clouds is a dark medieval single-player action game: scour, fight, and extract by day; hold the tower against the cloud tide by night—survive to the next dawn through tough choices in building, troops, and builds.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 22.3%, Crafting 19.5%, Base Building 18.3%, Top-Down 10.8%, Exploration 10.5%
- #24 ENDGAME: Survival
81% matchMixed45% of 40 reviews2023
Dev: AGames
Windows
Big group of people will be dropped into a deserted island where they will have to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 37.4%, Crafting 28.2%, Building 11.8%, Exploration 8.6%, Simulation 8%
- #25 GlowCore
79% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: CNDY StudiosPub: Nat Games
Windows · Linux
GlowCore is a singleplayer progression game focused on resource gathering and gradual world expansion. In the center of the world lies the GlowCore. The goal is to expand the world by feeding the GlowCore with wood and other resources.
Why similar: Base Building 26.8%, Crafting 21%, Top-Down 9.6%, Exploration 9.2%, Stylized 7.7%
- #26 Starframe Station
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rickard Abraham
Windows
A physics‑based sandbox 2D adventure of survival and exploration. Gather resources to build bases, contraptions, and outposts on land or in space, but since everything keeps its mass, hauling it around requires smart planning.
Why similar: Base Building 43.9%, Crafting 28.4%, Exploration 16%, Simulation 10.9%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #27 Resttore
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: s4bishii
Windows
Craft, build and upgrade your character as you explore a fantasy open world full of secrets and help its habitants defeat the creatures that brought this place to its end.
Why similar: Base Building 34.6%, Crafting 24.7%, Building 11.4%, Exploration 10.3%, Relaxing 7.2%
- #28 SurvAIval
78% matchMostly Negative38% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: Calm Hyena Interactive
Windows
SurvAIval is a 2D survival automation game where you gather resources, build a base, create AI assistants, and explore new areas to expand your domain while defending against threats and leveling up your skills.
Why similar: Crafting 20.5%, Base Building 20.5%, Simulation 14.7%, Exploration 12.2%, Adventure 10.8%
- #29 Arlo's Ascension
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Piki
Windows
Arlo' Ascension is a single-player action RPG. Deprived of your strength and memories, you must fight the evil that threatens the world. Crafting, blacksmithing, and magic are at your disposal. Do whatever it takes to reclaim everything.
Why similar: Base Building 37%, Crafting 19.1%, Exploration 11.2%, Building 10.5%, Stylized 8.1%
- #30 MicroFactory: Echoes of the Seed
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Solo Caravel
Windows
After an accident, you and your team become stranded on an island. With only sticks and stones, you'll build and automate. As your factories expand, you begin to uncover strange traces of the past. Secrets this island has kept hidden for far longer than anyone ever imagined.
Why similar: Base Building 25.6%, Crafting 19.1%, Exploration 11.8%, Relaxing 10.2%, Building 9.3%
- #31 GridCraft
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: hy_studio
Windows
Shape an entire grid-based world with your mouse. Gather, craft, farm, cook, tame animals, automate production, and battle powerful bosses. Every item, machine, and creature is yours to pick up, place, and combine.
Why similar: Crafting 33.7%, Base Building 24.1%, Simulation 11.5%, Exploration 10.8%, Building 10.7%
- #32 Beyond Terra
78% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: 5 Games
Windows
A space game with open world, terraforming and Crafting Gather resources, build a base and increase your population
Why similar: Base Building 48.7%, Crafting 33.9%, Adventure 14.5%, Indie 1.6%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #33 Broken World
76% matchMixed61% of 41 reviews2024
Dev: N777
Windows
"Broken World" is an exciting post-apocalyptic low-poly game where players have to survive in a world overrun by zombies and chaos. Build and strengthen your shelters, fight various threats and explore a dangerous world full of secrets and dangers.
Why similar: Base Building 30.5%, Crafting 24.8%, Building 10.6%, Exploration 10.2%, Stylized 6.8%
- #34 Mistaken
73% matchPositive83% of 47 reviews2026
Dev: Storken
Windows · Mac
A dark fantasy progression RPG set in a world swallowed by eldritch mist. Fight, gather, and build your refuge while shaping powerful builds through randomized gear, affixes, and magical Cartifacts. Survive… or be Mistaken.
Why similar: Base Building 29.6%, Crafting 22.6%, Dark Fantasy 18.7%, Building 9.7%, Exploration 9.1%
- #35 Emberwild
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PYRO3D
Windows
A dark fantasy survival adventure game set in the lands of the Emberwild. After your wife is taken by dark, mysterious forces, you explore the dangerous wilderness, uncovering unknowable secrets, and surviving ancient powers now hunting you for trespassing into their domain.
