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The Planet Crafter 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.

Similarity 59%
Price 23.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 10 Apr 2024
The Front The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.

Similarity 58%
Price -37% 12.45€
Rating 6.7
Release 11 Oct 2023
Scrap Mechanic 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!

Similarity 58%
Price 19.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 19 Jan 2016
Colony Survival Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Similarity 58%
Price 24.95€
Rating 8.9
Release 16 Jun 2017
Xsyon - Prelude Xsyon is a player driven apocalyptic fantasy sandbox MMORPG, set in a living and evolving environment. Players create the world they want to live in as they form tribes, construct towns, shape landscapes, create quests, hunt, farm, gather, build societies and develop a New World.

Similarity 57%
Price 27.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 29 Dec 2014
Factory Town Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Similarity 57%
Price -89% 2.31€
Rating 8.8
Release 17 Nov 2021
Forever Skies A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.

Similarity 57%
Price 28.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 14 Apr 2025
Abiotic Factor Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

Similarity 57%
Price -59% 14.22€
Rating 9.4
Release 22 Jul 2025
Rem Survival Tackle starvation, dehydration, thermal conditions, radiation poisoning, and toxic gas inhalation while trying to keep your sanity intact. Shack up, cook some chicken, and make friends or enemies as you discover, explore, learn, build, and develop your skills needed for a true survival experience.

Similarity 57%
Price 15.79€
Rating 7.2
Release 05 Mar 2021
Don't Starve Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Similarity 57%
Price 8.19€
Rating 9.5
Release 23 Apr 2013
Remains 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!

Similarity 57%
Price 7.79€
Rating 7.3
Release 08 Jun 2021
Mist Survival MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t

Similarity 56%
Price 8.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 14 Aug 2018
Pathless Woods Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.

Similarity 56%
Price -25% 14.69€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 Apr 2024
Mr. Prepper Mr. Prepper is about being prepared. You know something is wrong. The risk of a nuclear war is in the air and you need to get ready for what's coming.

Similarity 56%
Price -97% 0.61€
Rating 7.8
Release 18 Mar 2021
Enshrouded You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Similarity 56%
Price -40% 18.16€
Rating 8.5
Release 24 Jan 2024
Noble Fates Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

Similarity 56%
Price 20.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 14 Dec 2021
Techtonica Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

Similarity 55%
Price 28.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 07 Nov 2024
Smalland: Survive the Wilds Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

Similarity 55%
Price -77% 8.17€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Feb 2024
Automation Empire Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!

Similarity 54%
Price 24.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 20 Nov 2019
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ The only survival crafting game set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth™. Embark on an epic journey to reclaim the Dwarven homeland of Moria, and explore, craft, and build in procedurally generated worlds. Play as a solo adventurer, or join friends in co-op gameplay for up to 8 players.

Similarity 54%
Price 24.50€
Rating 8.1
Release 27 Aug 2024
Stationeers Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Similarity 54%
Price 33.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 12 Dec 2017
Forager The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Similarity 54%
Price -45% 11.19€
Rating 8.8
Release 18 Apr 2019
Miniland Adventure The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!

Similarity 54%
Price 10.00€
Rating 7.0
Release 10 Apr 2023
CryoFall CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!

Similarity 53%
Price -98% 0.46€
Rating 7.7
Release 29 Apr 2021