- #1 Medieval Dynasty
97% matchVery Positive90% of 51,954 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 36.1 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 21.1%, Building 20.2%, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 12.6%, Open World 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: It serves as the gold standard for the survival-building-management loop that defines the gameplay of the seed game.
- #2 Cowboy Life Simulator
96% matchVery Positive89% of 1,267 reviews2025
Dev: Odd QubitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
“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: Base Building 17%, Life Sim 16%, Crafting 15.6%, Building 14.8%, Open World 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the specific western life-simulation elements, including farming and ranching, that players of the seed game enjoy.
- #3 Outlaws of the Old West
96% matchMixed59% of 6,295 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 14.8%, Open World 14.2%, Base Building 7.9%, Crafting 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes the survival and crafting aspects of the Wild West with a strong focus on open-world exploration.
- #4 Bellwright
94% matchVery Positive80% of 21,252 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.7 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 20.8%, Open World 19.8%, Crafting 19.4%, Building 15%, Life Sim 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: It features an identical core loop of recruiting settlers, managing a growing village, and surviving in a harsh, open-world environment.
- #5 Deadwater Saloon
95% matchMixed66% of 210 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 23.3% ★, Colony Sim 20.9%, Life Sim 13.3%, Building 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep management and simulation experience centered on the iconic social hub of the western frontier.
- #6 Sengoku Dynasty
93% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,779 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 16.2 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 16.5%, Base Building 15.5%, Life Sim 13.6%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: While set in feudal Japan, it shares the exact same base-building and village-management mechanics found in the seed game.
- #7 This Land Is My Land
94% matchMixed68% of 4,649 reviews2021
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 21.6 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 41.3% ★, Survival 16.2%, Open World 14.7%, Crafting 12.4%, RPG 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a more tactical, survival-focused western experience that emphasizes living off the land and managing resources.
- #8 Above Snakes
92% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,990 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.3 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 31.4% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique western-themed survival experience with a heavy emphasis on tile-based world building and crafting.
- #9 Depraved
91% matchMixed61% of 1,250 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 24.9% ★, Colony Sim 22.9%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 12.6%, Open World 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It is a dedicated city-builder that captures the struggle of establishing a settlement in the unforgiving Wild West.
- #10 Lumberjack's Dynasty
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,814 reviews2021
Dev: UMEO StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A unique life simulation where you are a lumberjack building up a business and founding a lasting dynasty for generations to come.
Why similar: Simulation 27.1%, Building 20%, Crafting 18.4%, Open World 14.9%, Life Sim 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It blends simulation and life-management mechanics with a focus on building and maintaining a homestead.
- #11 Westland Survival
90% matchMixed59% of 567 reviews2025
Dev: Helio GamesPub: Helio Games
Windows · Mac
Saddle up for the ultimate survival adventure in the untamed Wild West! Build your homestead, tame the wilderness, bounty hunt the outlaws, and duel against the dangers that lurk on the frontier. Do you have what it takes to be a legend of the West?
Why similar: Western 43.6% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 15.2%, Action-Adventure 8.1%, Simulation 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a tactical, survival-focused western experience with a strong emphasis on character customization and base defense.
- #12 Wild Indigo Ranch
89% matchMostly Positive70% of 467 reviews2024
Dev: Funday Games
Windows
Wild Indigo Ranch is a cozy cowboy-life RPG for 1-4 players. Start a new life on the prairie, explore the frontier, build the finest ranch in the West, and ride into the sunset.
Why similar: Western 38.5% ★, Life Sim 15.3%, Crafting 13.8%, Building 13.3%, Open World 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the life-sim and ranching elements, allowing players to build and manage their own western homestead.
- #13 Saloon Simulator
88% matchVery Positive90% of 988 reviews2025
Dev: Glivi Games S.A.Pub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Start by running a saloon and carve your own place in the Wild West. Shape your bar, hire help, and get drawn into the lives and troubles of the people who gather around your counter. Out here, honest business is rarely enough. See what it takes to survive the frontier.
Why similar: Western 44% ★, Life Sim 17.6%, Crafting 15.6%, First-Person 7.3%, Simulation 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a focused management experience centered on running a business in the Wild West, similar to the management tasks in the seed game.
- #14 Alaska Gold Fever
87% matchMostly Positive80% of 988 reviews2026
Dev: Baked GamesPub: Baked Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Step into the role of a gold prospector during the Alaskan gold rush and build your own empire from scratch. Mine resources, refine different forms of gold, and upgrade your tools to increase efficiency. Explore diverse mines, survive the harsh climate, and complete engaging story and side quests!
Why similar: Western 42.3% ★, Crafting 15.8%, Building 13.8%, First-Person 7.1%, Simulation 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: It combines exploration and simulation mechanics with a western-adjacent setting focused on resource extraction.
