- #1 Outpost: Infinity Siege
97% matchMixed65% of 13,623 reviews2024
Dev: Team RangerPub: Lightning Games
Windows
Median: 16.2 hrsMean: 41.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Command Mobile Outpost and take XEN Firearm to venture deep into the Signet surveillance off-limit area. Collect unique Weapon Units. Amp up the firepower of the Outpost that fights with you. This is an FTD game - FPS, Tower Defense, Base Building and much more all at the same time.
Why similar: Base Building 24.5%, Tower Defense 23.8%, RTS 15.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines first-person shooter combat with base-building and tower-defense mechanics in a high-stakes survival setting.
- #2 Mindustry
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 27,902 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Base Building 23.7%, Tower Defense 20.9%, RTS 15.1%, Resource Management 8.1%, Building 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A perfect blend of resource management, automation, and tower-defense strategy in a top-down perspective.
- #3 Factorio
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 233,774 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 192.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Base Building 35.2%, Sandbox 13%, Crafting 12.1%, Resource Management 11.5%, Survival 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive experience for players who love the automation and base-defense aspects of The Riftbreaker.
- #4 Satisfactory
94% 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 32.9%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 11.6%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Sandbox 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a first-person perspective on the complex automation and base-building found in The Riftbreaker.
- #5 They Are Billions
95% matchVery Positive85% of 51,351 reviews2019
Dev: Numantian Games
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 56.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
Why similar: Base Building 35.1%, Tower Defense 18.3%, RTS 17.3%, Survival 12.1%, Building 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the survival and tower-defense elements, challenging you to protect a colony from massive zombie hordes.
- #6 Dyson Sphere Program
94% 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 43.9%, Building 18.3%, Sandbox 14.4%, Resource Management 12.6%, Strategy 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a massive scale for automation and base building across multiple planets.
- #7 Core Keeper
93% matchVery Positive93% of 66,104 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 34.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Base Building 18.8%, Online Co-Op 15%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that emphasizes exploration, base building, and combat in a mysterious underground world.
- #8 V Rising
92% matchVery Positive89% of 136,761 reviews2024
Dev: Stunlock Studios
Windows
Median: 20.8 hrsMean: 57.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Why similar: Base Building 25.5%, Survival 14.9%, Online Co-Op 14.4%, Crafting 11.6%, Multiplayer 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features fluid action-RPG combat combined with deep base-building and survival mechanics.
- #9 Orcs Must Die! 3
91% matchVery Positive86% of 14,886 reviews2021
Dev: Robot Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Slice, burn, toss, zap, grind and gib massive hordes of repugnant orcs in this long-awaited successor to the award-winning Orcs Must Die! series.
Why similar: Tower Defense 49.2%, Online Co-Op 16.9%, Co-op Campaign 15.6% ★, Multiplayer 10.5%, Strategy 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented tower-defense game that focuses on creative trap placement and active combat.
- #10 Age of Darkness: Final Stand
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 10,619 reviews2025
Dev: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.1%, Base Building 21.8%, RTS 17%, Building 10.5%, Survival 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: An RTS that pits your base against massive, procedurally generated hordes of enemies.
- #11 The Planet Crafter
90% 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: Base Building 24.7%, Online Co-Op 18.6%, Survival 12.1%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the survival and base-building aspects of terraforming a hostile alien world.
- #12 Abiotic Factor
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 58,426 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 20.8 hrsMean: 46.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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: Base Building 19%, Online Co-Op 16.4%, Co-op Campaign 15.6% ★, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that emphasizes base building and scientific exploration in a hostile facility.
- #13 Cataclismo
89% matchVery Positive89% of 4,300 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
Why similar: Base Building 22.5%, RTS 15.1%, Economy 13.7%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on tactical base building and defensive strategy against waves of enemies.
- #14 Against the Storm
87% matchVery Positive94% of 37,259 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: Base Building 27%, Economy 15.3%, Building 14%, Survival 13.2%, Sandbox 13%
Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city-builder that requires strategic resource management and survival under pressure.
- #15 Sanctum 2
88% matchVery Positive90% of 14,391 reviews2013
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.
Why similar: Tower Defense 61.6%, Online Co-Op 17.3%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Strategy 6.6%, Survival 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: A unique hybrid that merges first-person shooter action with strategic tower-defense base building.
- #16 Mechabellum
85% matchVery Positive84% of 19,313 reviews2024
Dev: Game RiverPub: Dreamhaven
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 55.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Command massive armies in this epic mech auto-battler. Draft your troops, customize your units, master your formations, and crush enemies in spectacular 3D battles. All strategy, no clickfest. Outsmart opponents in 1v1, 2v2, free-for-all, or Survival Mode.
