- #1 The Riftbreaker
97% matchVery Positive90% of 24,991 reviews2021
Dev: EXOR Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 13.4%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Tower Defense 10%, Hack and Slash 7.6%, Isometric 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: The full campaign experience of the seed game, offering the complete blend of base-building, tower defense, and action-RPG combat.
- #2 Satisfactory
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 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 31.2%, Crafting 14.1%, Building 12.6%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Sandbox 11%
Why You'll Like It: Translates the base-building and automated manufacturing mechanics into a rich, exploratory first-person alien world.
- #3 Mindustry
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 28,247 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Base Building 24.6%, Tower Defense 20.6%, RTS 11.4%, Building 8.8%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines tower defense and resource-chain automation in a top-down perspective heavily focused on survival and strategic expansion.
- #4 Vectorio
95% matchMostly Positive80% of 398 reviews2023
Dev: BN Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build. Automate. Defend.
Why similar: Base Building 20.2%, Tower Defense 18.3%, Online Co-Op 16.8%, Sandbox 10.9%, Multiplayer 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on resource management, automation, and tower defense mechanics against expanding waves of hostiles from a top-down view.
- #5 Outpost: Infinity Siege
94% matchMixed65% of 13,643 reviews2024
Dev: Team RangerPub: Lightning Games
Windows
Median: 16.6 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 25.3%, Tower Defense 23.4%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 12.2%, RTS 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Blends base building, tower defense, and first-person shooter action as you defend heavily armed mobile outposts from massive waves of enemies.
- #6 Factorio
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 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 33.8%, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the core addiction of automated resource gathering, large-scale base building, and defending your infrastructure from hostile alien fauna.
- #7 StarRupture
93% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 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 24%, Online Co-Op 15.6%, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 13.1%, Sandbox 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features base-building, open-world survival, and industrial automation on a dangerous alien planet swarming with threats.
- #8 The Planet Crafter
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 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 23.1%, Online Co-Op 18.4%, Survival 13.9%, Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the planetary exploration and terraforming progression found in the prologue spin-offs of the genre.
- #9 Eden Rising
91% matchMixed64% of 1,447 reviews2019
Dev: The Wall Productions Inc.
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Brace yourself for a brand new action-packed Open World. Explore a huge world to gather materials for gear and defenses. Use everything at your disposal to defend your bases and defeat hordes of hostile monsters. Play solo or up to 8-player online!
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.3%, Multiplayer 16.5%, Crafting 15.3%, Survival 14.3%, Online Co-Op 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world exploration with tower defense mechanics as you construct defenses to protect vital technology from alien wildlife.
- #10 Planetaries
91% matchMixed58% of 228 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 15.6%, Online Co-Op 15.2%, Tower Defense 13.5%, Survival 11.2%, Building 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival crafting game centered around building bases and surviving on unexplored celestial bodies.
- #11 Enshrouded
89% matchVery Positive86% of 106,050 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 46.8 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 20%, Online Co-Op 16.4%, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Multiplayer 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep base-building and survival crafting mechanics combined with engaging action-RPG combat elements.
- #12 Volcanoids
90% matchVery Positive83% of 9,358 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 20%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 12.4%, Sandbox 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines base building, resource gathering, and combat aboard a customizable drillship exploring a volcanic steampunk island.
- #13 Core Keeper
86% matchVery Positive93% of 66,787 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 34.9 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 18.4%, Online Co-Op 15.6%, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: An underground sandbox adventure featuring base building, farming, crafting, and action-RPG combat against subterranean bosses.
- #14 Scrapnaut
89% matchMixed70% of 839 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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: Online Co-Op 17.7%, Survival 14.8%, Building 14.7%, Base Building 14.6%, Multiplayer 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down base-building survival game where you manage electricity, farming, and tower defenses against hostile environments.
- #15 Force of Nature 2: Prologue
88% matchMostly Positive78% of 82 reviews2023
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Force of Nature 2: Prologue is an introduction to the world of the main game. Explore one of the many worlds and uncover its mystery. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management
Why similar: Isometric 15.6%, Action RPG 14.4%, Sandbox 12.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival, adventure, and strategy with top-down crafting and base development.
- #16 Necesse
85% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 16.2%, Survival 14%, Sandbox 13.8%, Online Co-Op 13%, Multiplayer 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox action-RPG where you build settlements, recruit settlers, and defend your base from raids and monsters.
- #17 Craft Hero - Prologue
87% matchVery Positive94% of 160 reviews2022
Dev: PandaCat 熊喵独立游戏Pub: OKJOY
Windows
Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night! A new minimalism sandbox survival with countless new ideas – Craft Hero
Why similar: Base Building 26.3%, Crafting 17.2%, Sandbox 16.4%, Survival 14.4%, Building 13.4%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox survival and base-building game with crafting and defense mechanics against enemies.
