- #1 Cowboy Life Simulator
85% matchVery Positive91% of 1,087 reviews2025
Dev: Odd QubitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
“Cowboy Life Simulator” is an immersive and relaxing ranching sim where you step into the boots of a failed businessman starting fresh on the frontier. Buy your first goat, meet the locals, explore vibrant lands, and build your dream ranch in a world full of stories and adventure!
Why similar: Western 31% ★, Life Sim 12.5%, Building 10.3%, Open World 9.4%, Survival 9%
- #2 Sengoku Dynasty
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,339 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.6% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Life Sim 13.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 10.9%
- #3 Above Snakes
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,924 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Piece by piece, create your own world in this relaxing Wild West-inspired worldbuilder. Craft, farm, hunt, build your base, and explore.
Why similar: Western 31.2% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 12%, Open World 11.8%, Building 11.3%
- #4 Embark
80% matchMixed61% of 386 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8% ★, Base Building 18.5%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8.9%
- #5 Heat
79% matchMixed49% of 2,935 reviews2020
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 28.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Survive the wilderness, build a home, raise a family, and expand your territory. Gain power as President, deliver justice as Sheriff, fight for your tribe as Chief, or show some southern hospitality as Governor. Begin your new life in 19th century America.
Why similar: Western 48% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 13.8%, Crafting 7.6%, Building 6.8%
- #6 Medieval Dynasty
77% matchVery Positive91% of 49,891 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 35.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Crafting 21.4%, Building 20.2%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 12.1%
- #7 Sapiens
77% matchVery Positive84% of 2,103 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Life Sim 11.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 11.3%
- #8 Clanfolk
76% matchVery Positive92% of 3,730 reviews2022
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.Pub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Why similar: Fishing 20.5% ★, Colony Sim 19.9% ★, Life Sim 14.7%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 11.2%
- #9 Enshrouded
75% matchVery Positive86% of 97,939 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 43.9 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 22.3%, Open World 19.7%, Survival 17.5%, Crafting 16.4%, Building 11.8%
- #10 Occupy Mars: The Game
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,002 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 30.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Colony Sim 21% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 14.6%, Building 12.4%, Open World 12.2%
- #11 Deadwater Saloon
72% matchMixed66% of 209 reviews2022
Dev: Tanglefoot GamesPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Dive into the wild west as a saloon owner in a volatile frontier town. Customize your character and face the consequences of your choices as you forge friendships and enemies of townsfolk, travellers, outlaws and lawmen. Build the most famous saloon in the territory, or be overwhelmed and destroyed.
Why similar: Western 23% ★, Colony Sim 21% ★, Life Sim 13.5%, Building 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
- #12 No Place Like Home
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,044 reviews2022
Dev: Chicken LauncherPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Humanity Trashed the Earth and left for Mars. Only few remained. EXPLORE the world. Clean the environment, CRAFT with recycled resources. Domesticate animals. Rebuild your village. Restore environment and run your own post-apo FARM as there is No Place Like Home!
Why similar: Fishing 20.5% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Life Sim 15.5%, Crafting 14.9%, Building 11.1%
- #13 Stranded: Alien Dawn
69% matchVery Positive85% of 10,878 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.0 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 26.7%, Colony Sim 23.2% ★, Survival 18.7%, Crafting 15.4%, Simulation 7.5%
- #14 Outlaws of the Old West
71% matchMixed59% of 6,284 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Western 50.7% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 14.2%, Base Building 8%, Crafting 6%
- #15 Depraved
71% matchMixed61% of 1,236 reviews2019
Dev: Evil Bite
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Depraved is a city builder game with survival aspects, settled in the Wild West. Build towns and establish important outposts to supply your residents with food and other raw materials. Resist the seasons, dangerous animals, and bandits and conquer the Wild West.
