- #1 Craft Hero
97% matchVery Positive83% of 412 reviews2022
Dev: PandaCat 熊喵独立游戏Pub: OKJOY
Windows
Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night! A new minimalism sandbox survival with countless new ideas – Craft Hero
Why similar: Sandbox 18.8%, Building 14%, Crafting 13.9%, Roguelike 12.5%, Roguelite 11.4%
- #2 Domino Chillbox
96% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: SOLOFORGE WORKS
Windows
Welcome to my first game! Enjoy total freedom in this sandbox domino builder. Play with physics, test out unique special dominoes to spice things up, or use the image-to-domino generator for instant fun. Build, experiment, and have fun knocking them down!
Why similar: Sandbox 28.7%, Simulation 24%, Minimalist 20.1%, Building 18.1%, 3D 8.8%
- #3 Luminastadt
96% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Markus Korda
Windows
It is a non-objective sandbox builder. Build in a procedurally generated world. No management, no combat, no goals, no objectives, no points.
Why similar: Sandbox 27%, Minimalist 20.6%, Building 19.2%, Simulation 14.4%, Procedural Generation 6.8%
- #4 Liv: Nordic Survival
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sascha StrackPub: Code Strack
Windows
You are LIV. Naked and with no memory, you awaken on a mysterious island. Discover who you are. Hunt, build, craft – survive cold, hunger, and madness. Learn, evolve, and uncover the secret that seems to slumber beneath the surface.
Why similar: Hunting 22% ★, Sandbox 20.2%, Building 12.6%, Simulation 11.6%, Third Person 10.7%
- #5 Surviwall
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Teneke Kafalar
Windows
Survive between 4 walls. The ever-shifting center brings new resources and surprises every time. 🌲🪓
Why similar: Hunting 21.1% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.5%, Roguelite 10.7%
- #6 Layer Hunt
94% matchMixed60% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Edvin Andersson
Windows
Layer Hunt is a singleplayer, survival sandbox game where the goal is to survive and hunt down all the bosses. To reach your goal you will have to mine, craft, build, farm, fight and explore for new abilities and resources.
Why similar: Hunting 25.2% ★, Sandbox 15.9%, Building 12.7%, Roguelike 11.9%, Crafting 10.9%
- #7 The Risen Survival
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Engine
Windows · Linux
The Risen Survival is an open-world survival game featuring intense PvE & PvP, base building, crafting, and relentless zombies. Gather resources, expand your base, fight for valuable loot, and compete with other players in a persistent online world
Why similar: Hunting 27.2% ★, Sandbox 17.4%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.5%, Base Building 8.8%
- #8 Elon
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MonoBehavior Games
Windows
After a mysterious accident you are left are stranded, floating through space on a piece of a space station. Craft supplies and Hubs to expand what is now your home. But be warned space is a dangerous places where one mistake can mean certain death. Can you defy the odds and survive in space?
Why similar: Sandbox 20.6%, Building 13.2%, Futuristic 11.5%, Simulation 11.3%, Crafting 11%
- #9 Beastmaster
91% match8 user reviews13% of 8 reviews2022
Dev: 鱼鱼游戏
Windows
Build, explore and survive in a struggle for survival against animals and mutants on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Hunting 26.8% ★, Sandbox 16.9%, Building 14.4%, Crafting 12.5%, Simulation 8.8%
- #10 Everlost
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: kub3sqtPub: Orivilon
Windows
Stranded in a world that never stops growing. Gather, craft, build and survive in an infinite procedurally generated wilderness where no two worlds are ever the same.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.3%, Building 21%, Crafting 17.1%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 9.5%
- #11 Cloud 9
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mantra Games
Windows
After surviving a gravitational anomaly, humankind must find a home among the floating rocks in the skies. Build a home in the clouds, fly an airship, battle dragons, collect supplies, and help the Cloud 9 initiative rekindle humanity in this new era of survival.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.9%, Building 15.1%, Crafting 12.7%, Third Person 12.3%, Simulation 12%
- #12 Dwarf Land
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Popcorn GameMovia
Windows
Embark on a journey in Dwarf Land, a procedurally generated open world. Master modular building amidst dense forests and towering peaks. Unleash creativity in crafting, hunting, and mining. Discover dwarven culture in a vibrant sandbox simulation. Dwarf Land awaits, a realm of endless possibilities.
