Games like Mechanica
by Deimos Interactive
Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming. Create your own bases, defenses, manufacturing systems and more. Explore the map and expand the scope and complexity of your creations.
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$29.99TerraTech Worlds
Mar 22 · Payload Studios
Both: Base Building · Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox
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
Early AccessBase BuildingOpen World Survival CraftSandboxCraftingCo-opSurvivalOpen WorldBuildingMultiplayer👍 2,029
$19.99Eden Crafters
May 7 · Osaris Games
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Base Building · Sandbox
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!
AutomationOpen World Survival CraftBase BuildingCraftingSandboxOpen WorldOnline Co-OpBuildingSurvivalAdventure👍 2,515
$23.99The Planet Crafter
Apr 10 · Miju Games
Both: Base Building · Open World Survival Craft · Survival
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.
Base BuildingOpen World Survival CraftSurvivalOnline Co-OpCo-opBuildingCraftingSpaceOpen WorldExploration👍 68,913
$19.99The Front
Oct 30 · Samar Studio
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Base Building
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.
Open World Survival CraftMultiplayerSurvivalCraftingBase BuildingBuildingOpen WorldTower DefenseSandboxShooter👍 9,553
$28.99Scrap Mechanic
Jul 24 · Axolot Games
Both: Building · Sandbox · Survival
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!
BuildingSandboxMultiplayerSurvivalOpen WorldPhysicsCraftingBase BuildingCo-opAdventure👍 109,480
$9.99MewnBase
Oct 30 · Cairn4
Both: Base Building · Sandbox · Survival
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.
Base BuildingCraftingCuteExplorationSandboxSurvivalSpaceBuilding2DAction-Adventure👍 1,333
-30%$20.99Desynced
Mar 5 · Stage Games Inc.
Both: Programming · Base Building · Sandbox
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
StrategyAutomationProgrammingBase BuildingSandboxCity BuilderRTSSci-fiMultiplayerSimulation👍 1,880
-30%$10.49Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
6 days ago · Luden.io
Both: Programming · Sandbox · Robots
Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.
EducationProgrammingAutomationSandboxPuzzleCraftingRobotsBase BuildingStrategy2D👍 643
$29.99Techtonica
Nov 7 · Fire Hose Games
Both: Building · Base Building · Sandbox
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.
AutomationSimulationBuildingBase BuildingExplorationImmersive SimOnline Co-OpStrategyResource ManagementSandbox👍 3,077
$14.99Sandustry
Aug 13 · Lantto Games
Both: Sandbox · Open World Survival Craft · Building
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.
SandboxCraftingAutomationOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingExplorationSurvivalAdventureSimulation👍 4,847
$24.99Cubic Odyssey
May 14 · Atypical Games
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Base Building · Sandbox
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Open World Survival CraftRPGAction-AdventureBase BuildingCo-opSandboxSci-fiBuildingExplorationFirst-Person👍 2,407
$16.99Return from Core
Jul 17 · 顽核社 FuncoreClub
Both: Survival · Base Building · Sandbox
Mine, build, and explore with Monster Girl companions in this underground sandbox adventure. Uncover lost tech, automate production, and forge bonds with allies as you fight to survive and journey back to the surface.
AutomationSurvivalBase BuildingDating SimSandboxCraftingSingleplayerActionAdventureBuilding👍 1,621
-60%$9.99Deadside
Dec 5 · Bad Pixel
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Base Building
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
SurvivalCraftingPvPOpen World Survival CraftMultiplayerBase BuildingFPSOpen WorldPost-apocalypticSandbox👍 34,563
$29.99The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
Aug 27 · Free Range Games
Both: Base Building · Open World Survival Craft · Survival
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!