- #18 Keplerth
86% matchVery Positive84% of 4,170 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
Why similar: Survival 19.7%, Sandbox 19.4%, Building 17.5%, Base Building 13%, Multiplayer 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D procedural survival game with heavy base-building, farming, and hack-and-slash combat elements.
- #19 Mr. Prepper: Prologue
84% 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 35.2%, Survival 26.6%, Crafting 24.9%, Resource Management 11.1%, Singleplayer 2.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on underground base construction, resource gathering, and survival preparation.
- #20 SpellForce 3 Versus Edition
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,622 reviews2020
Dev: Grimlore GamesPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%
The SpellForce 3: Versus Edition gives you the chance to enter the battlefields of Eo for free, letting you test your RTS skills against AI opponents or even other human players.
Why similar: Building 15%, Base Building 14.3%, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Action RPG 13.5%, Strategy RPG 12%
Why You'll Like It: Blends real-time strategy base building with isometric role-playing combat mechanics.
- #21 Start Over
82% matchMixed61% of 382 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?
Why similar: Base Building 19.8%, Tower Defense 17.3%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A survival and base-building game emphasizing crafting, exploration, and defending against hostile forces.
- #22 Bee Island
81% matchVery Positive87% of 1,715 reviews2023
Dev: Lemma Arts
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Base Building 17.6%, Tower Defense 17%, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Isometric 12%, Building 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy and tower-defense game involving resource collection and building defensive structures.
- #23 Brinefall
83% matchMixed42% of 100 reviews2023
Dev: Qwerty StudioPub: Gamera Interactive
Windows
Embark on an epic journey in Brinefall, where you'll gather resources and construct your own village while exploring a vast open-world filled with secrets and mysteries. Battle fierce enemies and collect valuable loot in this unique blend of sandbox and RPG gameplay.
Why similar: Base Building 16.3%, Isometric 12.9%, Hack and Slash 12.8%, Survival 10.6%, Action RPG 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival and base-building game featuring tactical combat and resource management.
- #24 Nova Lands
81% matchVery Positive89% of 3,544 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Base Building 27.8%, Sandbox 15.8%, Survival 14.7%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features planet exploration, factory automation, and base expansion in a colorful, casual top-down setting.
- #25 The Front
80% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 44.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Base Building 17.9%, Tower Defense 15%, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: A massive open-world survival crafting game featuring extensive base building and modern military defense structures.
- #26 Gatewalkers
82% matchMixed68% of 336 reviews2023
Dev: A2 Softworks
Windows
Gatewalkers is a unique mixture of co-op game, survival and RPG. You, as a Gatewalkers, travel across different worlds in order to save your own. Explore procedurally generated worlds, face hostile inhabitants and challenges like extreme weather conditions, toxic atmosphere, lack of water and more.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.1%, Isometric 16%, Hack and Slash 14.8%, Action RPG 14.7%, Survival 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric action-survival game featuring procedural worlds, crafting, and challenging combat encounters.
- #27 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
77% matchVery Positive91% of 7,668 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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: Base Building 21.3%, Online Co-Op 16.5%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #28 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,722 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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: Base Building 24.6%, Survival 18%, Crafting 13.6%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #29 Farlanders
78% matchVery Positive90% of 598 reviews2023
Dev: Andrii BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Base Building 32%, Survival 19.8%, Sandbox 19.1%, Building 12.3%, Resource Management 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-building puzzle strategy game focused on surviving and colonizing the harsh landscape of Mars.
- #30 Survival Machine
76% matchMostly Positive70% of 809 reviews2026
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 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 16.2%, Tower Defense 15.2%, Online Co-Op 14.3%, Hack and Slash 12%, Survival 9.5%
- #31 World Crafter TD: Prologue
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 105 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 52%
A highly addictive survival crafting tower defense game! Gather, craft, build turrets, shoot guns, and expand the land to defend against waves of enemies! The prologue for the full game, World Crafter TD!
