Games Like Under A New Sun

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 37.9% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly mirrors the theme of landing on a desolate planet and using technology to terraform it into a habitable world.

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 37.8% ★, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This session-based survival game focuses on landing on a dangerous planet, completing objectives, and managing realistic survival needs.

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 34.1% ★, Underwater 16.9% ★, Survival 10.9%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for atmospheric, planet-based exploration and survival with a strong emphasis on crafting and base-building.

Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.5% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 8.7%, Base Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: If you enjoy the realistic survival and resource management aspects of Under A New Sun, this game offers an even more intense and authentic experience.

Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Survival 24.2%, Open World 20.5%, Base Building 18.3%, Crafting 15%, Exploration 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers high-fidelity graphics and advanced base-building mechanics that will appeal to fans of realistic survival games.

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.1% ★, Survival 15.9%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: A foundational survival game that excels at creating a tense, immersive atmosphere while you build your shelter in a hostile wilderness.

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 34.6% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: This atmospheric survival game tasks you with building and maintaining a high-tech airship while exploring a ruined, post-apocalyptic Earth.

Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Underwater 12% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 10%, Crafting 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a realistic, historical take on the survival genre that mirrors the exploration and crafting focus of your seed game.

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 39.9% ★, Survival 18.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a polished, exploration-heavy survival experience with creative crafting and base-building mechanics.

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.9% ★, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.5%, Underwater 6% ★

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival experience that captures the feeling of being isolated on an island and needing to craft your way to safety.

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 43.5% ★, Survival 13.2%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines exploration, crafting, and base-building with a unique aesthetic and a rewarding sense of progression through different biomes.

Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.

Why similar: Survival 21.9%, Crafting 19.9%, Base Building 16.2%, Exploration 8.2%, Sandbox 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a unique, atmospheric survival experience where you must maintain and upgrade your vehicle to survive a supernatural environment.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.8% ★, Open World 15.3%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 6.8%, Exploration 6%

Why You'll Like It: For those who want to expand their horizons, this game offers infinite planets to explore, survive on, and build bases upon.

Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Set in a harsh desert environment, this game emphasizes realistic survival mechanics and exploration similar to Under A New Sun.

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 37% ★, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on exploration and crafting from a unique perspective, offering a fresh take on the survival-craft genre.

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 41% ★, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This space-themed survival game offers a humorous but challenging take on the genre with a strong focus on crafting and base management.

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 44.9% ★, Survival 17.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 8.3%, Base Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a compelling survival loop centered on gathering resources and expanding your base in a vast, oceanic world.

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

Why similar: Survival 25.4%, Open World 22.4%, Base Building 18.9%, Crafting 18.5%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, complex survival system with extensive base-building and a vast open world to tame and explore.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49% ★, Survival 14.7%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 10.2%, Base Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features a realistic, challenging survival loop with a strong emphasis on base-building and defense against AI threats.

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 36.6% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This space-based survival game focuses on the technical challenges of maintaining a base in a hostile, zero-gravity environment.

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 38.7% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 10.3%, Survival 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game leans heavily into the automation and base-building aspects of planetary survival, perfect for those who love tech progression.

An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Survival 19.7%, Open World 16.3%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features robust base-building and survival mechanics set in a harsh, unforgiving open world.

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: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Survival 19.1%, Base Building 13.3%, Open World 13%, Sandbox 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A staple of the genre that emphasizes fortification and base-building against waves of enemies in an open-world setting.

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 32.7% ★, Underwater 14.6% ★, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 9%, Open World 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes exploration and crafting in a realistic, island-based environment.

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 25.2% ★, Survival 15.9%, Crafting 15.6%, Open World 15.2%, Base Building 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: A space-sim survival game that requires you to manage resources and build your base while exploring a dangerous asteroid field.

Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Survival 11.8%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly atmospheric and visually stunning survival experience focused on living in harmony with a beautiful forest.

Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Survival 12%, Base Building 11.6%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a gritty, realistic survival experience where managing your environment and temperature is key to staying alive.

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%, Crafting 17%, Survival 15.8%, Open World 15.3%, Sandbox 8.8%

Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Underwater 17% ★, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.4%

Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36% ★, Crafting 12%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 10.8%, Nature 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a highly detailed and realistic survival experience that tests your ability to manage complex needs in a remote location.

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 36.5% ★, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Open World 11%, Crafting 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a focused survival and exploration experience set on a desolate planet, emphasizing resource gathering and discovery.

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 35.4% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 10.8%

KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Open World 10.4%

You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 11.4%, Crafting 11.3%, Base Building 6.2%

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 40.8% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 10.8%, Survival 8.4%

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 36.8% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 10.8%, Base Building 10.2%

Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.9% ★, Survival 15.9%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 4.6%

Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.9% ★, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 11.4%, Sandbox 6.2%

MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.1% ★, Survival 18.7%, Open World 13.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 8.3%

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 44.3% ★, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Base Building 8.9%, Sandbox 4.9%

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: Crafting 18.1%, Base Building 17.7%, Open World 16.5%, Survival 15.2%, Sandbox 9.7%

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 35.1%, Survival 32%, Crafting 23.3%, Simulation 6.2%, Sci-fi 2.9%

Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 11.2%, Base Building 10.6%

You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.7% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 10.3%, Open World 8.6%, Sandbox 8.5%

Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.4% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 8.5%

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 37.9% ★, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 10.9%

Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 12.7%, Open World 11.8%

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 39.7% ★, Survival 12.5%, Open World 12.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 8.3%

GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.9% ★, Survival 13.8%, Open World 11.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 9.1%

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 38.8% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 10.1%, Base Building 8.8%

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 35.1% ★, Underwater 17.2% ★, Survival 10.4%, Open World 8.6%, Base Building 8.4%

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 48% ★, Open World 13.6%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 9%

A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.2% ★, Survival 12.1%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 9%, Base Building 7.5%

A tale of survival about two shipwrecked robots - ION and ANI - on their life-defining journey in this unique genre-mix of exploration, puzzle and survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42% ★, Survival 13.6%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 10.4%, Exploration 5.4%

The Gold River Project™ invites you and your friends on an open world camping trip gone wrong. Alone or together, you must explore, craft, build, and survive the increasingly harsh environments of the Pacific Northwest wilderness as you uncover the experiment trapping you inside.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Open World 11.6%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Nature 5.2%

Science-driven survival with a relaxing vibe. Farming, base building, crafting, animal taming, puzzle-solving, and exploration on Prehistoric Earth, where you arrive as an alien botanist who is very good at plant research, but... can't breathe oxygen.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 11.1%, Nature 8.1%