- #1 The Planet Crafter
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: This is the full version of the seed game, offering the complete terraforming experience with expanded biomes and deeper progression.
- #2 Subnautica
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 378,847 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 39.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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% ★, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the same sense of wonder and isolation while exploring and surviving on a beautiful, dangerous alien planet.
- #3 No Man's Sky
96% matchVery Positive85% of 414,381 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.1 hrsMean: 70.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.5% ★, Open World 13.2%, Survival 9.7%, Space 8.8%, Multiplayer 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers an infinite universe of planets to explore, build bases on, and terraform to your heart's content.
- #4 ICARUS
95% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 31.4% ★, Base Building 13%, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 9%, Open World 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that focuses heavily on the technical challenges of planetary exploration and terraforming.
- #5 Forever Skies
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 8,950 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 28.1% ★, Base Building 14%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: You must explore a ruined Earth and manage a high-tech airship base, mirroring the scientific survival loop of the seed game.
- #6 Satisfactory
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 278,339 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 112.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 18.8%, Open World Survival Craft 14.4% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Automation 10.7%, Open World 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: For players who enjoy the automation and resource-gathering aspects of the seed game, this provides a massive scale for industrial expansion.
- #7 Raft
92% matchVery Positive93% of 377,470 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 37.6% ★, Survival 16.6%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Crafting 9.1%, Base Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: The progression of expanding a small, fragile base into a massive, self-sustaining structure is highly reminiscent of the seed game's core loop.
- #8 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,392 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 77.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 33.3% ★, Survival 12%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a deep sandbox experience where you can build bases and ships to survive across multiple planets.
- #9 ASTRONEER
91% matchVery Positive92% of 139,015 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 29.6% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 9.4%, Multiplayer 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features a similar colorful, low-poly aesthetic and focuses on exploration and base building on alien worlds.
- #10 Space Engineers
90% matchVery Positive89% of 134,313 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 20.3%, Survival 15.9%, Open World 13.8%, Sandbox 11.9%, Multiplayer 11%
Why You'll Like It: It offers unparalleled freedom in base and ship construction, perfect for players who enjoy the engineering aspects of survival.
- #11 Breathedge
89% matchVery Positive81% of 17,661 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 35.7% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 7.8%, Sandbox 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game set in space that emphasizes crafting and base expansion while dealing with the hazards of a vacuum.
- #12 Occupy Mars: The Game
88% matchMixed70% of 3,132 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Mars 14.9% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 9%, Crafting 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A detailed simulator that focuses on the technical and survival challenges of living and working on the Martian surface.
- #13 Eden Crafters
87% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 28.1% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Automation 8.2%, Survival 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the crafting and terraforming gameplay loop of the seed game with a focus on cooperative play.
- #14 Stationeers
89% matchVery Positive88% of 9,229 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 85.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 18.6%, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 13.6%, Automation 11.4%, Sandbox 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A complex simulation game that requires careful management of atmospheric systems, power, and base integrity in space.
- #15 Astrometica
86% matchVery Positive83% of 3,181 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 18.9% ★, Survival 13.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A space survival game that tasks you with building a base and managing resources while drifting through a debris-filled galaxy.
- #16 Dyson Sphere Program
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,542 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 75.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Base Building 26.8%, Automation 17.8%, Open World 13.5%, Space 13%, Sandbox 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the grand-scale automation and resource management required to turn a star system into a productive hub.
- #17 Volcanoids
86% matchVery Positive83% of 9,332 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 18.6%, Crafting 14.8%, Survival 13.9%, Open World 11.5%, Sandbox 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique base-building mechanic where your home is a mobile drill ship that you must upgrade to survive volcanic eruptions.
- #18 Astro Colony
83% matchVery Positive81% of 2,699 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 22.2%, Automation 11.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Space 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines base building with space exploration and automation, allowing you to build a sprawling industrial network in the stars.
- #19 Stranded: Alien Dawn
84% matchVery Positive84% of 11,322 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Base Building 38.1%, Survival 29.4%, Crafting 19.2%, Resource Management 7%, Building 2.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival and base-management game that challenges you to keep a group of survivors alive on a harsh, uncharted planet.
- #20 StarRupture
82% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 28.1% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival, base building, and automation on a hostile planet with a focus on managing environmental threats.
- #21 Voidtrain
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,810 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 37.5% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: You build and upgrade a train base while traversing a strange, ever-changing void, offering a unique twist on the survival-crafting genre.
- #22 Grounded
81% matchVery Positive90% of 95,505 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 41.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 32.6% ★, Survival 16.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Crafting 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: While set on Earth, the core loop of gathering resources, building a base, and surviving in a hostile environment is incredibly polished.
- #23 TerraTech Worlds
81% matchMixed63% of 2,287 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 27.5% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 9.4%, Open World 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that lets you build vehicles and bases on alien planets, focusing on exploration and resource extraction.
- #24 Valheim
79% matchVery Positive94% of 540,690 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.0 hrsMean: 78.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 35.3% ★, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly rewarding survival and building experience that emphasizes exploration and gradual environmental mastery.
- #25 Prospector
78% matchMixed70% of 152 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
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 21.2% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 8.8%, Survival 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on resource management and base building in a sandbox environment, perfect for players who enjoy the grind of survival.
- #26 Oxygen: First Breath
79% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Base Building 31.5%, Survival 22.1%, Resource Management 12.1%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 11%
Why You'll Like It: A survival and base-building game that specifically tasks you with managing atmospheric conditions for a colony.
