- #1 World Turned Stone
97% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: Tbjbu2 (GAME ON HOLD)
Windows
Civilization has turned STONE. Revive the people, terraform the world, defend against the apocalypse, and rebuild civilization from the stone age to advanced technology! Prologue link below.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.5% ★, Colony Sim 13.2%, Automation 12.5%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.1%
- #2 Terra Taker
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dream Craft
Windows
Terra Taker is an open-world survival crafting game where you build megastructures to terraform a fantasy planet. Gather resources, build automated bases, and transform floating islands, tornadoes, snowfields, lava zones, and lightning-scorched lands into a new paradise for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Colony Sim 14.6%, Automation 13.9%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10.3%
- #3 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 203 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits! The free prologue for the full game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Automation 17.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 10.9%, City Builder 9.9%
- #4 Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival
95% matchMixed69% of 845 reviews2023
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
TIME TRAVEL through history to BECOME GOD 🚀 Ride dinosaurs, forge tools, sail dunes, build a colony, siege castles, automate and fly, mine underground, launch to the moon, build a dyson sphere! An insane, unforgettable and revolutionary survival crafting base building open world adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.8% ★, Automation 14.3%, Colony Sim 13.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 9.9%
- #5 Chocolate Factory
94% matchMixed55% of 146 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Automation 17%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.9%, City Builder 9.5%
- #6 PoliPlanet
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 18.2%, Open World Survival Craft 15.4% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Colony Sim 9.3%
- #7 Eden Crafters
93% matchVery Positive86% of 2,494 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.3 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: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Automation 17.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Colony Sim 10.2%
- #8 Grand Emprise 2: Portals Apart
92% matchMixed53% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
⛏️ Survival crafting adventure 💎 🌌 Through magical portals 🌀 👹 Into fantasy worlds 🏰 ⚡ Once-in-a-lifetime, high-paced, high-variety 💨 ⏳ The sequel to Grand Emprise: Time Travel 🕰️
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Automation 14.1%, Crafting 12.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 9.4%
- #9 StarRupture
91% matchVery Positive81% of 12,717 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 23.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 26.4% ★, Automation 16.3%, Colony Sim 14.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 10%
- #10 Medieval Frontiers
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Active Fungus StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
First-person colony simulation where strategy meets survival in a demanding, medieval wilderness. Construct gridless settlements, establish production chains, and manage the needs, desires, and work morale of your villagers to ensure their survival through the harsh realities of nature and disease.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Colony Sim 16.8%, City Builder 11%, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 10.3%
- #11 World Crafter TD: Prologue
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 102 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.9 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: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Automation 16%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #12 Skyformer
89% matchVery Positive84% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Automation 18.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 8.8%
- #13 World Crafter TD
88% matchMixed46% of 647 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 31%
A highly addictive survival crafting tower defense game! Gather, craft, build turrets, shoot guns, and expand the land to defend against waves of enemies in World Crafter TD!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Automation 16%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #14 Candy Factory TD
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
Build a candy factory to defend against waves of candy creatures! A first-person tower defense factory building automation game. Manage productions, build candy turrets, expand the island, and beat the waves!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Automation 19%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #15 Survival Vacancy
86% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, Automation 15.5%, Open World Survival Craft 15.2% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.2%
- #16 Nova Lands
85% matchVery Positive89% of 3,448 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.3 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: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Automation 20.4%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 10%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #17 Vilset
86% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, Automation 18.3%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 10.2%
- #18 ALL WILL FALL
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,197 reviews2026
Dev: All Parts ConnectedPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Colony Sim 19.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Automation 12.8%, City Builder 12.8%
- #19 Alight: Lunar Survival
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
[GAME CANCELLED] Stranded in the darkness, survive and build a base scattered across the lunar surface to generate electricity and alight the moon as you upgrade your equipment, struggle for oxygen, and escape fearsome monsters. Singleplayer only, you will survive, gather, craft, build, and explore.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 9.2%
- #20 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
83% matchVery Positive91% of 7,475 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Automation 16.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #21 Civilio
82% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Aranyhal Studio
Windows
The Civiliuses dropped into unknown, but familiar planet have to rebuild infrastructure from the ground up. Build, fight, craft and explore your area, in a race against your foes or other Civiliuses to become powerfull. Do you have what it takes?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Automation 20%, Base Building 17.7%, Crafting 14.5%, Survival 14.2%
- #22 Space Crafter
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sirhyss Games
Windows
Go on an adventure in the footsteps of an ancient civilisation. Explore hostile planets, build your base and acquire the technologies of the past before they are turned to create chaos.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Automation 14.7%, Crafting 12.5%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #23 Guardians of the Sanctree
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 370 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: Open World Survival Craft 21.3% ★, Colony Sim 17.1%, Base Building 14%, Automation 14%, City Builder 12.3%
- #24 Atrio: The Dark Wild
81% matchMostly Positive80% of 596 reviews2023
Dev: Isto Inc.