Why similar: Base Building 38.5%, Crafting 27.8%, Dark Fantasy 12.5%, 3D 4.8%, Simulation 4.7%
- #36 Kingdom Craft
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PimpGameStudio
Windows
Kingdom Craft is a survival game in a world of floating islands with unique gravity. Craft items by combining different materials, explore, build, and progress to reach the ancient portal and return home.
Why similar: Base Building 32.8%, Crafting 25.9%, Building 10.2%, Simulation 7.4%, Stylized 6.9%
- #37 Cast Ashore
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unanchored Studios
Windows
After a catastrophic rocket crash, you find yourself stranded on an island with only the ocean and unexplored land before you. Immerse yourself in a peaceful, open-world adventure where curiosity guides your journey. Survive. Build. Explore.
Why similar: Base Building 30.8%, Crafting 19.5%, Exploration 9.2%, Atmospheric 8.6%, Building 7.9%
- #38 Evospace
75% matchVery Positive83% of 392 reviews2019
Dev: Quantum Rivet
Windows · Mac
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
Why similar: Base Building 34.6%, Crafting 29%, Building 10.4%, Simulation 8.3%, Exploration 7.5%
- #39 AstroPlanet
72% matchMixed67% of 43 reviews2025
Dev: VIVA
Windows
AstroPlanet is a sandbox game where you find yourself in the role of an astronaut whose ship has crashed on a planet with an inhospitable atmosphere. Your task is not only to survive, but also to turn this world into a habitable place.
Why similar: Base Building 35.6%, Crafting 28.2%, Building 9.7%, Simulation 7.2%, Top-Down 6.3%
- #40 Eldercraft: Mountaineers
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Derivative Synergistics
Windows
In this first-person, non-combat RPG, scale a vast fantasy mountain. Craft gear, survive the ascent, and forge your own routes up to lost treasures. Trade these treasures to buy and upgrade gear so that you can climb higher. Reach the peak and uncover the mystery of this teleporting mountain.
Why similar: Base Building 32%, Crafting 21.3%, Dark Fantasy 11%, Building 9.9%, Exploration 6.8%
- #41 Hold the Line
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Safepanic Studio
Windows
Hold the Line is a top-down 2D roguelite survival game. Survive on a procedurally generated island, prepare by day, endure the night, forge your survival build, adapt to dynamic events, and face the final trial on Day 7.
Why similar: Base Building 33.3%, Crafting 25%, Building 9.6%, Top-Down 9.2%, Exploration 7.6%
- #42 Tides of Despair
73% matchMixed42% of 19 reviews2023
Dev: Survival Poly Games
Windows
After a shipwreck, you are one of the survivors. To Survive you will need to fight for your life.
Why similar: Base Building 40.4%, Crafting 29.4%, Building 12.4%, Exploration 8.4%, Adventure 4.7%
- #43 Isle Of Pochimoon
71% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Antitesa Studio
Windows
Isle of Pochimoon is a Bullet Heaven game that blends life-simulation elements, including a building system, crafting, selling products at a convenience store, fishing, taming Pochimoon, and Pochimoon Fusion where you can fuse two Pochimoon to create an entirely new one that help you in combat
Why similar: Base Building 31.2%, Crafting 23.3%, Building 10.9%, Exploration 7.8%, Relaxing 7.1%
- #44 Graveyard Warden
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Clockwork Origins
Windows · Mac · Linux
Inherit a neglected graveyard, prepare graves, craft coffins and tombstones, and manage daily burials. Restore your cemetery, explore the surrounding area, and uncover the secrets behind your inheritance.
Why similar: Crafting 30.8%, Simulation 16.1%, Building 16%, Adventure 11.9%, Atmospheric 8.2%
- #45 Laplana
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Laplana Games
Windows
Laplana is a strategy simulation game on an alien world. Domesticate different organisms and combine them to build complex biological production chains. Evolve them to unlock new abilities. Adapt to a changing environment and defend your structures against the chaos of this world.
Why similar: Base Building 37.2%, Crafting 33.8%, Building 17.1%, Simulation 10.1%, Indie 1.1%
- #46 GENKAI SHURAKU
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Software GeNie
Windows
Rebuild a collapsed remote village in this crafting–farming–settlement game. Gather resources, cook, manage fields, survive raids, and run a small stall to restore the community.
Why similar: Base Building 57%, Crafting 21.5%, Simulation 15.2%, 3D 5.1%, Indie 1.3%
- #47 Lumiel the Awakening
70% matchPositive84% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: Mark Koch
Windows
Lumiel the Awakening is an Open World Top Down Adventure RPG Game set in a Fantasy Sci-fi Setting. Stranded on an island, players focus on exploration, building, and harvesting while battling monsters, collecting rare items, and uncovering hidden treasures in diverse dungeons.