DwarvesBase BuildingOpen World Survival CraftSurvivalOnline Co-OpExplorationCraftingBuildingAdventureMultiplayer👍 10,244
$19.99Core Keeper
Aug 27 · Pugstorm
Both: Survival · Sandbox · Building
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Open WorldSurvivalExplorationPixel GraphicsMultiplayerSandboxCraftingBuildingCo-opBase Building👍 50,086
$44.997 Days to Die
Jul 25 · The Fun Pimps
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Base Building
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
SurvivalZombiesMultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBase BuildingPost-apocalypticOnline Co-OpVoxelBuilding👍 279,474
$19.99Planetaries
Aug 15 · EY-Studio
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Building
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOpen WorldOnline Co-OpMultiplayerBuildingCraftingExplorationBase BuildingCo-op👍 214
-20%$19.99ASKA
Jun 20 · Sand Sailor Studio
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
Early AccessSurvivalColony SimOpen World Survival CraftMultiplayerVikingsSandboxBase BuildingOnline Co-OpCrafting👍 10,464
$34.99Timberborn
Mar 12 · Mechanistry
Both: Sandbox · Building · Base Building
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
City BuilderColony SimVoxelSandboxAutomationBuildingNatureManagementBase BuildingSurvival👍 38,783
$19.99Odd Realm
Aug 16 · Unknown Origin Games Inc
Both: Base Building · Sandbox · Survival
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Colony SimBase BuildingSimulationManagementResource ManagementStrategySandboxSurvivalProcedural GenerationBuilding👍 955
$24.99AutoForge
Mar 27 · Siege Games
Both: Base Building · Sandbox · Building
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.
Early AccessAutomationResource ManagementBase BuildingSandboxCraftingBuildingProcedural GenerationExplorationMultiplayer👍 439
$24.99Lightyear Frontier
Mar 19 · FRAME BREAK
Both: Base Building · Open World Survival Craft
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.
Early AccessBase BuildingCraftingOpen World Survival CraftMechsFarming SimOnline Co-OpResource ManagementAgricultureExploration👍 4,258
$24.99Len's Island
Jun 19 · Flow Studio
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Building
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.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalFarmingBuildingDungeon CrawlerOpen WorldNatureCraftingSandboxExploration👍 5,936
$29.99FOUNDRY
May 2 · Channel 3 Entertainment
Both: Base Building · Building · Sandbox
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.
Base BuildingAutomationOpen WorldMultiplayerCraftingCo-opBuildingResource ManagementSandboxExploration👍 3,277
$24.99Survive the Fall
May 22 · Angry Bulls Studio
Both: Survival · Base Building · Open World Survival Craft
Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.
SingleplayerSurvivalBase BuildingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftPost-apocalypticStealthActionRPGCrafting👍 592
$14.99Outpath
Oct 16 · David Moralejo Sánchez
Both: Base Building · Sandbox
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
AutomationBase BuildingCraftingSandboxResource ManagementIncrementalExplorationSimulationOpen WorldRelaxing👍 2,899
$39.99Satisfactory
Sep 10 · Coffee Stain Studios
Both: Base Building · Building · Sandbox
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!
Base BuildingAutomationOpen WorldCraftingMultiplayerCo-opBuildingResource ManagementSandboxExploration👍 235,059
$14.99Territory: Farming and Warfare
Feb 4 · Wit Studio
Both: Base Building · Sandbox · Building
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
SingleplayerSimulationBase BuildingCity BuilderStrategySandboxAutomationPixel GraphicsResource ManagementBuilding👍 738
FreeDysterra
Apr 16 · Reality MagiQ
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Base Building
On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!
SingleplayerPvE3DSimulationRealisticOpen World Survival CraftCraftingSurvivalFPSBase Building👍 450
-55%$13.49Forever Skies
Apr 14 · Far From Home
Both: Survival · Base Building · Open World Survival Craft
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.
SingleplayerCo-opExplorationSurvivalBase BuildingOpen WorldCraftingOpen World Survival CraftAdventureAction👍 8,139
$19.99Archean
May 16 · batcholi, FloDKSM
Both: Sandbox · Building · Programming
Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.
Early AccessSandboxBuildingProgrammingImmersive SimOpen WorldCraftingScienceSpaceSpace Sim👍 240
$19.99Longvinter
Feb 21 · Uuvana Studios
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
MultiplayerSurvivalCraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftSandboxPvPCo-opBuildingAdventure👍 6,951
$29.99Voidtrain
Nov 7 · HypeTrain Digital
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Base Building
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Open World Survival CraftCo-opTrainsMultiplayerSurvivalBase BuildingOpen WorldCraftingOnline Co-OpAdventure👍 8,715
-35%$20.79The Crust
10 days ago · VEOM Studio
Both: Base Building · Sandbox · Building
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Base BuildingSpaceAutomationColony SimResource ManagementSandboxStrategyCity BuilderBuildingManagement👍 3,556
$29.99Empires of the Undergrowth
Jun 7 · Slug Disco
Both: Base Building · Sandbox · Building
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
StrategySimulationBase BuildingCity BuilderManagementGrand StrategyColony SimSandboxBuildingHistorical👍 17,498
