
Aground
Mine, craft and build across a colorful island world with a story that keeps unfolding, alone or with friends.
Remember how replayable and dark Aground Zero felt at its best? These games offer a similar pull for your backlog. Sharing the fun is easy with these picks.
Shipwrecked with a few other survivors, you mine, craft and build your way from wooden huts to starships. Aground is a crafting RPG with a real story underneath, and it keeps surprising you: new islands, magic, dragons, and eventually the stars themselves.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Replayable, Mysterious
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Replayable, Dark
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.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Dark
A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark, Mysterious
A short, friendly mining adventure in a colorful pixel-art underworld. Dig for minerals, sell them, upgrade your drill machine and push deeper, following clues to the legendary minerals hidden in the Veil.
Mysterious
A top-down sci-fi survival crafter with a story that keeps giving you reasons to dig. Play Maeve, an ex-corporate mining engineer carving out a life of her own: mine hundreds of resources underground, build a modular Outpost on the surface, grow crops, raise fish, and unravel a corporate mystery. No enemies, just you, a drone, and a very deep hole.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Mysterious
Build a formidable factory and go dungeoning alone or with friends. Solve logic puzzles and automate resource collection and crafting, or venture into dungeons filled with dangers and rewards. Find your own ideal gameplay balance, as any unique path will advance the story!
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Replayable
Mine, build and claw your way back to the surface after civilization fell. Befriend Monster Girls who fight beside you and keep your base running, automate production with lost technology, and uncover what ended the world above. A cute, colorful underground sandbox with a story and a super drill.
Also in Survival crafting · Mysterious
CryoFall is a 2D sci-fi survival colony sim on a forgotten planet. You start with primitive tools and work your way up through industrial, modern and space-age technology: farms, power grids, factories, vehicles, even war machines. Play it relaxed on PvE servers or brutal on PvP ones, alone or with friends. Just know it asks for patience.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark
Dig deep down the abandoned planet to find its secrets and earn cash by collecting resources. Spend your money on buying various trinkets and instruments that will help you along the way to earn even more profit.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark, Mysterious
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Mysterious
Crash-land on a hostile planet as a CRAFT & Co tool salesman, dig fast, craft laser guns and turrets, and build a fortress that can actually hold, because every night the monsters you have killed come for your base. Real physics means walls collapse, water floods, and only smart building gets you to the rocket that ends it all.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Replayable

Mine, craft and build across a colorful island world with a story that keeps unfolding, alone or with friends.

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements.

Build a formidable factory and go dungeoning alone or with friends.

A colorful underground survival sandbox where Monster Girl companions, automated bases and a buried mystery pull you toward the surface.

Dig deep down the abandoned planet to find its secrets and earn cash by collecting resources.

While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth.

Penkura is a sci-fi base-building survival game where you construct a colony from a top-down command system, explore an alien world in first person…

Land on an uncharted planet as a space cat, then scavenge, craft and build a base to survive on it.

Pilot your drill deep below the surface of a remote planet, to mine ore to refine into resources, which will be used in drill upgrades and…

Scavenge, craft and fight through a dying underground colony while an infection spreads and every resource counts.

Dig for resources, craft laser weapons and turrets, and engineer a base that survives the monsters it made angry.

Mine asteroids, scan lost wreckage and build your own bases in a calm, open galaxy that lets you explore at your own pace.

Mine for answers, grow a home on the surface, and let a corporate mystery pull you further down.

Dig deep down the abandoned planet to find its secrets and earn cash by collecting resources.

Drill through a procedurally generated underground in a giant mech, hunting minerals, secrets and a missing father.

Mine minerals in a subterranean world, upgrade your drill machine and chase the secret of the legendary minerals.

Last Breath is a solo or online co-op survival game about bringing a dead planet back to life.

Set up conveyor networks, dock your stations and research new tech at your own pace, alone or with friends.

Land on an uncharted planet as a space cat, then scavenge, craft and build a base to survive on it.

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building.

Pilot your drill deep below the surface of a remote planet, to mine ore to refine into resources, which will be used in drill upgrades and…

Mine asteroids, scan lost wreckage and build your own bases in a calm, open galaxy that lets you explore at your own pace.

Turn a flooded city's rooftops into a cozy home, farm strange crops, tinker with robots and take each day at your own pace.

A colorful underground survival sandbox where Monster Girl companions, automated bases and a buried mystery pull you toward the surface.

Last Breath is a solo or online co-op survival game about bringing a dead planet back to life.

Set up conveyor networks, dock your stations and research new tech at your own pace, alone or with friends.

Scavenge a monster-haunted island, build a moving base on rails, and uncover its secrets alone or with friends.

Mine for answers, grow a home on the surface, and let a corporate mystery pull you further down.

Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed.

StarRupture is a first-person open-world survival and base-building game on a planet torn by recurring cataclysms.

Salvage, build and sail a flooded Earth while raising the last of humankind in your machine-run complex.

Crafting, cloning, and comedy await in this survival-infused metroidvania adventure.

Dig deep down the abandoned planet to find its secrets and earn cash by collecting resources.

Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game.

Survive an overgrown park at ant size: craft gear, ride your own buggy and build bases while a mystery watches back.

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors.