- #1 Oceaneers
96% matchVery Positive89% of 80 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 20% ★, Colony Sim 14.6%, Crafting 10%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 6.7%
- #2 Red Planet: Survive
97% matchNegative12% of 49 reviews2017
Dev: Silent Parrot Studio
Windows
Red Planet: Survive is a first person survival game for Microsoft Windows. Surviving in the harsh conditions of the Red Planet will be hard, but if you are strong enough, you will succeed. Find the best way to survive, but be careful, since each wrong step will ensure your demise. The environment is your main enemy.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Space Sim 9.6%, Survival 8.9%, Crafting 7.4%, Base Building 6.8%
- #3 Solar System Colonist
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Asteroid MinersPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
The conquest of the Solar System has begun – prove yourself as a space colonist! Pilot the spaceship, choose the planet you wish to inhabit and build your new home. However, remember that there are no rules or laws in outer space. Don't underestimate the danger and stay vigilant – enemies are near!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Space 10.4%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 9.2%, Sci-fi 7.5%
- #4 Untethered
95% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: True Anomaly Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Untethered is a space survival-sandbox set in our own cosmic backyard. Explore zero-gravity environments, build and operate realistic space stations, and fight to stay alive in the unforgiving realm of deep space.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.6% ★, Space Sim 11.7%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 8.8%, Space 7.9%
- #5 Space Trash Scavenger
94% matchVery Positive84% of 518 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 26.5% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 8.8%, Space 8.2%, Space Sim 7.6%
- #6 Starship Colony
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17%, Space Sim 11.5%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 8.9%, Management 8.3%
- #7 Stardeus
93% matchVery Positive87% of 1,534 reviews2022
Dev: Kodo LinijaPub: Paradox Arc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 13.9%, Space Sim 10.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 8.2%, Space 7.8%
- #8 XenoHaven
92% 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 25.1% ★, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 9.2%, Base Building 9.1%
- #9 Remains
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 318 reviews2021
Dev: SoloQ
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.1%, Space 8.7%, Base Building 7.9%
- #10 No Man's Sky
91% matchVery Positive85% of 406,987 reviews2016
Dev: Hello Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 20.2 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Space 11.4%, Open World 10.1%, Survival 8.2%, Space Sim 7.5%
- #11 Moon Colony Crafter
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: InfinityCoders
Windows
Play as an astronaut on our moon in the future. Your task is to prepare the moon for future colonies by terraforming. Collect resources, explore procedurally generated caves, build buildings and create a second world for you and our earth.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Base Building 8.9%, Open World 7.5%
- #12 Triton Survival
89% matchMixed70% of 33 reviews2025
Dev: Family Devs
Windows
Triton Survival is an open world survival game about exploration, construction, engineering, and fighting on planets. Embark on this interstellar adventure and conquer the galaxy. Are you ready?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 15.1% ★, Space Sim 13.2%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 9.1%, Space 9.1%
- #13 Force of Nature
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 7.3%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #14 PoliPlanet
88% 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: Open World Survival Craft 15.5% ★, Crafting 11%, Base Building 9.1%, Space Sim 8.7%, Colony Sim 7.9%
- #15 Gateworlds
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hydrarch
Windows · Mac
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, Open World Survival Craft 14.5% ★, Survival 10.4%, Base Building 7.5%, Crafting 7.3%
- #16 Space
86% 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 19.4% ★, Space Sim 11.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.3%, Space 8.7%
- #17 Terra Taker
86% 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 28.2% ★, Colony Sim 13.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 9.3%, Base Building 8.7%
- #18 Eden Crafters
83% matchVery Positive86% of 2,425 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 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 27.1% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Colony Sim 8.4%, Base Building 8.3%, Survival 7.5%
- #19 Breathedge
84% matchVery Positive82% of 16,224 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 34.9% ★, Space 11.3%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 8.9%, Base Building 8.4%
- #20 AstroPlanet
84% matchMixed67% of 43 reviews2025
Dev: VIVA
Windows
AstroPlanet is a sandbox game where you find yourself in the role of an astronaut whose ship has crashed on a planet with an inhospitable atmosphere. Your task is not only to survive, but also to turn this world into a habitable place.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 10%, Base Building 9.9%, Space 8.1%
- #21 Hostile Mars
82% 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 20.5% ★, Survival 10%, Colony Sim 9.3%, Space Sim 7.9%, Building 7.2%
- #22 Space Haven
80% matchVery Positive86% of 10,442 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.2%, Space Sim 11.4%, Survival 8.9%, Management 8.4%, Base Building 8.2%
- #23 Life Not Supported
82% matchMixed67% of 172 reviews2023
Dev: YETIBYTES
Windows · Linux
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 29.3% ★, Crafting 12%, Survival 10.3%, Space 9.4%, Base Building 8.8%
- #24 Lunar Impact
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Artem Rumyantsev
Windows
Go to the Moon to explore its harsh nature and mysterious anomalies. Build your own lunar base, craft equipment, extract valuable resources and make many discoveries. Overcome the challenges of extreme lunar conditions, an oxygen-free atmosphere and much more unknown...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Space Sim 11.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 7.8%
- #25 Craterbound
81% matchMixed54% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Marquez
Windows
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 28.6% ★, Space Sim 10.9%, Survival 10%, Crafting 10%, Space 9.3%
- #26 ASTRONEER
79% matchVery Positive92% of 137,959 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 31.7% ★, Survival 11.2%, Space 10.7%, Open World 9.1%, Base Building 7.8%
- #27 Drift: Space Survival
79% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 34.7% ★, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Space 10.5%, Base Building 6.3%
- #28 Cosmorists
78% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Stellar Roots
Windows
You find yourself completely alone on a different yet very familiar looking planet. Explore the planet, craft tools, fight enemies, and build bases! Do science to learn new technologies that will allow interplanetary travel and better tools at your disposal!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 10.3%, Open World 9%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #29 Starfall Protocol
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chaos Systematic
Windows
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.7%, Space Sim 15.8%, Base Building 9%, Sandbox 7.5%, Open World 7.2%
- #30 WarpedSpace