Why similar: RTS 49.3%, Multiplayer 30.9%, Strategy 16.2%, Singleplayer 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical auto-battler that focuses on mech-based combat and defensive positioning.
- #17 Planetary Annihilation: TITANS
86% matchVery Positive84% of 14,686 reviews2015
Dev: Planetary Annihilation Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 17.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Wage war across entire solar systems with massive armies at your command. Annihilate enemy forces with world-shattering TITAN-class units, and demolish planets with massive super weapons!
Why similar: RTS 26.6%, Base Building 23.9%, Online Co-Op 18.2%, Building 12%, Multiplayer 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features large-scale RTS base building and combat across entire solar systems.
- #18 Iron Harvest
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 15,957 reviews2020
Dev: KING ArtPub: Prime Matter
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
A classic real-time strategy game with an epic single player campaign, multiplayer & coop, set in the alternate reality of 1920+
Why similar: RTS 33.1%, Base Building 32.3%, Online Co-Op 14.3%, Multiplayer 11%, Strategy 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: An RTS with a heavy emphasis on base building and tactical mech combat.
- #19 Diplomacy is Not an Option
84% matchVery Positive86% of 12,512 reviews2024
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Base Building 30.3%, Tower Defense 17.5%, RTS 14.1%, Resource Management 12.6%, Isometric 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that centers on building a fortress to survive against thousands of attacking units.
- #20 Lumencraft
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,285 reviews2023
Dev: 2Dynamic GamesPub: Star Drifters
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Lumencraft is a unique combination of a top-down, rogue-like shooter and base building with tower defense elements. Dig and light up dark halls of a fully destructible environment on procedurally generated maps and campaign levels to find precious Lumen - humanity's only chance for survival.
Why similar: Base Building 22.9%, Tower Defense 22.6%, Action RPG 16.3%, Sandbox 14.2%, Survival 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down action-RPG that features destructible terrain and tower-defense elements.
- #21 Vectorio
83% matchVery Positive80% of 397 reviews2023
Dev: BN Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build. Automate. Defend.
Why similar: Base Building 21%, Tower Defense 20%, Online Co-Op 16.4%, Sandbox 10%, Multiplayer 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist automation and tower-defense game that focuses on efficient supply lines.
- #22 Tempest Rising
81% matchVery Positive87% of 11,874 reviews2025
Dev: Slipgate Ironworks™Pub: 3D Realms
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command distinct factions in a desperate struggle for power and resources in Tempest Rising - a classic RTS set on Earth after a nuclear war.
Why similar: RTS 50.1%, Base Building 21.7%, Strategy 12.8%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Isometric 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A classic-style RTS that emphasizes base building and resource gathering in a sci-fi setting.
- #23 Creeper World 4
82% matchVery Positive95% of 4,716 reviews2020
Dev: Knuckle Cracker
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 30.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The unstoppable fluid enemy has returned and destroyed every world in its path! Defend against Creeper as it floods across the 3D terrain in this real time strategy game where the enemy is a fluid.
Why similar: Tower Defense 36.8%, RTS 26.3%, Building 18.8%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Strategy 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique take on tower defense where you must build bases to hold back a fluid, encroaching enemy.
- #24 Necesse
79% matchVery Positive93% of 28,807 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Base Building 18.4%, Online Co-Op 13.9%, Sandbox 13.7%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Survival 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game with sandbox building and action-RPG combat elements.
- #25 Volcanoids
82% 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 22.2%, Online Co-Op 15.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique mobile base-building mechanic where you pilot a drill ship to survive volcanic eruptions.
- #26 ASTRONEER
80% 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: Base Building 25.4%, Survival 17%, Multiplayer 15.6%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and creative base building in a vibrant, sandbox-style environment.
- #27 FOUNDRY
79% matchVery Positive81% of 3,918 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 19.7%, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 10%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory-building game set in an infinite, voxel-based open world.
- #28 7 Days to Die
78% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.3 hrsMean: 110.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Base Building 17.7%, Survival 14.8%, Tower Defense 13.9%, Online Co-Op 13.9%, Multiplayer 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes base fortification and defense against nightly waves of enemies.
- #29 StarRupture
77% 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: Base Building 26.4%, Online Co-Op 15.9%, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 12%
- #30 FortressCraft Evolved!
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,063 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Base Building 20.1%, Crafting 15.9%, Sandbox 15.9%, Building 14.9%, Survival 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: A deep automation and base-defense game with a focus on long-term resource logistics.