Why similar: Western 24.4% ★, Colony Sim 23.2% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Building 12.6%, Open World 9.6%
- #16 Soulmask
67% matchVery Positive81% of 17,527 reviews2024
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 66.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Building 12.8%, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 10.5%
- #17 Common'hood
69% matchMixed52% of 337 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, Base Building 19.3%, Crafting 17.1%, Building 16.7%, Survival 9.3%
- #18 CryoFall
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 6,394 reviews2021
Dev: AtomicTorch StudioPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2% ★, Fishing 20.5% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 10.6%
- #19 Bellwright
66% matchVery Positive81% of 18,854 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.9 hrsMean: 41.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Why similar: Survival 20.2%, Crafting 19.5%, Open World 19%, Building 15%, Life Sim 12.5%
- #20 Founders' Fortune
68% matchVery Positive80% of 2,165 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.7% ★, Base Building 20.7%, Building 13.7%, Survival 10%, Crafting 6.4%
- #21 Journey Of Life
68% matchMixed56% of 753 reviews2021
Dev: Hyperion Studio Limited
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 47%
You have experienced the sudden loss of your wealth, which has compelled you to abandon your previous life and begin anew. By venturing into the game world, you can construct settlements and forge alliances with other players, ensuring that you will always have exciting challenges to undertake.
Why similar: Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 17%, Building 14.5%, Survival 14.1%, Open World 13.4%
- #22 Hold Your Own
68% matchMixed68% of 574 reviews2017
Dev: DistrictWare inc.
Windows
A single player open world sandbox, crafting and survival FPS game set in a multi-island land where you'll fight to survive. Build your base, hunt and craft to defend yourself from aggressive wildlife, enemies or friends. Do you have what it takes to Hold Your Own?
Why similar: Crafting 20.7%, Base Building 18.7%, Survival 17%, Building 14.4%, Open World 14.4%
- #23 Bum Simulator
65% matchVery Positive88% of 4,611 reviews2023
Dev: Ragged Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Bum Simulator is a sandbox game bursting with inappropriate humor and memorable characters. You live on the streets of Bumsville. Do you have what it takes to adapt, survive and become an urban legend?
Why similar: Open World 16.7%, Survival 16.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Simulation 14.7%, Crafting 11.2%
- #24 Hobo: Tough Life
66% matchVery Positive84% of 9,628 reviews2021
Dev: Perun Creative
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Hobo: Tough Life is an urban survival role-playing game where you play as a homeless person. Play alone or team up in online co-op. Explore the streets of Praslav, scavenge for food and supplies, beg, steal, and do whatever else it takes to survive the forthcoming winter.
Why similar: Base Building 19.7%, Survival 17.6%, Open World 16.2%, Crafting 15.1%, First-Person 7.2%
- #25 Surviving Ceres
63% matchVery Positive87% of 137 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: Colony Sim 21.9% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 12.6%, Survival 11.6%
- #26 Wild West Simulator
62% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: kg games
Windows
Wild west simulator is a sandbox simulation game in the wild west hunt for pelts, dig for oil, manage the mine gather resources , and there is quests managing your colony entails a lot! you can also build your own settlement and develop your own colony.
Why similar: Western 35.8% ★, Colony Sim 28% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Simulation 11%, Open World 7.9%
- #27 DYSMANTLE
63% matchVery Positive91% of 11,299 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Fishing 21.1% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Crafting 17.1%, Survival 16.2%, Open World 15.7%
- #28 This Land Is My Land
64% matchMixed68% of 4,600 reviews2021
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Experience the frontier as a chief of a Native American tribe and resist the onset of the settlers. Explore the vast world full of hostile humans and animals while defining your narrative through the decisions you make.
Why similar: Western 40.8% ★, Survival 16.3%, Open World 14.6%, Crafting 12.6%, RPG 5.9%
- #29 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
62% matchVery Positive82% of 9,613 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Base Building 19.8%, Crafting 15.9%, Survival 15.4%, Building 14.8%, Open World 13.1%
- #30 Astro Colony
62% matchVery Positive82% of 2,507 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.3 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: Colony Sim 27% ★, Base Building 24.2%, Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 9.6%
- #31 The Infected
63% matchVery Positive85% of 6,890 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
Why similar: Base Building 19.3%, Crafting 15.9%, Building 14.7%, Open World 13.5%, Survival 12.8%
- #32 Dune: Awakening
60% matchMostly Positive70% of 74,162 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.8 hrsMean: 95.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Why similar: Base Building 21.8%, Crafting 18.2%, Building 17.4%, Open World 15.6%, Survival 15.4%
- #33 Denizen
61% matchMostly Positive74% of 859 reviews2024
Dev: Departure Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Make a living for yourself in a city full of opportunity while you meet a variety of locals, explore unique locations, and work your way to the top in this open-world life simulator.
