Games Like The Planet Crafter

Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.6% ★, Automation 11.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 7.5%, Online Co-Op 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest match on Steam, centering on surviving on a barren world while building machines and terraforming it into a livable ecosystem.

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 26.9% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Space 9.3%, Survival 8.6%, Open World 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the colorful space-survival tone, co-op exploration, base building, and terrain-driven planetary progression that make The Planet Crafter so relaxing.

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 13.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Building 8.9%, Space 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This also puts you in first-person on a hostile planet where managing life support, gathering resources, and expanding a functional base are the core loop.

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 24.5% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Co-op 9.3%, Survival 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like The Planet Crafter, it is a first-person survival-builder about restoring a ruined environment through steady technological and ecological progress.

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 24.5% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Crafting 9.2%, Resource Management 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its low-stress alien-world building and terraforming-adjacent cleanup and farming loop feels like a softer, cozier cousin to The Planet Crafter.

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 16.7%, Automation 16.4%, Open World Survival Craft 11.9% ★, Crafting 9.2%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Although it drops most survival elements, its first-person alien-world progression and endlessly satisfying machine-and-base expansion are a strong match.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Space 13.3%, Open World 11.6%, Survival 8.4%, Sandbox 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its blend of planetary exploration, resource harvesting, crafting, and base building captures the same sci-fi sandbox itch, just across an entire galaxy.

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% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Crafting 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its mission-based survival on a hostile world delivers a familiar rhythm of resource gathering, base construction, environmental hazards, and co-op play.

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 15.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 10.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Space 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: If you liked optimizing oxygen, pressure, power, and machinery, this is a deeper and more simulation-heavy take on space base survival.

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 36.2% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: The sense of exploring a dangerous but beautiful alien ecosystem while slowly unlocking better tools and habitats strongly overlaps with The Planet Crafter.

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: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its resource loop of exploring a hostile world, gathering materials, and upgrading a mobile base delivers a similarly compelling survival-builder progression.

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 14%, Space 13.3%, Co-op 12.8%, Survival 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar freedom to mine, build, and survive on planetary surfaces, with much more emphasis on engineering your own structures and vehicles.

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 36.5% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 11%, Open World 8.3%, Crafting 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This keeps the same survival-and-base-building formula in a slightly more guided alien environment with strong atmosphere and progression.

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% ★, Co-op 10.6%, Building 10.1%, Space 9.9%, Survival 9%

Why You'll Like It: It scratches the same sci-fi survival-crafting urge while adding large-scale base, ship, and planetary construction.

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 25.1% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It leans more into co-op survival sandbox chaos, but its crafting, base defense, and science-fiction setting make it a good mechanical fit.

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 32.1% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Space 10.7%, Survival 8.9%, Crafting 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is a more comedic but very comparable first-person space survival game built around scavenging, crafting systems, and staying alive in a harsh environment.

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 25.9% ★, Automation 13.4%, Crafting 8.8%, Base Building 8.5%, Space 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This mixes space survival, scavenging, and modular base building in a way that will appeal if you mainly loved the sci-fi crafting loop.

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 30.3% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 14%, Co-op 10.4%, Crafting 9%

Why You'll Like It: Despite the backyard setting, it has the same satisfying co-op rhythm of harvesting, crafting, building, and gradually mastering a dangerous world.

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 19%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 9.2%, Resource Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is best if your favorite part of The Planet Crafter was building machines and scaling production on an alien world rather than raw survival.

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 34.1% ★, Survival 13.3%, Co-op 10.2%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its relaxed but addictive loop of gathering resources, expanding a home base, and unlocking new tech is very close in feel even without the space setting.

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 20.3%, Automation 18.9%, Space 11.9%, Building 10%, Resource Management 10%

Why You'll Like It: Its blend of space-set colony building, automation, and resource logistics fits players who enjoyed the gradual technological ramp of The Planet Crafter.

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 14.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It similarly combines first-person construction on an alien planet with long-term industrial expansion, just with more factory focus than survival.

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 25.6% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its environmental survival, base building, and exploration-first pacing make it a good option if you want another immersive world to slowly tame.

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 32.6% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Co-op 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Survival 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Building and upgrading a traveling base while scavenging through a strange world gives it a familiar craft-survive-expand rhythm.

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 20.3%, Online Co-Op 15.2%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 14.5%, Crafting 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is more action-oriented, yet its exploration, shelter building, and steady world-unlocking progression hit a similar long-form survival-crafting groove.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.3%, Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: If the appeal was building a home, venturing out for resources, and coming back stronger each session, Valheim nails that loop in a fantasy world.

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 23.9% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 8.4%, Automation 8.4%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This offers co-op survival and construction on an alien planet, though it emphasizes vehicles and combat more than The Planet Crafter does.

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 22.4% ★, Automation 12.1%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 7.6%, Co-op 7.5%

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 26.3% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 7%

Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Automation 10%, Online Co-Op 7.6%, Crafting 6.9%

Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Crafting 14.5%, Open World 12.9%, Survival 11.7%, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is a broader and messier sandbox, but its mix of crafting, building, automation, and open-world progression can scratch a similar itch.

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 22.3% ★, Building 11.6%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its oxygen management, survival systems, and base-building progression echo some of The Planet Crafter's most satisfying resource-balancing moments.

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 16.1% ★, Automation 13.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 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% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Automation 10.3%, Crafting 8.1%, Building 8.1%

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 27.1% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Building 9%, Co-op 8.9%, Sandbox 7.2%

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 18.2%, Base Building 17.7%, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 11.6%, Open World 10.2%

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 25.2% ★, Automation 15.5%, Crafting 10%, Survival 9.1%, Open World 8.3%

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 26.8% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Co-op 8.9%, Survival 8%

Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Crafting 9%, Building 8.5%

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 23.4%, Base Building 20.3%, Space 14.1%, Building 11.5%, Resource Management 9.3%

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!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Automation 13.2%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 8.2%, Building 7.8%

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: Automation 20.2%, Base Building 17.9%, Space 12.5%, Co-op 11.2%, Crafting 10.5%

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 28.7% ★, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Space 8.9%, Survival 8.5%, Base Building 8.3%

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 37.6% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Co-op 11.4%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 10.9%

Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.

Why similar: Automation 19.5%, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 10.1%, Resource Management 9.9%

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 24.3%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 10.2%

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 17.5% ★, Automation 11.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 8.2%, Crafting 8%

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 24.3% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Automation 10.8%, Crafting 8.9%, Space 7.7%

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 28.1% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 9.3%, Survival 8.9%

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 26%, Base Building 19.5%, Resource Management 14.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 11.6%

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 23.8%, Online Co-Op 19%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 11.4%

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%, Space 19.1%, Survival 15.7%, Building 9%, Resource Management 8.5%

Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Building 9.1%, Crafting 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 27.5% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Building 13%, Co-op 12.3%, Survival 12%

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 17.5% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Automation 10.1%, Crafting 8.3%, Building 7.8%

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 22.5% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 12.9%, Co-op 9.8%, Crafting 9%

Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Survival 8.9%

Space Engineers 2 is a sandbox about engineering and colonization where you build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible world. Begin the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol, expand humanity’s foothold in the Almagest system, and fight to survive.

Why similar: Building 17%, Space 15.5%, Survival 14.6%, Sandbox 13.2%, Crafting 11.8%