Games like CardLife: Creative Survival
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Hand draw any weapon, tool, building piece and your own character in this innovative science-fantasy creative survival game. Mine for resources, construct unique buildings and battle fantastical beasts with friends or play alone. Explore a world made entirely out of cardboard!
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$29.99Pax Dei
Oct 16 · Mainframe Industries
Both: Sandbox · Open World · Base Building
Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?
MMORPGSandboxOpen WorldMedievalCraftingBase BuildingRPGExplorationPvPPvE👍 7,166
$29.99Soulmask
Apr 9 · CampFire Studio
Both: Base Building · Open World · PvE
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
SurvivalBase BuildingOpen WorldCraftingPvEPvPHuntingSandboxAdventureSingleplayer👍 18,451
$19.99Eden Crafters
May 7 · Osaris Games
Both: Base Building · Sandbox · Open World
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
$28.99Scrap Mechanic
Jul 24 · Axolot Games
Both: Sandbox · Open World · Base Building
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
$29.99RuneScape: Dragonwilds
6 days ago · Jagex Ltd
Both: Open World · Base Building
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
$24.99Flotsam
Dec 4 · Pajama Llama Games
Both: Base Building · Sandbox · Open World
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Base BuildingColony SimCity BuilderSandboxResource ManagementAutomationSurvivalOpen WorldFarming SimReal-Time with Pause👍 4,309
$19.99The Front
Oct 30 · Samar Studio
Both: Base Building · Open World · Sandbox
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
-50%$9.99Salt 2: Shores of Gold
Nov 12 · Lavaboots Studios
Both: Open World · Sandbox · PvE
Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.
Open WorldSurvivalSailingPiratesCraftingExplorationSandboxPvEAction-AdventureNaval👍 2,182
-35%$9.74Necesse
Oct 16 · Fair Games ApS
Both: Open World · Sandbox
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
$14.99Territory: Farming and Warfare
Feb 4 · Wit Studio
Both: Base Building · Sandbox
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
$19.99HumanitZ
Feb 6 · Yodubzz Studios
Both: Open World · Base Building · Sandbox
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
SurvivalZombiesOpen WorldMultiplayerBase BuildingCraftingSandboxIsometricPost-apocalypticShooter👍 11,166
$29.99Going Medieval
Mar 17 · Foxy Voxel
Both: Base Building · Sandbox
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Colony SimBase BuildingStrategyVoxelSurvivalManagementCity BuilderSingleplayerSandboxNature👍 17,036
$29.99Voidtrain
Nov 7 · HypeTrain Digital
Both: Base Building · 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
$29.99Valheim
12 days ago · Iron Gate AB
Both: Open World · Base Building
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
$19.99Project Castaway
Mar 17 · Mardonpol Inc.
Both: Sandbox · Open World · Base Building
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Open World Survival CraftCo-opOnline Co-OpExplorationSurvivalSandboxFirst-PersonOpen WorldMultiplayerBase Building👍 1,820
$19.99Castle Craft
Apr 19 · Twin Earth
Both: Base Building · Sandbox
Will your castle survive the relentless onslaught, or collapse under pressure? Build, manage resources, and outsmart your foes in a world where everything can be destroyed. Use strategy and creativity to turn the chaos into your greatest advantage!
VoxelSurvivalThird PersonMagicActionCity BuilderHack and SlashMedievalBase BuildingSandbox👍 480
$24.99Anymaker
3 days ago · Geometa
Both: Sandbox · Open World
Embark on your creative journey of vehicle design, as you create and operate vehicles to survive this dangerous open world. Anymaker is a detailed and technical vehicle builder and survival game. Design your chassis, build your engine, connect components, and travel into the unknown.
Early AccessSandboxSimulationOpen WorldMultiplayerBuildingFirst-PersonRealisticCo-opDriving👍 115
$19.99The Last Starship
Feb 3 · Introversion Software
Both: Sandbox · Base Building
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
StrategySandboxSpaceSimulationSingleplayerBase BuildingSci-fiSpace SimBuildingMining👍 1,625
$11.99Collision Course
May 29 · Crynosaurs
Both: Dinosaurs · Open World
An asteroid is hurtling toward the planet! Sneak, scavenge and blast your way through an immersive prehistoric world filled with Humans, Dinosaurs, Droids and Mother Nature’s fury!
AdventureActionIndieDinosaursSurvivalEarly AccessOpen WorldFirst-PersonMultiplayerFPS👍 302
$14.99Sandustry
Aug 13 · Lantto Games
Both: Sandbox · Open World
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
$34.99Timberborn
Mar 12 · Mechanistry
Both: Sandbox · 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
FreeReign of Guilds
Nov 26 · Atlant Games ltd
Both: Open World · PvP
Reign of Guilds — the spiritual successor to the old-school fantasy where steel, magic, and skill decide your fate. Inspired by the legacy of Ultima Online and EverQuest.
RPGOpen WorldMedievalMultiplayerPvPFantasyCraftingExplorationAdventureMMORPG👍 533
-33%$40.19Jurassic World Evolution 3
Oct 21 · Frontier Developments
Both: Dinosaurs · Sandbox
Build your own Jurassic World. Nurture generations of dinosaurs with the series debut of juveniles, create and manage sprawling prehistoric parks around the globe, and let your imagination roar with powerful new creative options.
SimulationDinosaursStrategySandboxCity BuilderSequelManagementActionResource ManagementEconomy👍 11,412
$34.99Pioneers of Pagonia
Dec 11 · Envision Entertainment
Both: Base Building · PvE
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
StrategyResource ManagementColony SimOnline Co-OpFantasyBase BuildingCity BuilderManagementProcedural GenerationPvE👍 4,794
$9.99The Quinfall
Feb 6 · Vawraek Technology Inc.
Both: Open World · PvP
Embark on an adventurous journey to explore the Quinfall universe. Be a part of unique battles and an immersive story with dozens of different professions in the depths of medieval times in an all-new MMORPG experience.
Massively MultiplayerMMORPGOpen WorldRPGCharacter CustomizationMultiplayerMedievalAdventureAction RPGPvP👍 12,074
$29.99Palworld
Jul 9 · Pocketpair
Both: Open World
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
$24.99Forgotten Seas
Oct 11 · Pangea Game Studios
Both: PvE · Base Building
You are lost in the Bermuda Void, where the ocean is endless and dry land precious. Craft your Ship-in-a-Bottle, then experience survival on the high seas. Sail for new land, build camps, hunt for treasures, trade for goods - then defend your ship from dreaded pirates stalking this strange realm!
ActionCo-opPiratesCombatSurvivalSimulationPvEOnline Co-OpBuildingBase Building👍 475
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$24.99Bootstrap Island
Mar 12 · Maru VR
Both: Open World
A highly realistic VR survival roguelike adventure set on a ruthless 17th-century tropical island. Shipwrecked and alone, you must survive without guidance as you face wild beasts, nature’s fury, and a mysterious local tribe. Every decision is yours. Your survival is in your own hands!
SurvivalAdventureOpen WorldVRLife SimRoguelikeActionNatureAtmosphericSimulation👍 1,366
$19.99Astro Colony
Jun 2 · Terad Games
Both: Base Building
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Base BuildingAutomationSpaceResource ManagementColony SimSimulationMultiplayerStrategyBuildingIndie👍 2,397
$19.99Ostranauts
Aug 3 · Blue Bottle Games
Both: Sandbox
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
FlightSimulationSpace SimSandboxDifficultSurvivalSpaceExplorationLife SimProcedural Generation👍 3,141
FreeZuOnline
3 days ago · ZuOnline Inc.
Both: PvE · PvP
Return to the legendary world of Zu Online - a martial arts MMORPG reborn. Explore ancient skies, master cultivation, and battle for immortality in a world inspired by Chinese mythology.
3D PlatformerCreature CollectorPvERPGPvPParty-Based RPGAction3D FighterAction RPGMMORPG
$4.99Mall: Tidy Up Together
Aug 21 · Games Together
Both: PvP · Sandbox
Shelve the products, unlock new skills, and use your unique methods to tidy up the mall. Enjoy the online co-op and online PvP with your friends, or go solo! Fill up the shelves and experience a sense of relief and satisfaction.
CasualSimulationCollectathonOrganizingOnline Co-OpPuzzleRelaxingPvPSandboxRealistic👍 258
-10%$4.49Gridmax
3 days ago · Dream Gears
Both: Base Building · 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
$9.994 Classes, Many Paths
Jan 31 · J. C. SpringBourne
Both: Dinosaurs
Enter an Awesome Open World, Single-Player RPG focused on Crafting and Creativity. A world full of Ancient Secrets; With dragons, demons, and deep dungeons waiting for you. Inspired by classic RPGs like Skyrim, Oblivion, and Morrowind.
RPGDemonsDragonsDinosaursCraftingOpen World Survival CraftMagicCharacter CustomizationCasualZombies
$17.99Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator
Jun 11 · Biotech Gameworks
Both: Sandbox
Kebab Chefs! is a Co-Op, cooking and restaurant management game that can be played up to 4 players. Design your own restaurant. Cook delicious foods, fill your menu with various recipes, feed customers and become the biggest kebab restaurant in town!
CookingMultiplayerSimulationManagementPhysicsSandboxFunnyTime ManagementImmersive SimBuilding👍 7,017
