- #1 Space Trash Scavenger
97% matchVery Positive83% of 528 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 22.9% ★, Automation 13.4%, Crafting 8.3%, Space Sim 7.8%, Base Building 7.4%
- #2 Untethered
96% 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 22% ★, Automation 12.7%, Space Sim 12.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #3 Eden Crafters
96% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 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 23.8% ★, Automation 14.7%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 8.7%, Colony Sim 8%
- #4 Space
95% 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 17.1% ★, Automation 12.9%, Space Sim 12.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 8.9%
- #5 Factory Survival
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Roman Software
Windows
Build and create automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 3D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally escape from creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Automation 18.4%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 8.7%, Voxel 7.5% ★
- #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 16.5%, Open World Survival Craft 14.1% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 9.5%, Space Sim 9.4%
- #7 Terra Taker
93% 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 25.5% ★, Automation 13.3%, Colony Sim 13.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 9.5%
- #8 FortressCraft Evolved!
92% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,066 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.5 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 30.9% ★, Automation 16.5%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 8.6%, Base Building 8.4%
- #9 Triton Survival
91% 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: Space Sim 14.5%, Open World Survival Craft 14.1% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 9.7%
- #10 XenoHaven
90% matchVery Positive82% of 73 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 23.6% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Sandbox 9.6%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 9.2%
- #11 Cosmorists
89% match7 user reviews100% of 7 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 27.4% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 8.9%, Open World 8.8%
- #12 ASTRONEER
89% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 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 29% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Space 10.2%, Open World 8.8%, Automation 7.4%
- #13 Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival
88% matchMixed68% of 849 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 22.4% ★, Automation 14%, Colony Sim 12.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 9.4%
- #14 Hostile Mars
87% 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 19.4% ★, Automation 12.1%, Base Building 10.2%, Colony Sim 9.8%, Building 9.7%
- #15 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
86% matchVery Positive91% of 7,668 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 28.2% ★, Automation 13.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 7.2%
- #16 Ecliptica
86% 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 23.4% ★, Colony Sim 14.2%, Automation 12.7%, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 8.9%
- #17 Astral Divide
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sébastien Aoki
Windows · Linux
You wake up alone in a damaged space station with no memories. To get out of here, you will have to build your own spaceship. But survival comes first: gather resources, build a base and a factory out of gear and steam, and explore hand-crafted planets with unique biomes and resources.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Automation 15.9%, Sandbox 9.5%, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.4%
- #18 Star Crafter
84% matchMostly Positive70% of 110 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 24.6% ★, Automation 12.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Voxel 9.7% ★, Crafting 9.6%
- #19 Chocolate Factory
84% matchMixed56% of 152 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 24.7% ★, Automation 16.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 8.5%
- #20 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
83% matchMostly Positive73% of 208 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 25% ★, Automation 17.2%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 8.5%
- #21 SpiritBorn
82% 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 33.6% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 9.4%, Open World 9.1%
- #22 {Undefined}
82% matchMixed62% of 36 reviews2021
Dev: FreshMountainStudios
Windows
A sandbox survival game, set on life-sized voxel planets with realistic physics with the possibility to shape your own building blocks. From your custom made furniture, walls to vehicle parts. You shape the blocks which can then be used to build buildings, spacecraft and aircraft.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 15.7% ★, Space Sim 14%, Automation 11.6%, Voxel 10.7% ★, Base Building 10.6%
- #23 Moose Builders
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lingon Studios
Windows
Dig sand with a shovel and process into iron, silicon and more. Craft and merge better tools and machines to build solar panels to power them. Research new machines to automate everything in multi-story factories. Play alone or with friends to survive in the desert and turn it into a solar farm.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.6% ★, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 13.6%, Voxel 8.8% ★, Crafting 8%
- #24 Golemcrafter
81% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Good Sheep Syndicate
Windows
Golemcrafter is a single-player survival crafting game where you, as a golem, explore a magical world, gather resources, build a base, harness the local wildlife, and craft powerful golems like yourself. Make friends, gain powers!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Automation 12.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 8.8%
- #25 Astro Colony
79% matchVery Positive81% of 2,730 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Automation 17.1%, Colony Sim 16.5%, Base Building 16%, Space Sim 10.9%, Space 9.8%
- #26 PlanetSmith
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Incandescent Games
Windows
A sandbox survival RPG set on fully spherical hex worlds. Crash-land on an uncharted planet, craft and build to survive, uncover what infected the solar system, then build a ship and fly seamlessly to other planets. No loading screens. No edges.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Voxel 14.5% ★, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 8.6%, Open World 6.7%
- #27 Sandustry
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Automation 16.3%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 9.3%
- #28 Deus Mantle
79% 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 27.3% ★, Automation 13.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #29 TerraTech Worlds
78% matchMixed63% of 2,297 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.3% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Automation 10.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 8.6%
- #30 X Space
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: X SPACE
Windows
A sudden, devastating strike has reduced your interstellar voyage to ruins. As the sole survivor in X SPACE, you must rebuild your space base from scratch, assemble a versatile fleet, and pilot your massive mobile fortress into the depths of the universe.
