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Eden Crafters Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Similarity 73%
Price 19.50€
Rating 8.3
Release 16 Oct 2024
Start Over Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?

Similarity 70%
Price 14.79€
Rating 6.2
Release 27 Sep 2024
FortressCraft Evolved! 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.

Similarity 70%
Price -51% 6.39€
Rating 7.0
Release 09 Nov 2015
Nova Lands 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!

Similarity 69%
Price -98% 0.43€
Rating 8.7
Release 22 Jun 2023
Atrio: The Dark Wild 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.

Similarity 68%
Price 16.79€
Rating 7.7
Release 10 Jan 2023
Hold Your Own A single player open world sandbox, crafting and survival FPS game set in a multi-island land where you'll fight to survive. Build your base, hunt and craft to defend yourself from aggressive wildlife, enemies or friends. Do you have what it takes to Hold Your Own?

Similarity 67%
Price 13.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 30 Nov 2017
FOUNDRY Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

Similarity 67%
Price 29.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 May 2024
Factorio Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Similarity 67%
Price -14% 27.74€
Rating 9.6
Release 14 Aug 2020
Craft Hero 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

Similarity 66%
Price 3.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 09 Oct 2022
Prospector: The First Contract As the Prospector in this Prologue chapter, you will be taking on your first contract. Explore new planets, gather resources, build your fully automated base, and ship materials to distant colonies.

Similarity 65%
Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 12 Jul 2024
Road to Eden Road to Eden is a third-person multiplayer survival coop game, set within the post-apocalyptic ruins of a world destroyed by an alien invasion. You wake up at the side of the road with no memory and must team up with other survivors to make the long and dangerous journey to Eden.

Similarity 65%
Price 16.79€
Rating 6.2
Release 28 Feb 2019
shapez shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

Similarity 64%
Price -96% 0.45€
Rating 9.4
Release 07 Jun 2020
Space Trash Scavenger 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.

Similarity 64%
Price 19.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 14 Nov 2024
Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management

Similarity 64%
Price -82% 2.95€
Rating 7.8
Release 27 May 2021
Survival: Fountain of Youth Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.

Similarity 64%
Price -80% 5.71€
Rating 8.3
Release 21 May 2024
AutoForge A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.

Similarity 63%
Price 19.50€
Rating 8.2
Release 27 Mar 2024
TerraTech Worlds 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

Similarity 62%
Price -76% 7.41€
Rating 6.1
Release 22 Mar 2024
Heat Death: Survival Train Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!

Similarity 62%
Price -31% 8.22€
Rating 7.6
Release 12 Dec 2024
MewnBase MewnBase is a space-cat survival and base-building game. Scavenge around a barren planet for items to keep you fed. Explore and collect resources. Craft items and grow your base to help you survive.

Similarity 61%
Price 8.19€
Rating 8.8
Release 30 Oct 2023
The Survivalists A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?

Similarity 60%
Price -98% 0.54€
Rating 7.5
Release 09 Oct 2020
Subsistence Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Similarity 59%
Price 13.79€
Rating 7.1
Release 25 Oct 2016
Orebound Orebound is a voxel, factory, automation game set in a first person open-world. The King has tasked you to locate the elusive Emberstone. Go forth and use your Dwarven prowess and knowledge to mine, craft and automate through anything standing in your way - Build up or dig down! How far will you go?

Similarity 59%
Price 24.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 24 Oct 2024
Satisfactory 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!

Similarity 59%
Price -39% 24.17€
Rating 9.6
Release 10 Sep 2024
Evospace Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.

Similarity 59%
Price 12.49€
Rating 7.8
Release 14 Feb 2019