Why similar: Base Building 35.1%, Crafting 20.3%, Dark Fantasy 19.9%, Exploration 9.4%, Fantasy 5.3%
- #48 Tales of Morrow
71% matchMixed46% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: GameMechanic
Windows
Create your tale! Build your home, fight, farm, and explore an old civilization while developing your skills and abilities in this relaxing and adventurous experience. You decide your fate!
Why similar: Base Building 32.6%, Crafting 22.2%, Building 9.6%, Exploration 9.4%, Relaxing 7%
- #49 Tide Fall
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lone Badger Studio Pub: Lone Badger Studio
Windows
Explore dangerous islands, build and defend your base, sail the seas, and raid rival crews in this open-world pirate survival game.
Why similar: Base Building 33%, Crafting 25%, Dark Fantasy 15.4%, Building 9.1%, Exploration 8.4%
- #50 Hands On Builder
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Good Movement Studios
Windows
Hands On Builder is a cozy first-person building simulation where you gather materials, prepare them yourself, and construct your home piece by piece. Cut logs into panels and studs, plan your worksite, and build at your own pace in a relaxed sandbox world.
Why similar: Crafting 31.4%, Base Building 21.5%, Building 15.4%, Simulation 11%, Exploration 7.6%
- #51 Yondel
67% matchPositive91% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Martal GamesPub: Orca
Windows
Yondel is an open-world PvE survival crafting adventure. Gather, craft, farm and build as you explore a procedural world, fight dangerous creatures, brave dungeons, descend to Floor -10, and survive changing weather alone or in co-op.
Why similar: Base Building 26.3%, Crafting 23%, Dark Fantasy 16.7%, Top-Down 10.2%, Building 9.9%
- #52 Natura: Reborn
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stargazing Games
Windows
Natura: Reborn is a top-down sandbox adventure where nature and creatures have fused. Explore, survive, and fight through an overgrown fantasy world.
Why similar: Base Building 22.5%, Crafting 21%, Exploration 13.5%, Adventure 11.6%, Top-Down 11.3%
- #53 Alight: Lunar Survival
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
[GAME CANCELLED] Stranded in the darkness, survive and build a base scattered across the lunar surface to generate electricity and alight the moon as you upgrade your equipment, struggle for oxygen, and escape fearsome monsters. Singleplayer only, you will survive, gather, craft, build, and explore.
Why similar: Base Building 31%, Crafting 22.7%, Dark Fantasy 17.3%, Building 7.6%, Exploration 7.4%
- #54 Signalfall
66% matchMixed60% of 20 reviews2026
Dev: Fallen Relay
Windows
Crash-land on a hostile planet and build automated extraction outposts to survive. Defend your operations, manage power networks, and send resources to orbit to unlock new technologies.
Why similar: Base Building 33.7%, Crafting 29.2%, Building 12.4%, Exploration 10.4%, Stylized 5.6%
- #55 The Apothecary
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Windy Ghost Games
Windows
Discover the source of a mysterious plague and build your apothecary in the city of Bloodmill. An epic adventure in a world full of disease and ruin. Explore the city, build your apothecary, create toxic potions, fight corrupt diseased creatures, discover powerful weapons and useful allies.
Why similar: Base Building 33.1%, Dark Fantasy 21.2%, Crafting 15.7%, Exploration 12.7%, Building 7.9%
- #56 Force of Nature 2: Prologue
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 82 reviews2023
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Force of Nature 2: Prologue is an introduction to the world of the main game. Explore one of the many worlds and uncover its mystery. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Why similar: Crafting 22.7%, Base Building 20.6%, Dark Fantasy 20.2%, Building 10.4%, Exploration 9.8%
- #57 The Last Elixir
65% matchVery Positive89% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Luke Frisbee
Windows
You are a journeyman alchemist: experiment to learn the secrets of the alchemical sciences, and leverage them to produce a diverse menu of potions for a procession of weird and spooky customers in this compact narrative puzzle experience.
Why similar: Crafting 32.3%, Dark Fantasy 28.3%, Atmospheric 11.2%, Simulation 10%, Stylized 8%
- #58 Skylost
68% matchPositive88% of 41 reviews2022
Dev: Skylost Games
Windows
Skylost is a 3D exploration and crafting game where you climb and glide your way through dangerous floating islands in search of your lost love Amelia.
Why similar: Crafting 40%, Dark Fantasy 20.9%, Exploration 16.8%, Adventure 10.3%, Stylized 9.7%