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Automation 19.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 10.1%
- #25 Soulmask
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 21,804 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 68.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Colony Sim 13.9%, Automation 13.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.1%
- #26 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,685 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: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 11.7%, Automation 9.4%
- #27 Satisfactory
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 273,405 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.9 hrsMean: 110.9 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: Automation 24.8%, Base Building 20.5%, Open World Survival Craft 15.7% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #28 FortressCraft Evolved!
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,058 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.9% ★, Automation 20.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Base Building 10%, Survival 8%
- #29 Ecliptica
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: QuasarApp Group
Windows · Linux
Ecliptica is a first-person open-world colony survival simulator with a fully dynamic economy. Set on a hostile alien planet, you'll found corporations, fight for resources, and build a sustainable future—or be wiped out by ruthless nature, politics, and competition.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Colony Sim 17.9%, Automation 15.1%, Crafting 11%, Base Building 10.6%
- #30 SpiritBorn
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Highforge Studios
Windows
An open-world survival crafting RPG set among floating islands. Gather resources, craft powerful tools, unlock spirit abilities to soar between skybound realms and reclaim your lost godhood.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.1% ★, Crafting 14%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 12%, Open World 7.5%
- #31 Star Crafter
76% matchMixed70% of 105 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Automation 15.3%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 12.3%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #32 Wild
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DzernPub: Dzern and Unverändert
Windows
Wild is a survival game inspired by the "7vsWild" series. The goal is to survive, fight against dangerous animals, and build your shelter. For that, you are only allowed to take one bottle as equipment, so prepare it well in advance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 16%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 5%
- #33 Tribe: Primitive Builder
76% matchVery Positive81% of 787 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: Colony Sim 17.9%, Automation 17.8%, City Builder 13.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 10.6%
- #34 Oceaneers
73% matchVery Positive90% of 89 reviews2026
Dev: Barrel Smash Studios
Windows
A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Colony Sim 22.5%, Crafting 13%, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 10.8%
- #35 Hostile Mars
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Big Rook Games
Windows
Hostile Mars is a factory-building game focused on combat! Explore an open world and discover new tech to unlock powerful weapons and structures. Create efficient supply chains using delivery bots. Salvage destroyed enemies for resources. Design your base to withstand increasing waves of enemies!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Automation 15.2%, Colony Sim 13%, Base Building 12%, Survival 10.3%
- #36 Worlds Explorers
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pioneers Games
Windows · Linux
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, Open World Survival Craft 16.5% ★, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 10.8%, City Builder 9.8%
- #37 XenoHaven
73% matchVery Positive86% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Automation 11.8%, Survival 11.3%
- #38 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
75% matchMixed69% of 365 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Base Building 14.9%, City Builder 14.7%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 11.2%
- #39 Impossible Survival
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tbjbu2 (GAME ON HOLD)
Windows
Everything attacks you in unexpected and hilarious ways in this experimental survival crafting game. Can you beat it? Co-op supported!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 10.2%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #40 Space
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Neila Games
Windows
Stranded on a hostile alien world, you must gather resources, craft tools, and automate production to survive. Build a base, fend off deadly wildlife, and uncover ancient secrets in this immersive sci-fi survival adventure. Will you conquer the planet or succumb to its perils?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Automation 17.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 9.8%
- #41 Deus Mantle
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 1SPEED
Windows
Craft, build, fight monsters, discover new technologies and explore an infinite procedurally generated world! Delve into unknown worlds to uncover ancient secrets and return home.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Automation 16.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 10.1%
- #42 ASKA
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 11,841 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 28.6 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: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Colony Sim 18.3%, Automation 12.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 8.4%
- #43 Primal Man Simulator
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RD Games
Windows
Primal Man Simulator is a complex survival simulator where the player becomes one of the evolutionary precursors of modern homo sapiens, trying to live through another day in an unwelcoming forests of Europe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Crafting 15.8%, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Open World 8.1%
- #44 Avian Colony
71% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Ice Crystal Studio
Windows
Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Base Building 16.9%, City Builder 15.5%, Automation 13.1%, Survival 11%
- #45 The Planet Crafter
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 71,038 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 38.2 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: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Automation 14.8%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 9.6%
- #46 Galaxy Scavengers
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Base Building 21.7%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Survival 12.6%, Resource Management 12%, Automation 11.5%
- #47 Necesse
68% matchVery Positive93% of 27,406 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.9% ★, Automation 11.3%, Crafting 11.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 8.9%
- #48 Space Trash Scavenger
69% matchVery Positive84% of 520 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 33.7% ★, Automation 19.9%, Crafting 12.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.7%
- #49 Outpost Zero
71% matchMixed49% of 850 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.3% ★, Survival 14.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 6.8%
- #50 Quest Industries
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Damask
Windows
Mine resources, build a factory, hire goblins, launch a space rocket. A short and satisfying factory builder about turning a one-goblin operation into a sprawling industrial empire.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 14.1%, Resource Management 10%
- #51 As One We Survive
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Revelation Games LLC
Windows
Survive in a harsh post-apocalyptic world. Scavenge resources, build up a homestead, form a community, and defend yourself against a lawless world while joining a father's desperate journey to save his sick daughter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Colony Sim 22.6%, Survival 12%, Crafting 10.2%, Base Building 9.7%
- #52 Penkura
70% matchVery Positive90% of 198 reviews2018
Dev: LionsArt
Windows
Penkura is a sci-fi base-building survival game where you construct a colony from a top-down command system, explore an alien world in first person, and use programmable bots to gather resources, build, repair, and keep your base alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Automation 15.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 9%
- #53 Microtopia: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive95% of 121 reviews2024
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, Automation 18.4%, Base Building 13.6%, City Builder 12.5%, Crafting 11.4%
- #54 Pawnholm
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hugimugi
Windows · Linux
Island survival RTS, with mysteries behind every corner. Assign your pawns to gather, craft, fight, study, and do other errands for your kingdom. Every randomly generated island holds unique secrets to be uncovered. As the Duke of Pawnholm, will you lead your pawns to prosperity ...or to calamity?
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, Open World Survival Craft 20.6% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 15%, Survival 8.9%
- #55 Forestia
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Golden Pick Games
Windows
Armed with only a small axe, explore a forest consumed by darkness. Gather resources, craft tools, and defend the sacred altar from nightly monster assaults. Restore the altar and bring life back to the land in this 2D survival action fantasy game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Crafting 14%, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 11%
- #56 Under A New Sun
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 388 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 12%, Open World 7.6%
- #57 Shamania
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 150 reviews2026
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Crafting 15.8%, Automation 15.2%, Survival 11.6%, Base Building 9.5%
- #58 Far Fetched
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KiwiPastaPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Dive into the hazy and cold world of Far Fetched, where dangers lurk in the fog and only the glittering embers of the Traveling Node can keep you safe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.2% ★, Base Building 18.4%, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 7%, Adventure 5.8%