Why similar: Hunting 23.6% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 13%, Crafting 11.5%, Third Person 10.6%
- #13 WhyTaoism
89% matchNo user reviews2080
Dev: Dust
Windows
Why Taoism Is an adventure game that explores spirituality and transcendence. In this game, players will take on the role of a group of beings who follow the legends of the ancient immortals and hope to ascend in order to transcend.
Why similar: Sandbox 25.7%, Roguelite 24.2%, Building 15.7%, Third Person 14.5%, Base Building 12%
- #14 Club Security Simulator
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Samet
Windows
Take on the role of a bouncer and survive chaotic nights in this roguelike. Manage an unpredictable crowd, detect threats, and decide who gets the noose. Your choices dictate the club's atmosphere... or trigger a riot.
Why similar: Simulation 26.6%, Roguelike 26.1%, Roguelite 23.2%, Third Person 11.9%, 3D 8.1%
- #15 Tower Lab
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 158 reviews2026
Dev: Devon Powell
Windows · Mac
Enemies have no health, push them off instead. Weaponize physics in this physics-sandbox-inspired tower defense game with multiple game modes. Draft a deck, chain towers into living contraptions, grow and shrink every projectile, and launch hordes of robots off the edge.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.4%, Building 15.9%, Roguelike 15.4%, Roguelite 14.4%, Simulation 9.9%
- #16 NULL.Process
87% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Morlex Studio
Windows
Navigate a procedurally generated factory using limited LiDAR visibility. Scavenge for resources and vital upgrades to improve your abilities and keep your mechanical shell operational. Every run is a unique formation of rooms, upgrades, and secrets.
Why similar: Roguelike 28.8%, Minimalist 23.7%, Roguelite 14.3%, Survival 11.8%, Futuristic 9.3%
- #17 Exot
86% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: PH Networks
Windows
Discover a still unexplored region of space: the Exot galaxy. With your C.L.I.C. as your only ally, obtain the resources necessary for your survival. Develop your ship, improve your workshops, face creatures to conquer these hostile lands.
Why similar: Sandbox 23.1%, Building 18.7%, Crafting 17.1%, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 10.3%
- #18 End of Everything
84% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Happy Dayz Games
Windows
Survive a first-person world overrun by the infected in End of Everything. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons and tools, build shelters, and explore a hostile wasteland filled with secrets and hidden quests. Play solo and adapt to survive.
Why similar: Hunting 31.6% ★, Sandbox 18.7%, Building 13.5%, Crafting 13.4%, Base Building 9%
- #19 Missing Plane: Survival
85% matchMostly Negative36% of 25 reviews2022
Dev: SU Games
Windows
You survived a plane crash, and now you will need to find a way to be rescued, for that you will be building an SOS signal and wait for a rescue. In the meantime you will need to eat, drink and build stuff to stay alive
Why similar: Hunting 35.5% ★, Building 19.5%, Crafting 16.4%, Simulation 10.2%, Base Building 9.2%
- #20 Stellacore: Mining Odyssey
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gonga Games
Windows
Stellacore: Mining Odyssey blends twin-stick combat with deep resource mining in a fast-paced 2D space shooter. Shatter block-built enemies piece by piece, crack asteroids for precious ores, and forge your loot into powerful ship upgrades!
Why similar: Roguelike 30.1%, Roguelite 27.2%, Minimalist 18%, Futuristic 13.7%, Sci-fi 6.4%
- #21 Domino Sandbox
83% matchPositive88% of 17 reviews2021
Dev: Cuddle Code
Windows
Minimalist style domino sandbox. Build your domino effect with unlimited pieces, customizable colors and reversibility.
Why similar: Sandbox 26.2%, Building 23.1%, Minimalist 21%, Simulation 11.7%, Crafting 10.6%
- #22 Outpost
82% matchVery Positive87% of 796 reviews2020
Dev: Open Mid Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Outpost brings the perfect mix between survival and roguelite gameplay. Start the game in a randomly generated environment and try to adapt, and make it through as many nights as possible. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Roguelike 17.4%, Roguelite 16.4%, Building 14.5%, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 9.6%
- #23 Wildlands Resurgence
82% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: PhantomCore StudioPub: PhantomCore PUBLISHING
Windows
section for a game where players need to survive from wildlife, mine resources, craft items and structures, and even form tribes:
Why similar: Sandbox 27.5%, Building 18.6%, Crafting 15.5%, Base Building 9.2%, Survival 8.6%
- #24 Gravity
81% matchPositive93% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: Tiny Castle Games
Windows
Test your problem solving skills and creativity in over 80 physics-based puzzles. Hours of fun for the completionist with challenges for every level and over 30 unlockables!
