Games Like The Planet Crafter

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: Open World Survival Craft 22.3% ★, Automation 11.3%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 7.4%, Online Co-Op 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors The Planet Crafter's loop almost exactly, combining first-person gathering, base expansion, and large-scale terraforming of a hostile world, but adds more automation.

Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 7%

Why You'll Like It: It's the standalone earlier slice of the same formula, featuring the same oxygen-pressure-heat progression, base building, and lonely planetary transformation.

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Space 9.5%, Survival 8.6%, Open World 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: ASTRONEER delivers co-op space survival, modular bases, and the joy of reshaping an alien world, just with a more playful sandbox tone.

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 13.2%, Crafting 9.7%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Space 8.9%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: If you love managing power, oxygen, and infrastructure while making a dead planet livable, this is one of the closest Mars-focused alternatives.

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: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Co-op 9.3%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its science-driven survival loop of scavenging, crafting, and gradually restoring a ruined ecosystem scratches the same 'repair the world' itch.

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: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Crafting 9.1%, Co-op 7%

Why You'll Like It: This one trades harsh survival for a calmer alien-world routine of building, farming, exploration, and terraforming terrain with your mech.

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 15.2%, Base Building 15%, Building 10.3%, Crafting 10.2%, Space 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It takes the life-support and planetary survival side much deeper, with detailed oxygen, temperature, pressure, and base-system management.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Space 13.5%, Open World 11.7%, Survival 8.5%, Sandbox 6%

Why You'll Like It: Exploring countless planets, building outposts, and turning hostile worlds into productive homes makes it a great broader-space counterpart.

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: Base Building 17%, Automation 15.9%, Open World Survival Craft 12.3% ★, Crafting 9.1%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Although it drops the survival pressure, its first-person base expansion and satisfying resource progression hit a similar long-form building groove.

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: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 9.7%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Crafting 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival, tech progression, and gradual mastery of a dangerous planet make it a strong fit if you want more pressure and threat.

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: Open World Survival Craft 36.8% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Like The Planet Crafter, it turns exploration, resource bottlenecks, and habitat expansion into a strong sense of planetary progression and discovery.

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: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11%, Open World 8.3%, Crafting 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It keeps the same explore-craft-build rhythm as Subnautica with a slightly more guided survival story and plenty of habitat-building on an alien frontier.

Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.

Why similar: Base Building 19%, Building 13.9%, Space 13.6%, Co-op 12.7%, Survival 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: You get the same satisfaction of surviving on barren planets and constructing a functioning home, but with heavier engineering and vehicle design.

Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Co-op 10.5%, Space 10%, Building 10%, Survival 9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a more combat-heavy take on planetary survival and base construction, with spacecraft and a bigger sandbox.

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 17%, Base Building 14.6%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This offers first-person factory building and exploration on an alien world, giving you the same steady feeling of turning raw resources into a complex operation.

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 14%, Base Building 13.8%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: If you enjoy starting from nothing and scaling a sprawling industrial base in first person, FOUNDRY captures that progression beautifully.

The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.

Why similar: Base Building 24.3%, Online Co-Op 18.8%, Survival 11.9%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It blends alien-planet base building and resource progression with far more action, but the 'make a hostile world workable' loop is very similar.

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: Base Building 20.6%, Automation 18.3%, Space 12.7%, Building 9.9%, Resource Management 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It leans harder into automation and colony logistics, but expanding a self-sufficient space outpost still overlaps nicely with Planet Crafter's appeal.

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: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Automation 12.8%, Crafting 8.7%, Base Building 8.5%, Space 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It channels the same low-combat survival-crafting appeal in space, with scavenging, base growth, and environmental hazards front and center.

TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 8.3%, Building 8.1%, Automation 8%

Why You'll Like It: Building up a mobile base, harvesting resources, and surviving on a strange planet makes it feel like a more vehicle-driven cousin.

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: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op crafting, research, and base fortification create a strong systemic survival loop, just in a lab-complex setting rather than an open planet.

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: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Co-op 8.6%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Survival 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is a weirder, more combat-oriented survival-crafting game, but building up your moving base while exploring an unknown world hits a similar progression itch.

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: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Space 11%, Survival 9%, Crafting 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its space-survival crafting and constant resource juggling will feel familiar, even though it's more comedic and less base-focused.

Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Automation 14%, Crafting 9.3%, Co-op 8.5%, Survival 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Open-world co-op crafting, base-building, and automation helpers make it a good pick if you want a lighter, more whimsical variation on the formula.

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: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 14%, Co-op 10.4%, Crafting 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Despite the backyard setting, its co-op survival, layered base-building, and exploration-driven progression resonate strongly with Planet Crafter fans.

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: Open World Survival Craft 34.5% ★, Survival 13.4%, Co-op 10.2%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Raft shares the same relaxing-but-compulsive loop of gathering, crafting, base expansion, and slowly turning a fragile shelter into a thriving home.

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 16.3%, Crafting 12%, Building 11.2%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Co-op 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: The mobile base and resource-driven survival progression feel related, though this one is much more combat- and pressure-focused.

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: Open World Survival Craft 23% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Automation 11.7%, Crafting 7.6%, Co-op 7.5%

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: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Automation 9.6%, Online Co-Op 7.5%, Crafting 6.8%

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: Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Automation 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Crafting 8.1%

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: Open World Survival Craft 16.5% ★, Automation 12.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 10.3%

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: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Automation 9.8%, Building 8%, Crafting 8%

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Automation 16.1%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 10.3%, Open World 8.9%

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: Base Building 14.3%, Automation 13.5%, Space 11.9%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.3%

Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.5% ★, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 14%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is another sci-fi survival builder about harvesting alien resources and constructing a defensible foothold on a hostile world.

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: Open World Survival Craft 18.6% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Automation 9.8%, Crafting 8.1%, Building 7.8%

Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Building 10.1%, Co-op 9.7%, Sandbox 7.7%

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: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Co-op 8.9%, Survival 8.1%

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: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Survival 8.9%, Building 8.2%

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 22.5%, Base Building 20.7%, Space 14.7%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 8.9%

Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.

Why similar: Automation 19.5%, Base Building 18.3%, Space 13%, Co-op 11.1%, Crafting 10.4%

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Building 11.5%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 9.8%

Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Automation 15.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 7.8%, Survival 7.4%

Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Automation 11.7%, Crafting 9%, Survival 8.1%

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: Open World Survival Craft 22.8% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Crafting 9%, Building 8.9%

A fiercely formidable sci-fi survival game, set on a hostile alien world that wants you dead! Alone, or with a crew, do you have what it takes to survive?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 11.3%, Co-op 11.3%, Crafting 10.7%

Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.9% ★, Base Building 12%, Automation 11.4%, Building 8.2%, Crafting 7.9%

Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.

Why similar: Automation 25.5%, Base Building 20%, Resource Management 13.6%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 11.7%

The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 9.2%, Survival 9%

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: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Automation 10.3%, Crafting 8.8%, Space 8%

Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 11.8%, Resource Management 9.4%, Open World 9%

Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Building 9%, Crafting 8.9%

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: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Building 12.9%, Co-op 12.3%, Survival 12%

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Base Building 29.1%, Space 19.5%, Survival 15.8%, Building 8.9%, Resource Management 8.1%

Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 12.7%, Co-op 9.9%, Crafting 8.8%

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 24.1%, Base Building 16%, Building 13.4%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 10.1%

You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Space 9.1%, Survival 8.5%, Base Building 8.3%