- #15 1849
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 383 reviews2014
Dev: SomaSim
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
1849 is a city management game set during the California Gold Rush. Your task is to build towns, populate them with workers, and make sure that they are housed, fed, and entertained. You’ll have to manage and coordinate extensive production and trade networks to make sure your towns thrive.
Why similar: Western 73% ★, Building 12.6%, Simulation 11.7%, Singleplayer 2.7%
Why You'll Like It: A classic city-builder that focuses on the economic challenges and growth of western settlements during the Gold Rush.
- #16 Surviving Ceres
83% matchVery Positive87% of 139 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 13.8%, Building 12.7%, Survival 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a colony-management experience that requires careful resource balancing and survival strategies.
- #17 Wild West and Wizards
85% matchMostly Positive73% of 389 reviews2020
Dev: Lavaboots Studios
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Wild West and Wizards is an open world exploration RPG set in a re-imagined new frontier. Pick a class and level up unlocking abilities and exploring a world filled with quests, loot, outlaws, bosses, spells, caves, towns, and other mysterious places.
Why similar: Western 50.3% ★, Open World 14.3%, Crafting 10.5%, RPG 9.4%, First-Person 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: It adds an RPG and fantasy layer to the western setting, focusing on exploration and character growth.
- #18 Noble Legacy
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 786 reviews2025
Dev: Studio 369Pub: Ultimus Rex LLC
Windows
Noble Legacy is a medieval colony sim where every villager has a purpose and every decision carries weight. Build a thriving settlement, recruit & manage your people, master a deep economy, and defend your realm as you forge a legacy worthy of the crown. What kind of ruler will you be?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 12.6%, Open World 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on the management and survival of a small group of people in a historical setting.
- #19 Desert Skies
84% matchMixed57% of 469 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 34.1% ★, Crafting 15.6%, Survival 13%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 11%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique survival loop involving building a mobile base, which mirrors the base-building progression of the seed game.
- #20 Chinese Frontiers
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 537 reviews2025
Dev: SolidGamesPub: Big Cheese Studio
Windows
Plan, build, and unwind in medieval China. Lead villagers, fine-tune production, and craft iconic Chinese landmarks brick by brick. Roam passes, deserts, and river valleys; farm, cook, and decorate. Master new crafts, earn imperial favor, and turn smart design into lasting legacy.
Why similar: Crafting 17.8%, Building 15.1%, Life Sim 15.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Open World 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a historical simulation experience that emphasizes crafting and building, similar to the life-sim aspects of the seed game.
- #21 Occupy Mars: The Game
80% matchMixed70% of 3,128 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 34.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Base Building 21.7%, Crafting 18.3%, Building 15.2%, Survival 15%, Open World 14.6%
Why You'll Like It: While sci-fi, its deep resource management and base-building mechanics are highly similar to the seed game's core loop.
- #22 Wilderness
84% matchMostly Negative28% of 86 reviews2020
Dev: Horizon Studios
Windows
Survive in the wild nature by playing as an animal or as a human. Play as an animal and survive by your own or build a herd to stay protected. Have babies and protect them from predators. Play as a human and craft items, build a house, customize your character and more.
Why similar: Base Building 20%, Survival 19.8%, Crafting 18.1%, Open World 14.1%, First-Person 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person survival game that focuses on the harsh realities of living in an untamed, open-world environment.
- #23 Tribe: Primitive Builder
81% matchVery Positive81% of 792 reviews2023
Dev: Space Boat StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.
Why similar: Fishing 19.5% ★, Colony Sim 19%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the construction and management of a settlement, sharing the same satisfying progression as the seed game.
- #24 Frontier Legends
79% matchMixed43% of 70 reviews2026
Dev: Neojac Entertainment Inc.
Windows
“Live your Wild West fantasy in Frontier Legends, an open-world frontier adventure where survival, crafting and exploration shape your story. Stake your claim, build your place in the West and uncover what lies beyond the rails.”
Why similar: Western 40.7% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 12.1%, Action-Adventure 8.6%, First-Person 7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an action-oriented take on the western frontier, focusing on adventure and RPG elements.
- #25 Hold Your Own
82% matchMixed67% of 576 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 20.5%, Base Building 18.6%, Survival 17.1%, Open World 14.6%, Building 14.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a straightforward survival and crafting experience that emphasizes building a secure home in a hostile world.
- #26 Wild West Supermarket Simulator
77% matchMixed67% of 201 reviews2026
Dev: SunDustPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Run a General Store in the Wild West. Customize and expand your shop. Make sure that your customers’ constantly changing needs are satisfied. Work every job yourself or let your employees stack the shelves and work the till. Find out what it feels like to own a Wild West Supermarket.