Why similar: Sandbox 24%, Building 21.1%, Simulation 14.2%, Crafting 13.2%, Minimalist 10.9%
- #25 残存之物 Remnants
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Storm101
Windows
A survival crafting game set after an AI uprising. Stranded on a 4km × 4km island, you must gather resources, build shelter, and craft weapons to survive. Currently in early development, with core systems evolving and new content planned.
Why similar: Sandbox 24%, Building 20.6%, Crafting 16.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11.9%
- #26 Lab Craft Survival
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 30 reviews2020
Dev: DorimePub: DoriTeam
Windows
Unique survival game with interesting mechanics: reproduction, infinite character development, diseases and treatments, evolution, herbalism, farming, building, ecosystem, flexible mechanics, ever-changing and complicating environment.
Why similar: Hunting 25.4% ★, Sandbox 17.8%, Building 13.4%, Crafting 12.8%, Minimalist 10.9%
- #27 FossilFrontier
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: M'Sprj
Windows
This game is about exploring the desert, digging up fossils, and reconstructing them.
Why similar: Sandbox 31.8%, Simulation 26.9%, Third Person 16.5%, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 10.7%
- #28 Stranded B
79% matchMixed56% of 16 reviews2022
Dev: S GameTime
Windows
Slip into the role of a refugee prisoner who has a boat accident while on the run and is stranded on an island. Craft your tools and weapons, collect whatever you can find, and build your own home. Discover, build, hunt, craft, loot, survive!
Why similar: Hunting 30.1% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 10.9%, Third Person 10.3%
- #29 On Island
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SystemGames P.S.A.
Windows
On Island is a game where you must survive on a mysterious archipelago and recover your memories. Enter a world where every day brings new challenges. Complete quests, experience an amazing adventure, and find your way to escape!
Why similar: Sandbox 26.6%, Building 18.2%, Third Person 14.2%, Crafting 12.1%, 3D 8.4%
- #30 Craft In Abyss
78% matchVery Positive83% of 54 reviews2021
Dev: FirePillar2
Windows
Craft in Abyss is a tower defense rogue-lite game. It allow players to design their own mechanical fortress, gather resources and continuously strengthen the fortress facilities within a sci-fi world.
Why similar: Roguelite 17.2%, Roguelike 15.7%, Crafting 15.5%, Building 15.5%, Simulation 12.9%
- #31 Domino Effect: Build and Topple
78% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: nilio
Windows · Linux
Domino Effect is a sandbox simulation for domino toppling. You have infinite dominoes in your hand to build whatever you want.
Why similar: Sandbox 30.7%, Simulation 24.8%, Building 21%, Crafting 16.8%, 3D 6.4%
- #32 Object Factory
76% match9 user reviews56% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Kistler Studios
Windows · Linux
A unique take on factory building — design and optimize flowing 3D systems where routing and space are your most valuable resources. Start with guided challenges, then expand into an endless sandbox focused on efficiency, scale, and layout mastery.
Why similar: Sandbox 16.3%, Futuristic 15.6%, Building 15.1%, Minimalist 14.7%, Crafting 10.9%
- #33 Common'hood
77% matchMixed51% of 342 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: Building 18.2%, Sandbox 17.8%, Crafting 15.4%, Simulation 13.4%, Minimalist 12.4%
- #34 Pressure Works
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Urban Legend Games
Windows
Snap together pneumatic parts, connect them with hoses, and build machines that actually work. Pressure is both muscle and wiring: drive cylinders, gear down a crank engine, and build logic circuits out of valves. Then take a seat and drive what you built.
Why similar: Sandbox 33.1%, Building 22.1%, Simulation 21.3%, Crafting 16.4%, 3D 6.1%
- #35 Graveyard Warden
74% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Clockwork Origins
Windows · Mac · Linux
Inherit a neglected graveyard, prepare graves, craft coffins and tombstones, and manage daily burials. Restore your cemetery, explore the surrounding area, and uncover the secrets behind your inheritance.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.3%, Building 24.5%, Simulation 23.4%, Crafting 18.2%, 3D 6.3%
- #36 Primestone
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MrBeef
Windows
Primestone is a brutal stone age survival-craft game that won’t hold your grubby little hand. Use your big, beautiful brain to invent tools, tame fire, outsmart rival tribes - and maybe uncover the ruins of something much older than you.