Why similar: Life Sim 26.5%, Open World 16.6%, Survival 15.1%, RPG 9.1%, Crafting 8%
- #34 ICARUS
61% matchMostly Positive74% of 61,628 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 23.6%, Survival 20.3%, Crafting 18.5%, Building 14.8%, Open World 14.6%
- #35 Supermarket Simulator
59% matchVery Positive93% of 80,037 reviews2025
Dev: Nokta Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 33.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Run your own supermarket! Stock shelves, set your prices, take payments, hire staff, expand your store, handle shoplifters, and design your layout. Purchase goods from online or local markets around town, and personally deliver online orders to your customers.
Why similar: Simulation 29.7%, Life Sim 27.5%, Building 21.5%, First-Person 11.8%, 3D 5.3%
- #36 Westlanders
61% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: The Breach StudiosPub: Radical Theory
Windows
Forge your legacy in the Westlands. Survive and thrive in a Wild West open world. Alone or with friends, explore, fight, and build from your customizable wagon. Expand into bustling settlements, recruit allies, and forge a network to tame the wilderness and build your legacy.
Why similar: Western 34.5% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 11.2%, Building 9.5%
- #37 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
59% matchVery Positive85% of 4,513 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!
Why similar: Life Sim 16.8%, Crafting 15.8%, Building 14.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Open World 12.2%
- #38 Gas Station Simulator
60% matchVery Positive88% of 26,821 reviews2021
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Buy an abandoned gas station and restore it to its full glory. Renovate, upgrade and expand upon the offered services to keep up with your clients demands.
Why similar: Base Building 26.5%, Building 23.8%, Open World 18.5%, Simulation 17.4%, First-Person 10.8%
- #39 The Planet Crafter
58% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,071 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 37.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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%, Crafting 17.8%, Building 17.2%, Survival 15.8%, Open World 14%
- #40 Farming Simulator 25
58% matchVery Positive86% of 49,050 reviews2024
Dev: GIANTS Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 33.0 hrsMean: 107.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Farming Simulator 25 invites you to join the rewarding farm life, single-handedly or cooperatively in multiplayer. This Farm is Your Farm!
Why similar: Building 36.6%, Simulation 28.1%, First-Person 19.7%, 3D 13.3%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #41 Eden Crafters
58% matchVery Positive87% of 2,201 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Base Building 19.8%, Crafting 16.8%, Colony Sim 15.8% ★, Building 13.2%, Open World 12.5%
- #42 Nightingale
59% matchMixed67% of 17,828 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Base Building 18.7%, Crafting 17.3%, Building 16.4%, Survival 16.2%, Open World 15.6%
- #43 Contraband Police
58% matchVery Positive95% of 24,229 reviews2023
Dev: Crazy RocksPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Take over the duties of a border guard inspector in a communist country of the 80's. Smuggling, corruption and forgery are the order of the day here. Be vigilant and earn the respect of your superiors.
Why similar: Open World 31.7%, Survival 20.2%, First-Person 16.4%, Simulation 15%, Action-Adventure 12.5%
- #44 Going Medieval
56% matchVery Positive90% of 20,101 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30% ★, Base Building 20.5%, Crafting 15.8%, Survival 14.1%, RPG 6.6%
- #45 Tree House Survivors
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jens P. Behrens
Windows
Through an "accident" seafarers arrive on an island where they have to fight for their survival. Help them by building and managing a tree house for them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Life Sim 15.3%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 11.9%
- #46 Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm
57% matchMostly Positive79% of 44,594 reviews2023
Dev: Toxic DogPub: Excalibur Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Builder. Farmer. Hunter. Trader. Ranching certainly isn’t your average job. Think you have the skills to turn your family’s rundown homestead into the most prosperous ranch in the valley? Then it’s time to head out into the wilderness in this captivating single and multiplayer open-world simulator.