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WarpedSpaceGame
Windows
WarpedSpace is a sci-fi survival adventure game set in deep space. A massive, open environment full of wonder and peril awaits you!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Space Sim 14.1%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 9.8%, Space 8.2%
- #31 Skyformer
75% matchVery Positive87% of 67 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 27.9% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 9.7%, Base Building 8.8%, Space 7.9%
- #32 Zenith Expanse
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Glitched Phoenix Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Command a damaged scout ship in a living space colony survival sim. Wake your crew from cryostasis, secure water and food, build fragile settlements, trade or smuggle between factions, and survive the stories that emerge.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5%, Survival 10.4%, Space Sim 10.1%, Base Building 9.5%, Management 9.4%
- #33 Astrometica
74% matchVery Positive83% of 3,055 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: Space Sim 18.1%, Open World Survival Craft 16.1% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 11.5%, Space 9.1%
- #34 Signs of Life
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 841 reviews2014
Dev: Sweet Dog Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.6% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 10.9%, Sandbox 10.4%, Space 7.3%
- #35 Prospector
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 152 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.3% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Base Building 8.7%, Survival 7.9%, Space 7.9%
- #36 GRAV
76% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 39.1% ★, Survival 13.5%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 9%
- #37 Star Shelter
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 435 reviews2018
Dev: Overflow
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Space Sim 10.2%, Crafting 8.3%, Survival 7.9%, Base Building 7.8%
- #38 Chocolate Factory
73% matchMixed56% of 145 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 27.3% ★, Crafting 12%, Base Building 9.3%, Management 9%, Resource Management 7%
- #39 SpiritBorn
73% 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 37.2% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 9.5%, Base Building 7.9%
- #40 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,680 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 31.6% ★, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 11.4%, Base Building 9.7%, Open World 8.3%
- #41 One More World
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cozy Orchards
Windows
At One More World, Inc, our mission is to be the ultimate safeguard for planets in need. With our extraordinary team strategically scattered across the universe, we can swiftly confront and conquer any challenges that threaten planetary harmony. Are you ready to join the team?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Survival 10.4%, Space Sim 10.3%, Crafting 9.5%, Space 9.5%
- #42 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 201 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 27.6% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 9.6%, Management 9.1%, Survival 7.5%
- #43 The Planet Crafter
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 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 28.5% ★, Crafting 10%, Survival 9.7%, Base Building 9.2%, Space 8.1%
- #44 Cubits
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mango Nebula Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take control of a talkative little Cubit, who knows he lives inside a game, and do your best to ensure both of you survive in this harsh, unforgiving world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 12%, Sandbox 8.2%, Open World 7.4%
- #45 Nimoyd - Survival Sandbox
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nudge Nudge Games
Windows
You’ve crash-landed on Earth in 2702. Craft, dig, fight through a vast and colorful post-apocalyptic open world full of wonder, generated cities, dungeons, aliens, mechs, and an underworld. Find love. Or beat the ultimate Underlord!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 12%, Sandbox 9.2%, Open World 8.8%
- #46 GreenMars: Expedition 744
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 744 Interactive
Windows
A sci-fi survival game where you explore a full planet, gather resources, build your base, deploy terraforming machines and drones, and begin turning hostile Martian terrain into the foundation of a new civilisation.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 9.8%, Space 8.6%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #47 Arcbound
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outbreak Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, Space Sim 17.6%, Base Building 11%, Management 10.4%, Crafting 7.7%
- #48 ARCANA
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thomas RandallPub: bald
Windows
An Open World Survival Crafting game where you harness magic to advance. Discover new crafting recipies, expand your base, and conquer your enemies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.2% ★, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 8.2%, Open World 6.1%
- #49 Oxygen Not Included
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 140,434 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 68.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 7.9%, Management 6.7%
- #50 Edge of Space
71% matchMostly Negative33% of 2,729 reviews2015
Dev: Handyman StudiosPub: Reverb Triple XP
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.2% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Space 8.1%, Survival 7.3%
- #51 Woodland Rebels
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Beak Berry Games
Windows · Mac
Survive an untamed world where humans, animal villagers and wild animals all coexist, but not in harmony. Craft, farm, cook, and assign roles to villagers. Explore various biomes and muster an animal rebellion to fight back against human invaders.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Colony Sim 10.8%, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #52 Crashlands
68% matchVery Positive90% of 6,682 reviews2016
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.8% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 8.6%, Base Building 8.2%
- #53 Drill Space
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Futurist3
Windows · Mac · Linux
Drill Space is a rogue-lite survival mining game where gravity shapes your journey. Explore a vibrant, randomly generated solar system, mine for resources, upgrade your ship, and defend against alien invasions. How long can you survive as you conquer the vastness of space?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.7%, Space Sim 10.4%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #54 Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival
67% 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 25.7% ★, Colony Sim 13.1%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 10.4%, Base Building 9.1%
- #55 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
65% matchVery Positive91% of 7,431 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 32.1% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Open World 7.7%, Survival 7.4%
- #56 Dig or Die
67% matchVery Positive90% of 4,269 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 10.7%, Open World 6.8%
- #57 Planet Explorers
68% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 41.2% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.7%
- #58 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,194 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Space Sim 12.2%, Survival 9.1%, Space 8.8%, Crafting 8.6%