Why similar: Western 42.1% ★, Life Sim 21.1%, Simulation 10.9%, Crafting 10.3%, First-Person 7.5%
- #27 Farmer's Dynasty 2
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,278 reviews2026
Dev: UMEO StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 27.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build your dream farm and secure your family’s future. Cultivate your fields, raise animals, and shape your dynasty across generations in this beautifully crafted life and farming simulation. Start your dynasty today!
Why similar: Fishing 32.5% ★, Life Sim 20.1%, Building 16.8%, First-Person 8%, Simulation 7.3%
- #28 Tales of Morrow
78% matchMixed46% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: GameMechanic
Windows
Create your tale! Build your home, fight, farm, and explore an old civilization while developing your skills and abilities in this relaxing and adventurous experience. You decide your fate!
Why similar: Fishing 20.6% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Crafting 13.8%, Building 12.8%, Survival 9.3%
- #29 Deadwater Saloon Prologue
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 155 reviews2022
Dev: Tanglefoot GamesPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Dive into the wild west as a saloon owner with this Free Prologue version of Deadwater Saloon. Customize your character and face the consequences of your choices as you forge friendships and enemies of townsfolk, travellers, outlaws and lawmen all while building your saloon business.
Why similar: Western 25.1% ★, Colony Sim 19%, Life Sim 13.5%, Building 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
- #30 Heat
78% matchMixed49% of 2,935 reviews2020
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 28.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 48.1% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 13.9%, Crafting 7.5%, Building 6.8%
- #31 Viking Frontiers
76% matchMixed52% of 538 reviews2025
Dev: BLUM EntertainmentPub: GameHunters
Windows
Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory. Gather, build, craft, hunt, raid and follow your Gods to endure hardships of nature and save your clan from violent destruction.
Why similar: Open World 30.3%, Life Sim 21%, RPG 15.3%, Simulation 12.8%, First-Person 11.2%
- #32 Denizen
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 908 reviews2024
Dev: Departure Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 26.2%, Open World 16.9%, Survival 15.1%, RPG 9.2%, Crafting 8.1%
- #33 Saloon Simulator: Prologue
74% matchVery Positive87% of 871 reviews2024
Dev: Glivi Games S.A.Pub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Saloon Simulator Prologue lets you restore an abandoned Saloon and discover that managing it isn't just about creating drinks and meals. Clean up, organize, and choose the right friends - all to become the most recognizable business in the Wild West!
Why similar: Western 47.4% ★, Crafting 19%, Life Sim 17.1%, First-Person 6.5%, Simulation 5.1%
- #34 Cattle Country
73% matchVery Positive86% of 376 reviews2025
Dev: Castle Pixel, LLC.Pub: Playtonic Friends
Windows · Linux
Howdy partner! Welcome to Cattle Country, the Cozy Cowboy Adventure Life Sim. Become a determined pioneer traveling west to start a new life. Make a home in the mountains, take on bandits, discover dastardly plots, build a farm, develop your town, and make friends with fellow residents.
Why similar: Western 45.3% ★, Life Sim 17.2%, Crafting 14.8%, Building 12.2%, RPG 6.7%
- #35 Out of Ore
73% matchVery Positive86% of 4,116 reviews2022
Dev: North Modding Company AB
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 42.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build your own mining company from the ground up. Extract resources, operate heavy machinery, construct infrastructure, and grow from a laborer to the King of Klondike.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Building 16.7%, Crafting 14.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Simulation 11%
- #36 Survival: Fountain of Youth
72% matchVery Positive86% of 4,471 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 20.3%, Crafting 16.5%, Survival 15.4%, Building 12.2%, Open World 11.7%
- #37 Wild West Miner Simulator
73% matchMixed63% of 120 reviews2026
Dev: Digital MelodyPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
You've become the major of a town that... doesn't exist. Nobody lives here, the governor's stupid joke. It's time to get to work and turn this NOWHERE into a bustling metropolis. Mine coal, ore, and gold. Build houses, find oil, bring in new residents, create a paradise in the middle of nowhere.
Why similar: Western 35.5% ★, Colony Sim 19.3%, Life Sim 11.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 9.6%
- #38 Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 47,723 reviews2023
Dev: Toxic DogPub: Excalibur Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.6 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 46.5%, Simulation 26.4%, First-Person 21.2%, Singleplayer 5.9%
- #39 Retreat To Enen
75% matchMixed61% of 401 reviews2022
Dev: Head WestPub: indie.io
Windows
Base building simulator 1500 years in the future. Journey to the Island of Enen to forage, craft, build, hunt, meditate, and explore across three vast biomes. Discover secrets and create the retreat of your dreams. With over 160 unique items to gather, craft, and build, every home will be unique.
