Games like Starbound
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You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
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$9.99Terraria
May 16 · Re-Logic
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Survival
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Open World Survival CraftSandboxSurvival2DMultiplayerPixel GraphicsAdventureCraftingBuildingExploration👍 1,240,875
FreePlanet Explorers
Nov 8 · Pathea Games
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Open World
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Open World Survival CraftSandboxOpen WorldSurvivalMultiplayerAdventureCraftingRPGExplorationBuilding👍 5,114
$14.99Don't Starve Together
Apr 21 · Klei Entertainment
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Open World
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftMultiplayerCo-opOpen WorldAdventureCraftingOnline Co-OpSandboxDifficult👍 376,215
$11.99Dig or Die
Jul 10 · Gaddy Games
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftSandboxCrafting2DOpen WorldIndieTower DefenseStrategyAction👍 3,864
Osiris: New Dawn
Jan 18 · Fenix Fire Entertainment
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Space
Osiris: New Dawn is an unforgiving near future space survival game with a cinematic feel and elements of horror. Play as a Mission Specialist in single or multiplayer to build your planetary base, pilotable vehicles, and controllable drones as you explore a dangerous solar system far from Earth.
Open World Survival CraftHorrorSurvivalSpaceOpen WorldMultiplayerSci-fiBuildingAdventureCrafting👍 13,081
$23.99The Planet Crafter
Apr 10 · Miju Games
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Online Co-Op
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
$9.99Blockscape
Jul 3 · ioneo
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Open World
The ultimate block building game. Start with nothing and build an empire. Smooth voxel worlds, settlers, crafting, vehicles, and Steam multiplayer. Survival or Just Build — every item in your inventory is also a building block.
Open World Survival CraftSandboxOpen WorldSurvivalCraftingBuildingIndieMultiplayerSimulationCasual👍 727
$34.99ICARUS
Dec 3 · RocketWerkz
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Online Co-Op
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftMultiplayerBase BuildingOnline Co-OpCraftingOpen WorldExplorationCo-opBuilding👍 55,930
$19.99Planetaries
Aug 15 · EY-Studio
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World
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
$19.99Boundless
Sep 11 · Monumental, LLC
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Open World
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Open World Survival CraftMassively MultiplayerSandboxOpen WorldCraftingVoxelBuildingAdventureRPGSurvival👍 1,611
$19.99Eden Crafters
May 7 · Osaris Games
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Crafting · 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
$14.99Edge of Space
Sep 17 · Handyman Studios
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Crafting
Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.
Open World Survival CraftSandboxIndieAdventureCrafting2DActionSpaceSci-fiSurvival👍 1,946
$9.99Don't Starve
Apr 23 · Klei Entertainment
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting
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.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftCraftingAdventureIndieSandboxSingleplayerPerma DeathMultiplayerOpen World👍 97,019
$12.99Tinkerlands
May 23 · CodeManu, Endless Coffee
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Online Co-Op · Sandbox
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Open World Survival CraftOnline Co-OpSandboxSurvivalPixel GraphicsOpen WorldIndieMultiplayer2DAdventure👍 3,626
-35%$9.74Necesse
Oct 16 · Fair Games ApS
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Pixel Graphics · Open World
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Open World Survival CraftPixel GraphicsMultiplayerOpen WorldSandboxSurvivalCraftingAdventureIndieRPG👍 24,443
$24.99Craftopia
Sep 4 · Pocketpair
Both: Open World · Crafting · Survival
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Open WorldCraftingSurvivalMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftSandboxRPGBuildingOnline Co-OpAdventure👍 18,394
$19.99Raft
Jun 20 · Redbeet Interactive
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
SurvivalMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftCo-opCraftingOpen WorldBuildingBase BuildingOnline Co-OpAdventure👍 323,554
$19.99Stranded Deep
Aug 10 · Beam Team Games
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayerOpen WorldCraftingFirst-PersonAdventureExplorationRealisticBuilding👍 43,637
$29.99ASTRONEER
Feb 5 · System Era Softworks
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Open World · Space
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
MultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftOpen WorldSpaceSurvivalExplorationBase BuildingCo-opSandboxAdventure👍 118,872
$19.99Empyrion - Galactic Survival
Aug 5 · Eleon Game Studios
Both: Space · Open World Survival Craft · Survival
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
SimulationCo-opSpaceOpen World Survival CraftSurvivalBuildingOpen WorldExplorationSpace SimSandbox👍 29,209
$14.99Solace Crafting
Aug 1 · Big Kitty Games
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftCraftingMultiplayerOpen WorldRPGBase BuildingOnline Co-OpBuildingSandbox👍 830
-60%$23.99No Man's Sky
Aug 12 · Hello Games
Both: Open World · Space · Open World Survival Craft
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Open WorldSpaceOpen World Survival CraftExplorationSci-fiSurvivalMultiplayerProcedural GenerationAdventureSandbox👍 315,407
$14.99Out of Reach
Jul 13 · Space Boat Studios
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOpen WorldMultiplayerCraftingBuildingMassively MultiplayerAdventureSandboxAction👍 2,390
$24.99TerraTech
Aug 10 · Payload Studios
Both: Sandbox · Open World · Open World Survival Craft
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.
BuildingSandboxOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftRobotsMultiplayerCraftingActionSurvivalAdventure👍 20,575
-90%$2.49Green Hell
Sep 5 · Creepy Jar
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Online Co-Op
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftMultiplayerOnline Co-OpOpen WorldCraftingActionBase BuildingSingleplayerCo-op👍 79,478
$39.99Grounded
Sep 27 · Obsidian Entertainment
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
SurvivalMultiplayerCo-opOpen World Survival CraftBase BuildingCraftingOpen WorldAdventureOnline Co-OpHorror👍 75,780
-50%$14.99The Survivalists
Oct 9 · Team17
Both: Crafting · Survival · Online Co-Op
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?
CraftingSurvivalOnline Co-OpAdventureMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftSingleplayerBase BuildingPixel GraphicsOpen World👍 8,115
$24.99Len's Island
Jun 19 · Flow Studio
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World
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
$9.99Fragmented
Aug 15 · Above and Beyond Technologies
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayerOpen WorldActionCraftingSandboxRPGIndieBuilding👍 1,583
$29.99TerraTech Worlds
Mar 22 · Payload Studios
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Crafting
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
$4.99Block Story™
Dec 10 · Big Cube Interactive, LLC
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Crafting
There isn’t much better than a wide open game world in which you have essentially no limits and can alter the very landscape in which you play – that is, unless you add dragons, of course…
RPGAdventureOpen World Survival CraftSandboxActionCraftingOpen WorldIndieDragonsSurvival👍 1,944
$29.99Voidtrain
Nov 7 · HypeTrain Digital
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World
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
$34.99Smalland: Survive the Wilds
Feb 15 · Max Ent Games Ltd
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Online Co-Op
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.
SurvivalMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftBase BuildingOnline Co-OpOpen WorldCraftingBuildingCo-opExploration👍 8,088
$19.99Core Keeper
Aug 27 · Pugstorm
Both: Open World · Survival · Pixel Graphics
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
$14.99Crea
Jun 9 · Siege Games
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Crafting
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!
Open World Survival CraftSandboxCrafting2DRPGAdventureSurvivalMultiplayerIndieAction👍 1,085
$12.99FortressCraft Evolved!
Nov 9 · ProjectorGames
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Crafting
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.
Open World Survival CraftAutomationSandboxCraftingBuildingSurvivalIndieStrategyBase BuildingAdventure👍 2,653