Why similar: Automation 13.7%, Space Sim 13.4%, Base Building 11%, Space 9%, Building 8.7%
- #31 The Planet Crafter
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 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 26.5% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Automation 12%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 8.6%
- #32 Reprocessed
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Macrostructura
Windows
Factory management and sandbox base building in zero-g environment. Survive, expand and then dominate space industrial market. Build large scale resource processing plant completely from nothing.
Why similar: Automation 17.6%, Base Building 14.9%, Space Sim 13.4%, Building 10%, Crafting 9.7%
- #33 Craterbound
76% matchMixed53% 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 27.5% ★, Space Sim 12.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Space 9.2%, Crafting 9.2%
- #34 Mithril
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Agentic Games
Windows
Explore and mine in procedural caves. Master using struts to delve deeper and support the ceiling before it falls. Build automation chains to process ores. Then manipulate lava and trigger Dormancy to crystallise new ore where lava once flowed. Same world. New cave. New dangers. The world remembers.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Automation 14.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 8.2%, Building 7.3%
- #35 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,722 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 29.4% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 8.2%, Automation 8%
- #36 Worlds Explorers
73% 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 19.7%, Open World Survival Craft 13.9% ★, Base Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.7%, Management 8%
- #37 Remains
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 323 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 26.8% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 9.3%, Space 9.3%
- #38 World Turned Stone
73% 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 28.7% ★, Automation 15.8%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 11.1%
- #39 Minicology
72% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Isaac DennerPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You have crash-landed into a mini-verse of tiny planets. Welcome to Minicology! Embark on an interstellar survival sandbox journey. Use your crafting, combat, and automation skills to survive the many challenges this mini-verse throws at you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.2% ★, Space Sim 18.2%, Automation 13%, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 8.1%
- #40 Candy Factory TD
72% 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 26% ★, Automation 17.5%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 7.4%
- #41 Astrometica
71% matchVery Positive82% of 3,211 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 20.5%, Open World Survival Craft 15.4% ★, Automation 14.5%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.7%
- #42 Gateworlds
71% 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: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Colony Sim 18.6%, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 7.7%, Building 7.2%
- #43 StarRupture
69% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 25.1% ★, Automation 15.6%, Colony Sim 12.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 9%
- #44 Lunar Impact
70% 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 28.2% ★, Space Sim 13.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 9.5%
- #45 Dragon Forge
71% matchMixed50% of 114 reviews2022
Dev: Legend Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become a powerful dragon & automate massive factories! Dragon Forge is an incremental base building adventure game. Uncurse & explore a huge fantasy world full of quests. Gather resources & craft upgrades to become unstoppable! Discover over 100 fables of ancient wisdom at the Dragon Forge.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.6% ★, Automation 15.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 8.4%, Open World 7.6%
- #46 Gravehollow
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silo Snowdash
Windows
Gravehollow is a survival RPG set in a restless world on the cusp of death. Hunt, scavenge, craft, build, and fight as friends and foes alike clash and pursue their own ends. Uncover why death refuses to release you, and what horrors your survival is awakening.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 9%, Open World 8.9%
- #47 Prospector
69% matchMixed70% 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 19.5% ★, Automation 15.1%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 9.2%
- #48 Starvector
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Justus BlairPub: Octopus Inc. Studios
Windows
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
Why similar: Automation 16.9%, Space Sim 12.7%, Base Building 10.4%, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 9.3%
- #49 Shamania
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 171 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 29.1% ★, Automation 12.5%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 10.1%, Base Building 8.3%
- #50 Bot Crafter
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Dreams
Windows
Construct, maintain, manage and upgrade the fleet of your space robots in this sandbox crafter. Build the base, gather resources and automate to succeed in your mission in a unique robotic spacesim.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.7% ★, Automation 12.8%, Space Sim 12.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 8.1%
- #51 LithoBreak
70% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Tau Ceti Labs
Windows
LithoBreak is an Early Access industrial survival game rebuilding toward one moon-site loop: boot up the console, build the first site, and help shape a science-driven survival sim.Play with Science
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 16.1% ★, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 13.1%, Space Sim 12%, Crafting 9.8%
- #52 AstroPlanet
67% 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 26.1% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 9.4%
- #53 Starfall Protocol
68% 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 19.5%, Space Sim 18.5%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 8.7%, Open World 7.6%
- #54 Wieldo
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Robin Nicolet
Windows
Wield your sword and your creativity to survive in this procedural world. Fight to build. Build to fight. Bring some friends and make it home 🏠
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Automation 13.1%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #55 Dawn Apart
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 264 reviews2025
Dev: Industrial Technology and WitchcraftPub: Astra Logical
Windows
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, Automation 20.5%, Base Building 16.7%, Voxel 13.1% ★, Crafting 11.1%
- #56 Satisfactory
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 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 22.2%, Base Building 19.6%, Open World Survival Craft 14% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Building 9.4%
- #57 Oceaneers
65% matchVery Positive88% of 116 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 22.8% ★, Colony Sim 18.3%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 9.5%