Why similar: Fishing 25.8% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 10.9%
- #40 Astro Colony
70% matchVery Positive81% of 2,695 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 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 27.5%, Base Building 24%, Building 13%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 9.5%
- #41 Journey Of Life
74% matchMixed56% of 755 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 16.9%, Building 14.6%, Survival 14.2%, Open World 13.6%
- #42 Start Over
71% matchMixed61% of 379 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 20%, Crafting 17.1%, Building 14.9%, Survival 14.4%, Open World 9.9%
- #43 Fuel Station Simulator
71% matchMixed62% of 62 reviews2025
Dev: QuantumPlay Studios
Windows
Take control of your very own fuel station and transform it into a bustling business hub! Experience the perfect mix of management, customization, and exciting challenges as you serve customers, expand your services, and build your empire.
Why similar: Western 24.1% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Life Sim 14.3%, Building 13.3%, Crafting 10.2%
- #44 House of Legacy
68% matchVery Positive83% of 3,932 reviews2025
Dev: S3 StudioPub: Thermite Games
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Step into the shoes of a fallen clan leader, starting with nothing but a crumbling estate and a handful of hopes, rising through careful planning, trade, and diplomacy to become one of the most powerful families in the land. Now it’s time to forge a legendary dynasty that leaves its mark on history.
Why similar: Base Building 25.2%, Open World 23.8%, Life Sim 17.1%, RPG 11%, Simulation 9.8%
- #45 The Last FARMER
70% matchMixed57% of 311 reviews2024
Dev: GeekonPub: Midnight Games
Windows
"The Last Farmer" is not just a tale of survival; it's a journey of restoration. Amidst the sprawling deserts of a forgotten Texas, your farm becomes a symbol of hope and persistence.
Why similar: Base Building 34.5%, Survival 25.5%, Crafting 16.5%, Action-Adventure 14.2%, Adventure 6%
- #46 Pathless Woods
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,110 reviews2024
Dev: AniYa Games Studio
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Why similar: Crafting 18.4%, Base Building 18.1%, Open World 16%, Building 15.1%, Survival 14.4%
- #47 Farthest Frontier
65% matchVery Positive86% of 25,274 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, Building 28.3%, Base Building 23.1%, Survival 15.2%
- #48 Winter Survival
68% matchMixed63% of 775 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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: Base Building 20.4%, Survival 16.4%, Open World 16.2%, Building 13.4%, Crafting 12.7%
- #49 KeepUp Survival
69% matchMixed64% of 749 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Base Building 22.6%, Crafting 19.9%, Survival 18%, Open World 18%, Action-Adventure 8.3%
- #50 Farmer's Dynasty - Final Harvest Edition
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,306 reviews2019
Dev: UMEO StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Live – Build – Farm: Enjoy a unique mix of farming, constructing and life simulation that takes you to the countryside and holds plenty of challenging gameplay in stock!
Why similar: Life Sim 30.8%, Building 14.7%, Crafting 13%, Open World 12.3%, Simulation 11.9%
- #51 No Place Like Home
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 4,097 reviews2022
Dev: Chicken LauncherPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 20.4% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Life Sim 15.3%, Crafting 14.9%, Building 11.2%
- #52 Tin Star
71% matchVery Positive95% of 306 reviews2015
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Ride out into the Old West as a U.S. marshal in the biggest interactive novel ever made! Confront outlaws, find romance, defy the elements, and craft an enduring legend as you uncover a conspiracy whose deadly web stretches from San Francisco to New York City.
Why similar: Western 61.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, RPG 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 5.9%
- #53 Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders
68% matchMixed69% of 1,104 reviews2024
Dev: MeanAstronautsPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders is an action-adventure RPG with base-building elements, where you take on the role of a classic hero who stands up to the tyranny and injustice that haunts Sherwood. Fight, craft, steal, and of course help the local people grow and prosper.
Why similar: Base Building 19.6%, Crafting 15.2%, Building 14.7%, Open World 14.6%, Survival 11.4%
- #54 Wildmender
67% matchVery Positive84% of 2,220 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
Why similar: Base Building 22.6%, Crafting 18.7%, Survival 15.5%, RPG 11.3%, Simulation 10.7%
- #55 Mirthwood
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,363 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Ridge GamesPub: V Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Embark on an enchanting journey and brave ferocious creatures in an immersive medieval fantasy world. Will you settle a new homestead to live a life of farming and trade, or pick up the sword and take up the adventurers' path?
Why similar: Fishing 30.3% ★, Crafting 17.1%, Life Sim 15.7%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 10.4%
- #56 Above Snakes: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive90% of 1,871 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: Western 33.3% ★, Crafting 17.1%, Base Building 16.8%, Open World 11.2%, Survival 10.3%
- #57 Stranded: Alien Dawn
65% matchVery Positive84% of 11,281 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.1 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 26.6%, Colony Sim 22.8%, Survival 18.6%, Crafting 15%, Simulation 7.2%