- #31 Hydroneer
78% matchVery Positive86% of 28,389 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Base Building 33.9%, Sandbox 16.3%, Building 14.6%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Resource Management 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A mining and base-building game that emphasizes mechanical automation and resource processing.
- #32 Enshrouded
76% matchVery Positive86% of 104,779 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 22.4%, Online Co-Op 17.2%, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 10.2%, Multiplayer 9.9%
- #33 The Riftbreaker: Prologue
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 4,127 reviews2020
Dev: EXOR Studios
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 48%
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Why similar: Base Building 13.4%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Tower Defense 9.9%, Hack and Slash 7.6%, Isometric 6.8%
- #34 Survival Machine
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 805 reviews2026
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Base Building 17.2%, Tower Defense 16.9%, Online Co-Op 14.2%, Hack and Slash 11%, Crafting 9%
- #35 Romestead
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 4,827 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.
Why similar: Base Building 18.4%, Online Co-Op 14.6%, Crafting 13%, Survival 11.7%, Action RPG 10.9%
- #36 Tower Dominion
74% matchVery Positive86% of 5,489 reviews2025
Dev: Parallel 45 Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build and design the terrain while defending your stronghold against alien invasion in this unique Roguelike tower defense. Choose from 30 heroes, survive enemy waves, and upgrade a variety of destructive towers to hold the line!
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.4%, Base Building 21.4%, RTS 15.1%, Building 9.1%, Isometric 8.6%
- #37 Machine Mind
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 591 reviews2026
Dev: Chudo-Yudo GamesPub: Targem Games
Windows · Mac
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!
Why similar: Base Building 15.1%, Tower Defense 14.5%, Strategy RPG 9.6%, Isometric 9.4%, Action RPG 9.3%
- #38 Desynced
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,026 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: Base Building 20.8%, RTS 15%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 10%, Online Co-Op 10%
- #39 Thronefall
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 23,552 reviews2024
Dev: GrizzlyGamesPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.
Why similar: Tower Defense 41.5%, Base Building 21.4%, Isometric 13.4%, Building 11.2%, Strategy 8.1%
- #40 Stellarcraft
72% matchVery Positive91% of 101 reviews2026
Dev: DreamStudios
Windows
Stellarcraft is a sci-fi tower defense adventure: explore alien planets, gather resources, build defenses, and fend off waves of enemies, solo or in 4-player co-op. 🚀
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 21% ★, Base Building 20%, Online Co-Op 17.7%, RTS 11.6%, Survival 9.4%
- #41 Tribes of Midgard
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 23,242 reviews2021
Dev: NorsfellPub: Gearbox Publishing
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 19.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A vibrant blend of survival and action RPG for 1-10 players! Craft legendary items, grow your home base and embark on an epic journey through procedural realms to face towering creatures hel-bent on unleashing Ragnarök. Valhalla can wait, Einherjar!
Why similar: Base Building 21%, Online Co-Op 20.6%, Action RPG 13%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Hack and Slash 10.6%
- #42 ICARUS
73% 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: Base Building 22.9%, Online Co-Op 18.5%, Survival 15%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Crafting 11.2%
- #43 Eden Crafters
71% 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: Base Building 23%, Online Co-Op 15.7%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 11%, Building 10.1%
- #44 X-Morph: Defense
73% matchVery Positive91% of 4,163 reviews2017
Dev: EXOR Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Unique fusion of a top-down shooter and tower defense strategy. You are the invader! Use destructive weapons or lead your enemies into a maze of towers. Strategize in the build mode by carefully selecting various types of alien towers or throw yourself right into the heat of the battle.
Why similar: Tower Defense 63.1%, Isometric 23.6%, Strategy 10.7%, Singleplayer 2.5%
- #45 Monsters are Coming!
70% matchVery Positive80% of 2,808 reviews2025
Dev: LudogramPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defences, and survive for as long as you can. Will you reach the Ark?
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.2%, Base Building 20.1%, Hack and Slash 13.9%, Isometric 12.7%, Building 10.7%
- #46 Bee Island
71% matchVery Positive87% of 1,692 reviews2023
Dev: Lemma Arts
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Play solo or in co-op with friends, take control of the hive and protect it from enemies. Build factories and defence, research technologies and, if necessary, use nuclear weapons, but do not let the enemies harm the queen!
Why similar: Tower Defense 18.1%, Base Building 17.8%, RTS 12.5%, Online Co-Op 12%, Isometric 10.1%
- #47 Heroes of Hammerwatch II
70% matchVery Positive82% of 6,485 reviews2025
Dev: CrackshellPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A rogue-lite action-rpg that offers extensive persistent progression. Build your town, upgrade and equip your heroes, before taking on the ever-changing Dark Citadel - either solo or with a team of friends.
