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XERA: Survival Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…

Similarity 45%
Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 26 Sep 2021
Crea Progress with every slain monster, learn over 80 skills through talents, craft hundreds of items, and explore vast procedurally-generated worlds in this ever-expanding sandbox RPG!

Similarity 45%
Price -68% 4.49€
Rating 7.3
Release 09 Jun 2016
Tower Factory Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?

Similarity 44%
Price -20% 11.83€
Rating 8.2
Release 07 Nov 2024
Wanted Raccoon WANTED RACCOON is a 3rd person raccoon simulator with a storyline and extensive research space. Steal food, ride a skateboard, be inconspicuous, fight with people, create equipment, upgrade skills, lead resistance and find a kidnapped family!

Similarity 44%
Price 16.49€
Rating 7.2
Release 19 Mar 2021
Arid Discover the mysteries of the Atacama, explore the abandoned mining networks, evade the scorching sun and survive the environment in one of the most arid place in the world. Arid is a FREE survival game made by students from Breda University.

Similarity 44%
Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 29 Jun 2021
Havendock Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.

Similarity 44%
Price -98% 0.49€
Rating 8.1
Release 22 Apr 2025
Outpath An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Similarity 44%
Price -53% 6.96€
Rating 9.0
Release 16 Oct 2023
Scrapnaut Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!

Similarity 44%
Price -95% 0.69€
Rating 6.8
Release 15 Sep 2021
Beyond Contact A fiercely formidable sci-fi survival game, set on a hostile alien world that wants you dead! Alone, or with a crew, do you have what it takes to survive?

Similarity 44%
Price -84% 3.29€
Rating 6.9
Release 04 Apr 2023
Dyson Sphere Program Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Similarity 44%
Price 16.79€
Rating 9.6
Release 20 Jan 2021
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey Survive your evolution in Neogene Africa starting 10 million years ago. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a third-person open world survival game where you Explore, Expand, and Evolve to advance your clan to the next generation in the exciting new adventure from Panache Digital Games.

Similarity 44%
Price -86% 5.82€
Rating 7.7
Release 27 Aug 2020
ZED ZONE A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.

Similarity 44%
Price -65% 4.24€
Rating 7.9
Release 29 Mar 2023
Mob Factory Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.

Similarity 44%
Price -94% 0.96€
Rating 6.8
Release 09 Nov 2023
Valheim A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Similarity 44%
Price -47% 10.66€
Rating 9.4
Release 02 Feb 2021
Len's Island An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.

Similarity 44%
Price -61% 11.46€
Rating 8.3
Release 19 Jun 2025
Captain of Industry Land your crew of survivors on an abandoned island and survive! Mine raw materials, grow food, build factories, manufacture products, research new tech, and trade with others. Become an industrial superpower! But this is no easy task, you will be put to the test to keep your settlement alive.

Similarity 44%
Price 33.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 31 May 2022
TerraTech TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.

Similarity 44%
Price -92% 2.22€
Rating 8.9
Release 10 Aug 2018
TFM: The First Men An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?

Similarity 44%
Price 24.50€
Rating 6.1
Release 02 Nov 2022
Mini Settlers Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

Similarity 44%
Price -58% 5.47€
Rating 8.2
Release 06 May 2025
Lightyear Frontier In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.

Similarity 43%
Price -26% 18.67€
Rating 8.5
Release 19 Mar 2024
Junk Jack Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!

Similarity 43%
Price 14.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 30 Nov 2016
Sons Of The Forest Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.

Similarity 43%
Price 28.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 22 Feb 2024
Goblins of Elderstone This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe to face other races and even the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?

Similarity 43%
Price -85% 3.82€
Rating 7.0
Release 08 Mar 2023
Retreat To Enen Base building simulator 1500 years in the future. Journey to the Island of Enen to forage, craft, build, hunt, meditate, and explore across three vast biomes. Discover secrets and create the retreat of your dreams. With over 160 unique items to gather, craft, and build, every home will be unique.

Similarity 43%
Price -83% 4.05€
Rating 6.0
Release 01 Aug 2022