Games like Prospector: The First Contract
by Loonworks Games
As the Prospector in this Prologue chapter, you will be taking on your first contract. Explore new planets, gather resources, build your fully automated base, and ship materials to distant colonies.
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$24.99TerraTech
Aug 10 · Payload Studios
Both: Building · Sandbox · Open World
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
$19.99Eden Crafters
May 7 · Osaris Games
Both: Automation · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting
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
$14.99Sandustry
Aug 13 · Lantto Games
Both: Sandbox · Crafting · Automation
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
$14.99Starbound
Jul 22 · Chucklefish
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Survival
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...
Open World Survival CraftSandboxSurvivalSpaceAdventureCraftingPixel GraphicsOnline Co-OpMultiplayerOpen World👍 120,674
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
$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
$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
$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
$12.99FortressCraft Evolved!
Nov 9 · ProjectorGames
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Automation · Sandbox
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
$19.99Core Keeper
Aug 27 · Pugstorm
Both: Open World · Survival · Exploration
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
-70%$5.99Forager
Apr 18 · HopFrog
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Pixel Graphics · Survival
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Open World Survival CraftPixel GraphicsSurvivalCraftingIndieFarming SimSandbox2DAdventureBase Building👍 35,394
$23.99The Planet Crafter
Apr 10 · Miju Games
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Building
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
$19.99Nova Lands
Jun 22 · BEHEMUTT
Both: Automation · Sandbox · Open World Survival Craft
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
AutomationBase BuildingSandboxAdventureOpen World Survival CraftPixel GraphicsResource ManagementSurvivalRobotsOpen World👍 2,512
$13.99Subsistence
Oct 25 · ColdGames
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayerCraftingOpen WorldBuildingBase BuildingSandboxCo-opSingleplayer👍 12,466
Osiris: New Dawn
Jan 18 · Fenix Fire Entertainment
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World
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
$34.99ICARUS
Dec 3 · RocketWerkz
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting
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
$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
$29.99ASTRONEER
Feb 5 · System Era Softworks
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Open World · Survival
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: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Building
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
$39.99Satisfactory
Sep 10 · Coffee Stain Studios
Both: Automation · Open World · Crafting
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
$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
$35.00Factorio
Aug 14 · Wube Software LTD.
Both: Automation · Sandbox · Crafting
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
AutomationBase BuildingResource ManagementSandboxCraftingStrategyMultiplayerSurvivalManagementOpen World👍 195,659
$10.99Miniland Adventure
Apr 10 · Imilkowski Dev
Both: Sandbox · Survival · Pixel Graphics
The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!
SandboxSurvival2DPixel GraphicsOpen World Survival CraftSingleplayerCraftingBuildingRelaxingBase Building👍 290
$14.99Outpath
Oct 16 · David Moralejo Sánchez
Both: Automation · Crafting · 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
$19.99Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival
Jul 27 · Tbjbu2
Both: Survival · Crafting · Automation
TIME TRAVEL through history to BECOME GOD 🚀 Ride dinosaurs, forge tools, sail dunes, build a colony, siege castles, automate and fly, mine underground, launch to the moon, build a dyson sphere! An insane, unforgettable and revolutionary survival crafting base building open world adventure.
SurvivalBase BuildingCraftingAdventureAutomationOpen World Survival CraftOpen WorldExplorationColony SimAction-Adventure👍 807
$19.99Starsand
Nov 17 · Tunnel Vision Studio
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOpen WorldRealistic3DFirst-PersonExplorationCraftingBase BuildingInventory Management👍 807
$16.99Return from Core
Jul 17 · 顽核社 FuncoreClub
Both: Automation · Survival · 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
$9.99Arctico
Feb 15 · Claudio Norori, Antonio Vargas
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World
Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.
Open World Survival CraftMultiplayerSurvivalOpen WorldCo-opAdventureIndieExplorationNatureAtmospheric👍 2,208
$29.99FOUNDRY
May 2 · Channel 3 Entertainment
Both: Automation · Open World · Crafting
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
$14.99Keplerth
May 23 · TARO
Both: Sandbox · Exploration · Survival
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
SandboxAdventureExplorationSurvivalOpen WorldBuildingSci-fiCasualRPGMultiplayer👍 3,698
$24.99Cubic Odyssey
May 14 · Atypical Games
Both: Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Building
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
$29.99Palworld
Jul 9 · Pocketpair
Both: Open World · Survival · Open World Survival Craft
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Open WorldSurvivalCreature CollectorMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftOnline Co-OpCraftingIndieCo-opAdventure👍 412,343
$19.99Interstellar Rift
Sep 24 · Split Polygon
Both: Building · Open World · Exploration
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!
Space SimBuildingOpen WorldExplorationCraftingSandboxPvPMiningSurvivalFirst-Person👍 1,411
$34.99Stationeers
Dec 12 · RocketWerkz
Both: Automation · Survival · Building
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Early AccessBase BuildingAutomationSurvivalPhysicsColony SimLogicBuildingSandboxCrafting👍 8,601
-55%$13.49Forever Skies
Apr 14 · Far From Home
Both: Exploration · Survival · Open World
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
-80%$3.99Outpost Zero
Jul 25 · Symmetric Games
Both: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Open World
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
AdventureActionSimulationSurvivalIndieOpen World Survival CraftMultiplayerOpen WorldBase BuildingCrafting👍 579