Why similar: Hunting 20.7% ★, Sandbox 19.5%, Crafting 14.8%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 10.1%
- #37 Survivor Island
76% matchMixed63% of 27 reviews2018
Dev: SGStudio Games
Windows · Linux
Try to survive on this island by collecting resources and building items that will help keep you alive.
Why similar: Sandbox 25%, Building 19%, Crafting 17.7%, Third Person 12%, Survival 10.5%
- #38 Dungeon Cafe
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pango Games
Windows
Build your dream café... or die trying. In this fast-paced co-op base builder, you’ll cook, fight, and automate your way through a chaotic kitchen as you gather ingredients by slaying monsters and prepare magical meals for the Demon Overlord’s ever-hungry army.
Why similar: Sandbox 24.6%, Building 19.9%, Crafting 17%, Third Person 11.6%, Base Building 11.2%
- #39 Physics Cake
75% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2021
Dev: Merriman Games
Windows
Physics Cake is a 2-D physics simulation game where you can draw containers, objects, or anything you want really and put whatever chosen physical object you want inside of it.
Why similar: Sandbox 29.7%, Building 25.9%, Simulation 24.7%, Minimalist 18%, Casual 1.4%
- #40 Untitled Automation Game
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Galactic Circuit Studio
Windows
Destroy every sentient being on a planet far, far away from Earth using automation cubes and a little magic!
Why similar: Sandbox 20.7%, Building 17.6%, Crafting 12.7%, Third Person 9.1%, Simulation 8.8%
- #41 Invirium
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Art Games Studio S.A.
Windows
Try to challenge the uncontrollable microorganisms world. You are only one - small cell against many pathogens to exterminate. Save the human body and reach the inner body nirvana.
Why similar: Roguelike 29.5%, Sandbox 28.2%, Roguelite 22.3%, Simulation 8.3%, 3D 6.9%
- #42 CrisisX
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hero Games
Windows
Immerse yourself into a realistic open world experience and find your way out in the ruins of a dying world. Survive the threats from the Infected, the living and most importantly, the wilderness. Fight or cooperate with others, and establish your territory. Build your own new post-apocalyptic world
Why similar: Hunting 23.7% ★, Sandbox 17.4%, Building 12.4%, Third Person 12.3%, Crafting 11.3%
- #43 50 Days To Survive
72% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: NullReferenceGames
Windows
You find yourself alone in the middle of a desert, and devoid of all hope. Quickly find what to eat, what to drink, what to shelter you, and improve your comfort of life to avoid death. Can you survive for 50 days? Let's see that.
Why similar: Hunting 36.4% ★, Building 15.8%, Crafting 15.6%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 8.5%
- #44 Ant Idea
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Castan Studio
Windows
Turn-based strategy wargame.Choose different stories,lead squad to survive and achieve various victories.Build and manage your home.Adventure the complex and ever-changing natural,harvest unpredictable rewards.Swords and sustenance,strategy and intuition,conflict and compromise.Embark and good luck!
Why similar: Sandbox 25.7%, Roguelite 19.8%, Roguelike 14.9%, Building 12.4%, Base Building 10%
- #45 Triton Survival
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 41 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: Sandbox 21%, Building 17.1%, Crafting 14.7%, Third Person 10.2%, Base Building 9.9%
- #46 Scrap Mechanic
64% matchVery Positive92% of 123,030 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 65.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Sandbox 24.7%, Building 23.9%, Crafting 16.6%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 8.6%
- #47 Sacrifice of The Spirit
71% matchMixed44% of 16 reviews2022
Dev: Luiz Felipe Da Silva MarianPub: MushRoom Angels games
Windows
A fugitive hunter made a terrible mistake by taking the life of a pureblood animal, but Mother Nature didn't let it go, the forest spirits punished him. Now he will brutally fight for survival in a cursed indigenous forest. Are you able to survive?
Why similar: Hunting 33.6% ★, Building 16.7%, Crafting 15.6%, Base Building 11%, Survival 9.9%
- #48 Master Builder
70% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Ali A.
