Games like Signs of Life
by Sweet Dog Studios
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
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$29.99Valheim
12 days ago · Iron Gate AB
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOnline Co-OpOpen WorldMultiplayerBuildingCraftingBase BuildingExplorationCo-op👍 465,813
$29.99RuneScape: Dragonwilds
6 days ago · Jagex Ltd
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting
On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.
Open WorldSurvivalMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftCo-opOnline Co-OpEarly AccessCraftingBuildingBase Building👍 28,410
$19.99Spirit Animal Survival
8 days ago · TRUEFX GAMES
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting
SAS is an Open World Multiplayer PVP and CO-OP Survival Game. Set in a vast environment that features Building, Crafting, Taming, Riding, Flying and Exploring Wildlife, Dinos and Dragons as well as Horrific Creatures and Instances with the ability to Morph into Spirit Animals.
SurvivalOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingNudityMultiplayerCraftingExplorationSandboxOnline Co-Op
-30%$10.49Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
7 days ago · Luden.io
Both: Sandbox · Crafting
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
-10%$4.49Gridmax
3 days ago · Dream Gears
Both: Survival · Crafting · Sandbox
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Base BuildingSurvivalManagementColony SimBuildingCraftingSandboxAutomationSimulation2D
-15%$12.74Biovoid
3 days ago · Dzedou
Both: Sandbox · Survival
Biovoid is a creature-building roguelike game where you slay hordes of hostile aliens. Combine a variety of cells and mutations to create game-breaking builds and evolve from a fragile hatchling to a deadly predator.
Action RoguelikeSimulationSandboxNatureSurvivalProcedural GenerationBuildingPerma DeathDifficultAliens
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3 days ago · Geometa
Both: Sandbox
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Both: Crafting · Sandbox
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11 days ago · VEOM Studio
Both: Space · Sandbox
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.
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4 days ago · Cuddlecados
Both: Crafting · Open World Survival Craft
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4 days ago · Monkey-With-a-Bomb
Both: Survival
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$4.99POWDR
3 days ago · SUBLIMINAL SOFTWARE
Both: Sandbox
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4 days ago · FaintVeil Games
Both: Sandbox · Crafting
A cozy multiplayer building sandbox where every world is shared and persistent. Place and break blocks, farm crops, fish, craft gear, and decorate your space alongside other players. No combat, no death penalty, just building at your own pace.
Side Scroller2D PlatformerSandboxBuildingCasualSimulationCraftingAgricultureMassively MultiplayerEconomy
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3 days ago · All Loose®
Both: Sandbox
A peaceful open world of forests, rivers and wide meadows. Set out alone or with up to 4 friends to find the place you’ll call home. Build a quiet life or grow your settlement into a thriving new civilization. The choice is yours.
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3 days ago · OutHereGaming LLC
Both: Survival · Crafting
A wilderness survival game set in an endless Alaskan night. Keep campfires alive, gather wood, craft torches, survive freezing blizzards and wolves, and search abandoned campsites for the cabin that might save you.
SurvivalSurvival HorrorOnline Co-OpOpen WorldAtmosphericHorrorFirst-PersonCo-opCraftingExploration
$5.00GLITCHED MATRIX Prototype Lab
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Both: Sandbox
Play a major role in an evolving simulation of simulations. Explore endless 2D and 3D dimensions spanning nearly every game genre, with 50+ experimental prototypes and stories whose worlds, systems, discoveries, and ideas can become part of the greater experience.
Action RoguelikeExplorationFPSCreature CollectorDungeon CrawlerColony SimSandboxUtilitiesEducationArcade
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Both: Space
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Both: Sandbox
A challenging trading and combat game with a story and quests, where goods have unique properties, and the more you carry, the more dangerous the journey becomes.
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$19.99Midwinter Fan Remaster
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Both: Survival
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StrategyOpen WorldSurvivalSingleplayerExplorationRemakeRetroSniperOld SchoolSnow
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Action RoguelikeActionExplorationPvE3DFirst-PersonFunnyProcedural GenerationSci-fiSurvival Horror
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7 days ago · Origin Studio
Both: Crafting
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3 days ago · Oldschool Tobias
Both: Space
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Both: Survival
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$3.99HOSHIKUI
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Both: Sandbox
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