Why similar: Hack and Slash 31.7%, Action RPG 31.2%, Procedural Generation 20.4%, Multiplayer 16.7%
- #48 Planetaries
71% 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: Base Building 17.1%, Tower Defense 15.6%, Online Co-Op 15.6%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 9.8%
- #49 Outworld Station
68% matchVery Positive85% of 841 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 28.3%, RTS 15.7%, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 12.2%, Online Co-Op 12%
- #50 Cubic Odyssey
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,720 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Base Building 34.5%, Sandbox 17.2%, Building 17.2%, Online Co-Op 11%, Crafting 5.2%
- #51 Stormgate
69% matchMixed47% of 9,240 reviews2025
Dev: Frost Giant Studios
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Stormgate is a free-to-play real-time strategy game with a full single-player campaign, 3-player co-op, and PvP versus modes on over 60 maps. Our Editor is also freely available for you to craft just about any custom game mode you can imagine. Join our development journey today!
Why similar: Base Building 34.3%, RTS 26.7%, Multiplayer 16.1%, Building 14.4%, Strategy 7.1%
- #52 Tower Factory
67% matchVery Positive89% of 1,247 reviews2024
Dev: Gius Caminiti
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.6%, Base Building 17.6%, RTS 15%, Isometric 9.1%, Crafting 9%
- #53 Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense
68% matchVery Positive86% of 15,253 reviews2021
Dev: AutoAttack Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.8 hrsMean: 43.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
An infinitely replayable multiplayer and single-player tower defense. Defend against waves of enemies and destroy the enemy's king before they destroy yours. Legion TD 2 is a one-of-a-kind game of tactics, teamwork, and prediction. Party as 1-8 players.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.3%, Base Building 18.9%, Online Co-Op 17.2%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Survival 7.9%
- #54 Monster Outbreak
70% matchMixed67% of 102 reviews2022
Dev: GameMunchersPub: indie.io
Windows
The King's dimensional orb has malfunctioned, bringing hordes of monsters into the Kingdom. Defend your safeground against the monsters by gathering resources, building defenses, upgrading your arsenal, and surviving long enough to find the source of monsters and destroy it.
Why similar: Base Building 19.8%, Tower Defense 19.2%, Hack and Slash 14.1%, Crafting 11%, Survival 10.9%
- #55 EVERSPACE™ 2
67% matchVery Positive86% of 12,991 reviews2023
Dev: ROCKFISH Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 29.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
EVERSPACE 2 is a fast-paced single-player spaceship shooter with exploration in space and on planets, tons of loot, RPG elements, mining, and crafting. Experience an exciting sci-fi story set in a vivid, handcrafted open world full of secrets, puzzles, and perils.
Why similar: Action RPG 63.2%, Exploration 30.5%, Singleplayer 6.3%
- #56 First Dwarf
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 378 reviews2024
Dev: Star Drifters
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Pilot a dwarven mech and fly a dragon as you build and defend outposts across a shattered magical realm. Craft, explore, and survive the dangers of floating islands corrupted by the Taint in this action-packed survival RPG with base-building and co-op.
Why similar: Base Building 22.8%, Co-op Campaign 22.6% ★, Hack and Slash 15.7%, Action RPG 13.4%, Building 12.8%
- #57 DG2: Defense Grid 2
69% matchVery Positive87% of 3,446 reviews2014
Dev: Hidden Path Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.9%, Base Building 21.6%, RTS 16.6%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Building 11.1%
- #58 Hell Clock
65% matchVery Positive84% of 4,243 reviews2025
Dev: Rogue SnailPub: Mad Mushroom
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Forge powerful builds with endless loot in this relentless combination of Roguelike and ARPG. Blast through dungeons and unleash inhuman powers in a dark fantasy twist on Brazil’s War of Canudos.
Why similar: Hack and Slash 33.7%, Isometric 32.4%, Action RPG 30.9%, Singleplayer 3%
- #59 Lost Rift
66% matchMixed70% of 1,693 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.
Why similar: Base Building 28.6%, Online Co-Op 21.5%, Crafting 15.8%, Survival 15.2%, Multiplayer 12.8%
- #60 Rift Riff
65% matchVery Positive95% of 391 reviews2025
Dev: Adriaan de Jongh
Windows · Mac · Linux
Jump a rift, fight off monsters, plunder their world. A strategic mix of juicy tower loadouts, varied monster behaviors, and forgiving mechanics.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.1%, Base Building 24.5%, RTS 17.3%, Isometric 13.8%, Survival 9.6%