Windows
Master builder is a minimalist structural integrity based building game that players can make many kind of structure.
Why similar: Building 23%, Simulation 21.8%, Minimalist 18.4%, Sandbox 17.3%, Base Building 13.9%
- #49 ENDGAME: Survival
69% matchMixed45% of 40 reviews2023
Dev: AGames
Windows
Big group of people will be dropped into a deserted island where they will have to survive.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.5%, Building 19%, Crafting 17.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Simulation 12.3%
- #50 Metaverse Construction Kit
71% matchMixed67% of 227 reviews2015
Dev: Metaware
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 31%
The Metaverse Construction Kit is a virtual environment to construct your own 3D creations. Use the twenty-four structural elements to define your structures and then style your creations with sixty-four material types like organics, metals, minerals, and composites. Then Publish!
Why similar: Sandbox 42.9%, Building 34.1%, Simulation 16.1%, Crafting 5.9%, Casual 0.8%
- #51 Float Night
70% matchMixed70% of 60 reviews2018
Dev: Meng Games
Windows
Float Night is a small sandbox game that is easy to collect resources, simple to build, no craft, and sustainable.
Why similar: Sandbox 55.7%, Building 14.3%, Simulation 14.1%, Base Building 6.3%, Survival 4.9%
- #52 Defective Sectors
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Beacon Trapdoor Studios
Windows
Explore Plaza Pervium, find out what happened and reverse the lockdown. Use vehicles, weapons, turrets and traps to protect your outposts.
Why similar: Hunting 25.8% ★, Sandbox 20.9%, Building 15.5%, Crafting 13.9%, Survival 10%
- #53 The Rule of Land: Pioneers
67% matchMixed68% of 335 reviews2023
Dev: Horgee GamesPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
This is a survival game. After the coronation, human beings had to move into the underground. Fifty years later, some people thought the disaster was over and organized a survival competition on the surface. Some brave people took part in the competition . You are one of them.
Why similar: Hunting 30.3% ★, Building 14.1%, Crafting 13.2%, Roguelike 10.3%, Base Building 9.7%
- #54 Custom Machinery
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 17 reviews2021
Dev: OldFarmerPub: OldFarmerGames
Windows
Build vehicles and other machines, configure their parts and use these machines however you like. You can also save your builds in text files and share them anywhere on the internet!
Why similar: Sandbox 33.6%, Building 23.6%, Simulation 12.4%, Futuristic 9.1%, Sci-fi 8.4%
- #55 Wanderlost
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Eli SegalPub: Crytivo
Windows
Survive then thrive in a zombie-infested world. Gather materials, craft diverse weapons and tools, build and fortify a shelter, explore a massive world filled with the secrets of a dead civilization and whatever you do: stay clear of the…
Why similar: Sandbox 16.4%, Roguelite 16.3%, Building 15.5%, Roguelike 13.2%, Crafting 11%
- #56 Snap Game
65% matchMostly Positive77% of 99 reviews2026
Dev: BegulaPub: IQ GROUP
Windows · Mac · Linux
A chaotic multiplayer building game where creativity and teamwork collide. Build together, experiment freely, and see what wild ideas you and your friends can create.
Why similar: Sandbox 32.6%, Building 24.2%, Minimalist 18.8%, Simulation 15.4%, 3D 8.8%
- #57 Mine Digger
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mine Digger
Windows
Mine Digger is a minimalist mining game where you dig deeper, uncover hidden riches, upgrade your tools, and turn a simple hole in the ground into a profitable underground empire.
Why similar: Sandbox 30.9%, Simulation 25.1%, Building 19.9%, Crafting 14.3%, 3D 9.5%
- #58 Making Waves
68% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Unexpected Developments Ltd
Windows
A small cosy game about building model buildings.
Why similar: Sandbox 42.3%, Minimalist 25.5%, Building 18.3%, 3D 12.2%, Casual 1.4%
- #59 Remnant Frontier: Survival
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Narrative Escape Games
Windows
The Remnants of humanity send an augmented human to a seemingly uninhabited alien frontier. From sticks and stones, build the tools required to complete the Quantum Gate Terminus and save the world. A relaxed yet deep and engaging Rogue-lite Card Based Adventure; Combine, Explore, Learn & Build.
Why similar: Roguelike 18.3%, Crafting 17.2%, Roguelite 16.4%, Building 13.2%, Futuristic 11.8%