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 22.8% ★, Automation 10.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 7.3%, Online Co-Op 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It closely mirrors The Planet Crafter's loop of exploring a damaged world, gathering materials, building production systems, and restoring the environment through automation.

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 27.6% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Space 9.6%, Survival 8.6%, Open World 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its colorful space exploration, deformable planets, oxygen management, modular bases, and co-op make it one of the most natural alternatives.

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: Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Crafting 7.9%, Survival 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This detailed Mars-colony simulator emphasizes life-support systems, resource extraction, vehicles, construction, and making an alien planet livable.

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 25.4% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Co-op 9.2%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: You explore and survive in a ruined sci-fi world while researching technology and continuously expanding a customizable airborne base.

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 17.3%, Automation 15.2%, Open World Survival Craft 12.7% ★, Crafting 9.1%, Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Players who enjoy expanding Planet Crafter's resource network will love designing enormous first-person factories across an explorable alien planet.

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 23.6% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Automation 11.1%, Survival 7.5%, Crafting 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its hostile-planet survival and first-person factory building make it a strong fit for players who want Planet Crafter's construction loop with more environmental danger.

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: Base Building 15.3%, Automation 14.4%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Space 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a much more technical version of extraterrestrial survival, with deep systems for oxygen, temperature, power, farming, and off-world construction.

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 37% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Like The Planet Crafter, it blends first-person exploration, crafting, base building, and survival in a beautiful but hazardous alien ecosystem.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.3% ★, Space 13.6%, Open World 11.9%, Survival 8.4%, Sandbox 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its immense universe supports planetary exploration, resource gathering, base building, vehicles, multiplayer expeditions, and a relaxed sci-fi discovery mood.

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 23.5% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Automation 11%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This gentler co-op frontier game combines alien-world exploration, farming, base construction, resource processing, and ecological restoration through a customizable mech.

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 16.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 11%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Crafting 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines subterranean alien exploration with first-person factory construction, mining, power networks, and large-scale automated production.

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 13.7%, Co-op 12.5%, Survival 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides sandbox space survival centered on mining, engineering detailed bases and ships, managing oxygen, and exploring hostile worlds with friends.

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: Base Building 14.1%, Automation 13.4%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Building 9.8%, Crafting 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person voxel factory builder offers open-world mining, construction, logistics, and scalable automation on an unfamiliar planet.

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 20.9%, Automation 17.3%, Space 13%, Building 10%, Resource Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes space exploration, modular colony building, automated logistics, and co-op as you establish self-sufficient settlements across worlds.

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 24.7% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 8.2%, Building 8.1%, Co-op 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world crafting and modular vehicle construction make exploration and resource collection feel like a more vehicle-driven version of planetary survival.

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 28% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 9.8%, Online Co-Op 9%, Crafting 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its session-based missions emphasize co-op survival, gathering, crafting, technology progression, and building resilient bases in dangerous wilderness.

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 28.7% ★, Co-op 10.3%, Space 10.1%, Building 10%, Survival 9%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the survival-and-building formula into a galaxy of planets, letting you mine, craft, construct bases and ships, and explore with others.

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 26.9% ★, Automation 12%, Crafting 8.6%, Space 8.6%, Base Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This space survival sandbox lets you salvage debris, build a growing orbital base, automate systems, and keep your colony operational in a hostile void.

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 37.3% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 7%

Why You'll Like It: This more compact follow-up retains the strong blend of alien exploration, survival, crafting, vehicles, and highly customizable underwater bases.

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 21.6%, Base Building 21%, Space 15.1%, Building 11.8%, Open World 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Although more focused on automation than survival, it shares the satisfaction of harvesting alien worlds and scaling a modest outpost into planet-spanning industry.

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 24.9%, Online Co-Op 18.3%, Survival 12.3%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines alien-planet exploration, mining, research, power grids, and defensive base building while slowly establishing a viable outpost.

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 28.7% ★, Automation 13.2%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 8.6%, Co-op 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It pairs co-op open-world survival and base building with programmable helper bots that can automate gathering, crafting, and production tasks.

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 34.9% ★, Survival 13.5%, Co-op 10%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers similarly satisfying co-op survival progression through scavenging, crafting, research, exploration, and continually enlarging a mobile base.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 9.4%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op wilderness survival, construction freedom, exploration, and gradual technological advancement suit players who value building a home in a dangerous world.

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 16.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 11.3%, Co-op 10.5%, Online Co-Op 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its mobile drillship base, resource extraction, crafting, and hazardous-world exploration offer an unusual but compelling survival-building alternative.

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 24.7% ★, Automation 14.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 7.9%, Survival 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This compact automation-survival game combines exploration, gathering, crafting, island expansion, and deployable bots that streamline production.

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 31.1% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 14.1%, Co-op 10.3%, Crafting 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: You gather, craft, build elaborate bases, and explore a hostile but playful open environment with a strong co-op survival focus.

Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.1%, Base Building 15.8%, Automation 15.1%, Building 10.9%, Space 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its planet-wide Mars terraforming campaign captures the long-term satisfaction of transforming a barren world into a habitable one.

You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Base Building 20.7%, Open World 15.2%, Survival 15.2%, Online Co-Op 14.6%, Crafting 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world survival crafting, flexible base building, resource-driven progression, and exploration provide a fantasy counterpart to Planet Crafter's loop.

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 25.1% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Automation 9.2%, Online Co-Op 7.4%, Crafting 6.9%

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 27.2% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 7.2%

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 16.8% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Automation 12%, Survival 10.6%, 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 25.8% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Automation 8.2%, Co-op 8.1%, Building 7.5%

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 24.1% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Automation 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Crafting 8.1%

Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.5% ★, Base Building 11%, Automation 10.9%, Online Co-Op 7.3%, Crafting 7.3%

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: Base Building 16.2%, Automation 15.3%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 9.3%

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 26.2% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Crafting 9%, Survival 9%

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 33.4% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Co-op 8.6%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Survival 7.9%

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 33.4% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Space 11.1%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 7.1%

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 14.5%, Automation 12.8%, Space 12.2%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.6%

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 26.4% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 9%, Online Co-Op 9%, Building 8.2%

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 27.8% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Co-op 8.7%, Survival 8.2%

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: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Survival 10.8%, Space 10.1%, Building 6.9%, Base Building 6.9%

Honeycomb: The World Beyond is a sci-fi survival adventure set on the vibrant alien planet of Sota7. Adapt by building your base and crafting essential tools. Explore diverse biomes and use your bioengineering experience to uncover mysteries and secure humanity's future.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 8.5%, Space 8.2%

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 22.2% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Automation 11.4%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8.8%

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 20.2% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Automation 9.9%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 8.4%

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 31.7% ★, Base Building 15%, Building 10%, Co-op 9.6%, Sandbox 7.6%

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 23% ★, Building 11.5%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Survival 10%, Base Building 9.8%

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: Base Building 18.9%, Automation 18.8%, Space 13.6%, Co-op 11.2%, Crafting 10.6%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 9.8%, Space 9.4%, Survival 8.8%

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: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Automation 12.2%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 9%, Building 8.8%

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 38.3% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 11.4%, Co-op 11.1%, Crafting 10.5%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Base Building 12%, Automation 9.7%, Crafting 8.7%, Space 8.1%

Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story 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 27% ★, Base Building 13%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Building 9%, Crafting 8.7%

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 18.3% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Automation 10.7%, Building 8.3%, 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 24.6%, Base Building 20.4%, Resource Management 13.1%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 11.9%

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Survival 12%, Crafting 10.2%, Base Building 9.4%, Open World 7.7%