- #27 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
77% matchVery Positive91% of 7,602 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 28.7% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 7.6%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #28 Outpath
78% matchVery Positive93% of 3,103 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Base Building 19.5%, Crafting 15%, Open World 12.5%, Automation 12.3%, Sandbox 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: An incremental game that provides a highly satisfying loop of resource gathering and base expansion.
- #29 Craterbound
80% matchMixed53% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Marquez
Windows
Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Base Building 13%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and survival within a space-themed environment, emphasizing the discovery of new resources.
- #30 Blossom: The Seed of Life
75% matchVery Positive88% of 1,019 reviews2026
Dev: Pebbledust GamesPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 25.3% ★, Mars 16.8% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 7.7%, Survival 7.2%
- #31 Astrometica: Prologue
76% matchVery Positive90% of 1,299 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Astrometica: Prologue is the free game about surviving in space. You need to use your skills and tools to stay alive. There are many challenges to face, and you need to fight to survive. You also need to build a new base in space.
Why similar: Base Building 19%, Survival 14.5%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 11.5%, Automation 9%
- #32 Star Crafter
75% matchMixed70% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
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 28.6% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 7.7%, Automation 6.8%
- #33 Outpath: First Journey
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,694 reviews2022
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Base Building 18.3%, Crafting 13.6%, Automation 9.8%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #34 Skyformer
71% matchVery Positive83% of 87 reviews2026
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
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 28.3% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Automation 8.5%
- #35 Mr. Prepper: Prologue
73% matchVery Positive83% of 2,554 reviews2020
Dev: Rejected GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Mr. Prepper: Prologue is a free standalone version of the game Mr. Prepper, featuring an essential part of the story.
Why similar: Base Building 27%, Survival 24.7%, Crafting 24.3%, Resource Management 13.1%, Immersive Sim 4.2%
- #36 Subnautica: Below Zero
70% matchVery Positive90% of 108,186 reviews2021
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.5 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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% ★, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 7.2%
- #37 Muck
69% matchVery Positive93% of 184,419 reviews2021
Dev: Dani
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.
Why similar: Survival 23.4%, Crafting 16.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Open World 12.5%
- #38 Gas Station Simulator: Prologue - Early Days
70% matchVery Positive86% of 4,262 reviews2021
Dev: DRAGO entertainmentPub: Movie Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
The "Early Days" prologue to Gas Station Simulator where you buy an abandoned gas station in the middle of nowhere, fix it up and start running it.
Why similar: Multiplayer 37.9%, Building 23.8%, First-Person 15.9%, Immersive Sim 12%, Singleplayer 6.3%
- #39 Ylands
71% matchMixed64% of 8,445 reviews2019
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 9%, Multiplayer 8.5%
- #40 Planet Explorers
72% matchMixed62% of 6,818 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Open World 11.9%, Sandbox 11.2%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 9.2%
- #41 Horizon Journey
69% matchMostly Negative25% of 88 reviews2026
Dev: Redivided Studios
Windows
Embark on an epic adventure to Mars in Horizon Journey, an open-world survival game that blends colonization, terraforming, and exploration in both single-player and multiplayer co-op modes. You're tasked with the monumental challenge of making Mars a new home for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Base Building 13%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 8.9%
- #42 Above Snakes: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive90% of 1,874 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 53%
In the prologue of Above Snakes, you awake in a destroyed settlement and help the survivors rebuild it. After that, expand the world with world pieces, craft, farm, hunt, build a base, and fight to find out more about what happened.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 9.6%, Open World 8.9%
- #43 TerraTech
68% matchVery Positive91% of 24,920 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 32.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, Open World 11.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 8.8%
- #44 Planetaries
68% matchMixed58% of 226 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 9.4%
- #45 Surviving Ceres
66% matchVery Positive87% of 139 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Base Building 21.7%, Survival 20.3%, Crafting 19.3%, Open World 15.1%, Building 9.7%
- #46 Terraformers: First Steps on Mars
68% matchVery Positive89% of 703 reviews2021
Dev: Asteroid LabPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Terraformers: First Steps on Mars is a free prologue of Terraformers, featuring an exclusive challenge to lead humanity's first attempt at settling the Red Planet.
Why similar: Mars 71.2% ★, Resource Management 24.3%, Singleplayer 4.4%
- #47 Oxygen Not Included
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 143,483 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Base Building 32.7%, Survival 22.8%, Resource Management 10.8%, Sandbox 8.2%, Building 7.8%
- #48 Space Trash Scavenger
66% matchVery Positive84% of 525 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 30.5% ★, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Base Building 9.3%, Automation 8.5%
- #49 The Last Caretaker
62% matchVery Positive86% of 13,056 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 19.6 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 17.8%, Survival 14%, Crafting 13.8%, Open World 11.8%, Automation 10.9%
- #50 Life Not Supported
67% matchMixed67% of 173 reviews2023
Dev: YETIBYTES
Windows · Linux
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 30.8% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 11%, Survival 10.9%, Space 6.6%
- #51 Farlanders: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive93% of 288 reviews2021
Dev: Andrii Bychkovskyi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Prepare for your journey to Mars by building and managing a colony within the safety of Earth’s atmosphere. Hone your abilities to create a thriving community, terraform the land to suit your needs, and prove your capability for a larger mission. Get ready to launch in this prologue to Farlanders.
Why similar: Mars 35.3% ★, Base Building 24.8%, Survival 14.6%, Building 9.1%, Resource Management 8.1%