Why similar: Open World 50.6%, Simulation 29.4%, First-Person 15.5%, Singleplayer 4.5%
- #47 ASKA
57% matchMostly Positive80% of 11,270 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Base Building 18.5%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 11.8%
- #48 Farming Simulator 22
58% matchVery Positive93% of 90,107 reviews2021
Dev: Giants Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 34.9 hrsMean: 149.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Create your farm and let the good times grow! Harvest crops, tend to animals, manage productions, and take on seasonal challenges.
Why similar: Open World 36.7%, Simulation 27.8%, First-Person 21.4%, 3D 14.1%
- #49 Survival: Fountain of Youth
57% matchVery Positive86% of 4,259 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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: Base Building 20.4%, Crafting 16.6%, Survival 15.2%, Building 12.3%, Open World 11.4%
- #50 Desert Skies
60% matchMixed57% of 461 reviews2019
Dev: White_Rabbit_Games
Windows
Desert Skies takes survival to the air! Build an airship and fly on an adventure through the deserts of the Wild West. Look for places to land and scavenge for loot, expand your airship and craft new equipment, but beware the dangers lurking beneath the sands!
Why similar: Western 33.9% ★, Crafting 15.8%, Survival 13%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 11%
- #51 Recycling Center Simulator
57% matchVery Positive87% of 2,764 reviews2024
Dev: Balas GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Recycling Center Simulator is a business simulator game with a first person view. Make money from garbage, collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improve your factory.
Why similar: Life Sim 28.2%, Building 19.5%, Crafting 18.2%, First-Person 13%, Simulation 11.3%
- #52 Cash Cleaner Simulator
56% matchVery Positive92% of 7,170 reviews2025
Dev: Mind Control GamesPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 35.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Check it, clean it, sort it, ship it. Welcome to the life of a cash cleaner. Take jobs from underworld contacts and clean some cash. Just don't try to leave...
Why similar: Life Sim 54%, Simulation 20.7%, First-Person 20.1%, Singleplayer 5.1%
- #53 Manor Lords
56% matchVery Positive85% of 85,222 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4% ★, Base Building 20%, Building 15.8%, Open World 13.7%, Survival 13.4%
- #54 Conan Exiles
59% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,387 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Survival 26.3%, Open World 22.7%, Building 21.2%, Crafting 20.3%, RPG 5.9%
- #55 Storage Hunter Simulator
56% matchMostly Positive79% of 3,748 reviews2025
Dev: Raccoons StudioPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Play as one of the bidders for abandoned warehouses and uncover hidden treasures! Storage Hunter is a garage auction simulation game. Bid, win, and sell for profit! Become the king of storage auction.
Why similar: First-Person 36.3%, Simulation 31.4%, 3D 23.7%, Singleplayer 8.6%
- #56 Construction Simulator
58% matchVery Positive81% of 13,312 reviews2022
Dev: weltenbauer. Software Entwicklung GmbHPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 30.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Construction Simulator has returned – larger and more impressive than ever! Fulfil your ambition to become a successful construction entrepreneur by establishing your business from scratch, assisted by your mentor Hape.
Why similar: Building 39%, Open World 29.7%, Simulation 20.4%, First-Person 9.7%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #57 Forever Skies
56% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,270 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 32.0 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: Base Building 21.3%, Crafting 17.9%, Survival 14.9%, Open World 14.8%, Building 14%
- #58 Once Upon a Time in the Colony
59% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Song Qiang Sheng
Windows
"Once Upon a Time in the Colony" is a third-person game with simulation survival, action and shooting elements. Go to virtual amusement parks called "colony" in parallel time and space. Survive and develop, farm, explore and fight in various harsh environments. Write your own legendary story.
Why similar: Western 28.1% ★, Colony Sim 19% ★, Fishing 16.3% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 8.6%
- #59 Foundation
56% matchVery Positive86% of 23,458 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9% ★, Building 20.5%, Base Building 17.4%, Simulation 13.6%, Open World 11.2%