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Dawn of Defiance You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.

Similarity 41%
Price 19.50€
Rating 7.5
Release 15 Aug 2024
Taora : Survival Taora is an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse !

Similarity 41%
Price 13.79€
Rating 6.7
Release 23 May 2024
Mind Over Magic Mind Over Magic is a colony sim set at the site of a cursed magic school. Build and optimize your own magical academy, train powerful Mages, and master mighty relics in order to battle through the Underschool, a mysterious underground dungeon that holds the key to liberation from a deadly curse.

Similarity 41%
Price 22.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 12 Feb 2025
Craft The World Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Similarity 41%
Price -90% 1.98€
Rating 8.6
Release 24 Nov 2014
Alchemist's Awakening Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.

Similarity 41%
Price -56% 4.19€
Rating 7.0
Release 03 Jun 2019
Catizens Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

Similarity 41%
Price -97% 0.61€
Rating 7.8
Release 14 Nov 2024
The Last Plague: Blight The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world and uncover the origins of a mysterious disease. You are humanity’s final hope in ending the Blight

Similarity 41%
Price 16.49€
Rating 8.5
Release 03 Oct 2024
Plan B: Terraform Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.

Similarity 41%
Price -24% 12.26€
Rating 8.8
Release 15 Feb 2023
Interstellar Rift Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!

Similarity 41%
Price -88% 2.50€
Rating 6.7
Release 24 Sep 2020
Oxygen Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Similarity 41%
Price -90% 1.60€
Rating 7.1
Release 07 Apr 2023
Survisland / 实境求生 Survisland is a super hardcore sandbox survival game that pays great attention to restoring the real survival experience. The character has rich and realistic actions and reactions to , and the process logic of making props is no different from reality.

Similarity 41%
Price 12.49€
Rating 6.2
Release 14 Apr 2024
Subterrain Uncompromising Sci-Fi survival on Mars! Manage the entire colony single-handed! Craft, Research, Explore and Fight against evolving mutants. Vast open world and randomly generated levels to explore! Can you survive long enough to escape the horror?

Similarity 41%
Price -97% 0.54€
Rating 7.3
Release 21 Jan 2016
Alien Marauder “Alien Marauder” is a real-time strategy game with survival and confrontation theme. In this game, you will be the leader to a treacherous alien planet, build and defend base to survive against the vexan waves. Make the right decision!

Similarity 41%
Price 16.79€
Rating 6.2
Release 17 Nov 2021
River Town Factory If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……

Similarity 40%
Price -35% 9.61€
Rating 8.5
Release 06 Feb 2024
Phoning Home A tale of survival about two shipwrecked robots - ION and ANI - on their life-defining journey in this unique genre-mix of exploration, puzzle and survival.

Similarity 40%
Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 07 Feb 2017
Feel The Snow Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.

Similarity 40%
Price 12.79€
Rating 8.4
Release 12 Dec 2019
Far Cry® Primal The award-winning Far Cry franchise returns with its innovative open world gameplay, bringing together massive beasts, breathtaking environments, and unpredictable savage encounters. Welcome to the Stone Age, a time of danger and adventure.

Similarity 40%
Price 49.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 29 Feb 2016
Kingdom: New Lands Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.

Similarity 40%
Price -90% 1.63€
Rating 8.4
Release 09 Aug 2016
Winter Survival Dive into the ultimate winter survival experience and see if you can survive long enough for rescue to arrive. Experience our unique sanity system that takes survival to the next level.

Similarity 40%
Price -63% 6.92€
Rating 6.1
Release 06 Mar 2024
Smoke and Sacrifice Smoke and Sacrifice sees Sachi, a mother forced to give up her son, adventure into a grotesque underworld on a quest that will lead her to a darker truth.

Similarity 40%
Price -98% 0.43€
Rating 7.1
Release 31 May 2018
Seeds of Resilience Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.

Similarity 40%
Price -96% 0.59€
Rating 6.6
Release 13 Jun 2019
Sheltered Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Similarity 40%
Price -88% 1.56€
Rating 7.9
Release 15 Mar 2016
Stonehearth Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Similarity 40%
Price 16.79€
Rating 7.4
Release 25 Jul 2018
shapez 2 Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Construct sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle increasingly complex automation challenges at your own pace – you won’t have to worry about enemies.

Similarity 40%
Price -53% 11.28€
Rating 9.5
Release 15 Aug 2024