Why similar: Base Building 25.4%, Tower Defense 24.9%, Crafting 16.3%, Survival 14.1%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #32 Everwind
72% matchVery Positive81% of 3,899 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.4%, Action RPG 13.8%, Survival 13.3%, Building 12.5%, Crafting 12.4%
- #33 Eden Crafters
71% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 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 21.4%, Online Co-Op 15.6%, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, Survival 11.2%
- #34 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: Base Building 24.7%, Online Co-Op 23.5%, Survival 14.2%, Multiplayer 12%, RTS 10.5%
- #35 Farlanders: Prologue
74% matchVery Positive93% of 289 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: Base Building 33.3%, Building 18.9%, Isometric 16.6%, Survival 16.2%, Resource Management 7.1%
- #36 Citywars Tower Defense
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,129 reviews2022
Dev: 01 Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Citywars TD is a cute multiplayer third person Survival Tower Defense. Build towers, gather resources, craft tools, upgrade weapons, level up buildings, expand your city with your friends and work under pressure before the next incoming wave of monsters.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.5%, Base Building 19.3%, Online Co-Op 18.2%, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 12.2%
- #37 Gatewalkers (Alpha)
74% matchVery Positive84% of 795 reviews2020
Dev: A2 Softworks
Windows
Gatewalkers is a cooperative action RPG game with survival elements, where players travel across different worlds in order to save their own. Explore procedurally generated worlds, face hostile inhabitants, face challenges like extreme weather conditions, toxic atmosphere, lack of water and more.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 18%, Isometric 16.4%, Hack and Slash 14.6%, Action RPG 14.5%, Survival 13.3%
- #38 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
73% matchMixed68% of 439 reviews2023
Dev: Septarian Games
Windows
Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders
Why similar: Base Building 38.4%, Isometric 35%, Strategy 18.6%, Resource Management 7%, Singleplayer 1%
- #39 Desynced
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,067 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 18.9 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 20.6%, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 11.8%, Building 11.3%, RTS 10.8%
- #40 Guardians of the Sanctree
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 375 reviews2024
Dev: HuCang Studio
Windows
You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.
Why similar: Base Building 20.8%, Tower Defense 17.3%, Online Co-Op 17.1%, Survival 10.7%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #41 Terraformers: First Steps on Mars
71% matchVery Positive88% 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: Resource Management 48.3%, Strategy 44%, Singleplayer 7.7%
- #42 Outpost
71% matchVery Positive87% of 796 reviews2020
Dev: Open Mid Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Outpost brings the perfect mix between survival and roguelite gameplay. Start the game in a randomly generated environment and try to adapt, and make it through as many nights as possible. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.9%, Base Building 20.1%, Survival 15.9%, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #43 Astrometica: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive90% of 1,306 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 30.9%, Survival 19.5%, Building 18.5%, Crafting 14.8%, Exploration 7.5%
- #44 Machine Mind
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 601 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 14%, Tower Defense 12.8%, Isometric 10.5%, Action RPG 10%, Strategy RPG 9%
- #45 Siege Survival: Gloria Victis Prologue
70% matchVery Positive87% of 983 reviews2020
Dev: Black Eye GamesPub: Ravenscourt
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 50%
A medieval city under siege and a handful of civilians are all that keep the walls from falling. Mixing survival strategy and resource management, build your camp, craft supplies, and scavenge the occupied city to supply the last troops holding back the invaders.
Why similar: Base Building 22.2%, Isometric 18.9%, Survival 15.7%, Strategy RPG 13.9%, Crafting 11.8%
- #46 Towerful Defense: Prologue
69% matchVery Positive88% of 75 reviews2024
Dev: Mini Fun Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A tower defense action roguelike where you control a single tower to fight against hordes of aliens coming from all directions. Pick your tower, equip up to 4 skills, and choose from a variety of traits and items to craft powerful builds that lead you to victory.
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.2%, Action RPG 20%, Survival 17%, RTS 16.2%, Strategy 7.7%
- #47 Above Snakes: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive90% of 1,876 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: Base Building 24.5%, Isometric 21.2%, Crafting 17.5%, Survival 13.7%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #48 Outpath: First Journey
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,694 reviews2022
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 45%
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: Base Building 38%, Crafting 22.3%, Building 19.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.4%
- #49 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 18.2%, Tower Defense 16.8%, Hack and Slash 15%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 11.3%
- #50 Beyond the Map
66% matchMostly Positive78% of 777 reviews2025
Dev: Glitch Goblins
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Isometric survival ARPG set in a procedurally generated fantasy world. Build your base, gear up, and venture out, chasing stronger enemies and better loot.
Why similar: Base Building 18.3%, Isometric 15.6%, Action RPG 12.5%, Hack and Slash 11.9%, Survival 9.9%
- #51 Ascent of Ashes
67% matchMixed70% of 306 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Why similar: Base Building 20.6%, Survival 13.2%, Isometric 13.1%, Building 11.8%, Crafting 11.4%
- #52 Dwerve: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive92% of 631 reviews2021
Dev: Half Human Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Begin your apprenticeship as Dwerve! Tinker with a couple of the turrets! Meet your companions! Learn the basic strategies and tactics of turret-based combat. Hone your tower-defense dungeon-crawling skills so you're ready for the full game!
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.1%, Action RPG 21.1%, Hack and Slash 18.9%, Strategy RPG 17.8%, Strategy 5.6%
- #53 Abiotic Factor
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 59,444 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 21.2 hrsMean: 46.5 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 20.4%, Online Co-Op 18.8%, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 9.7%