Astrometica
After a mining station explosion leaves you adrift in an emergency pod, you mine asteroids, craft tools, and build modular bases across space.
81% of 2,954 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38$11.99
Survival crafting games like Adaptory
Did Adaptory leave you in a replayable and chaotic frame of mind? These survival crafting games could fill that gap nicely.
Oxygen Not Included
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony sim where three cloned duplicants wake up inside an asteroid and every breath counts. You dig tunnels, manage oxygen, food, water, heat and power, and turn a fragile hole in the rock into a working base. Deep, funny and punishing, it suits survival crafters who like systems over combat.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Chaotic, Atmospheric
96% of 136,319 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7,551$24.99Mercury Fallen
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 · Replayable, Atmospheric, Mysterious
78% of 259 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99Stranded: Alien Dawn
You crash on an alien planet with a handful of survivors and build from a rough camp to a fortified, high-tech outpost. You farm, hunt, salvage debris, research tech, and hold the walls when alien creatures attack. Good for survival crafters who want base-building with constant pressure.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Chaotic
83% of 9,921 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 563$34.99The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation
Deep and innovative space survival simulation experience. Build your station, manage your crew and explore the harsh environment of Io, the innermost moon of Jupiter. Are you brave enough to survive?
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Atmospheric
62% of 400 Steam reviews are positive$29.99Stationeers
Stationeers gives you an empty planet and a long list of ways to suffocate on it. You mine ore, smelt it, run pipes and wires, balance air, heat and power, then automate the lot. It is slow, exacting survival crafting for people who enjoy solving life support like an engineering puzzle.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Atmospheric
88% of 8,669 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 464$34.99Ragnorium
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
57% of 585 Steam reviews are positive$24.99RimWorld
Three survivors crash on a distant world with almost nothing. You keep them fed, warm and sane while you gather wood and steel, craft weapons and clothes, and turn a few shacks into a fortified colony. Every run tells a different survival story, usually with someone losing a leg along the way.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Chaotic, Atmospheric
97% of 211,533 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24,482$34.99Surviving the Abyss
Earth, 1976: run a deep-sea cloning facility on the ocean floor. You mine iron and oil, wire up oxygen, power and food, and push back the dark with light pylons while something moves at the edge of it. A tense colony builder for survival crafting games fans who want pressure instead of punching trees.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Atmospheric, Mysterious
64% of 1,052 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99Astrometica
After a mining station explosion leaves you adrift in an emergency pod, you mine asteroids, craft tools, and build modular bases across space. For survival crafters who want the familiar gather-craft-expand loop somewhere colder and stranger, with anomalies and wreckages to scan for new blueprints.
Atmospheric, Mysterious
81% of 2,954 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38$11.99Oceaneers
Oceaneers is a sci-fi survival colony sim on a flooded world of floating islands. Recruit survivors, farm, cook and craft, haul whole islands home to grow your archipelago, send rafts on expeditions, and dig into bunkers for the secrets of old-world Float-Tech. Calm, charming and full of small problems to solve.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Atmospheric, Mysterious
86% of 112 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$24.99Unclaimed World
Manage interstellar pioneers and their descendants in this detailed sci-fi colony sim. Centuries after planetfall, colonists are still struggling to gain foothold on their lush and alien planet. You settle on the frontier by carefully managing resources, production and different personalities.
Replayable
49% of 179 Steam reviews are positive$1.18Maia
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Atmospheric
39% of 829 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Cheaper than Adaptory
Unclaimed World
Manage interstellar pioneers and their descendants in this detailed sci-fi colony sim.
49% of 179 Steam reviews are positive$1.18
Farlight Explorers
Extract and gather resources from different planets. Manage the supply of electricity, water, food and oxygen of your base in order to survive.
53% of 189 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Prospector
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game.
64% of 112 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Under A New Sun
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth.
76% of 389 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$17.99
Remains
Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs.
73% of 295 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Life Not Supported
You are the lone survivor orbiting a potential new home planet, tethered to what’s left of your ship.
65% of 161 Steam reviews are positive$18.99
Minicology
You have crash-landed into a mini-verse of tiny planets. Welcome to Minicology! Embark on an interstellar survival sandbox journey.
64% of 53 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Surviving Ceres
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building.
87% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Dig or Die
You crash on a hostile planet as a tool salesman, and the only way off is to build a rocket. By day you dig, explore and craft laser guns and turrets.
90% of 3,863 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$5.39
MewnBase
MewnBase is a cute 2D survival crafting game where you land on a barren planet as a space-cat with no snacks and half your luggage missing.
92% of 1,341 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99
Ascent of Ashes
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors.
68% of 275 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Hidden gems like Adaptory
Oceaneers
Manage a band of survivors, keep your islands afloat and send expeditions across a flooded world.
86% of 112 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$24.99
MewnBase
MewnBase is a cute 2D survival crafting game where you land on a barren planet as a space-cat with no snacks and half your luggage missing.
92% of 1,341 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99
Surviving Ceres
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building.
87% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
ALL WILL FALL
A post-apocalyptic colony sim where you build a vertical city above a drowned world and keep it standing.
77% of 1,314 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 92$22.49
Havendock
Havendock is a cozy colony sim on the open ocean where you pull wood and scraps from floating debris, feed castaways, and grow a raft town toward…
81% of 1,513 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$19.99
Astrometica
After a mining station explosion leaves you adrift in an emergency pod, you mine asteroids, craft tools, and build modular bases across space.
81% of 2,954 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38$11.99
Oxygen: First Breath
You gather and stock food, water and materials, assign workers, research new buildings, and brace for winds, frosts, droughts and crack explosions.
88% of 1,665 Steam reviews are positiveFree
The Last Caretaker
You are the last working Caretaker, a machine with one job: save humanity from a drowned Earth.
86% of 14,131 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,169$34.99
StarRupture
StarRupture is a first-person open-world base builder on a hostile alien planet torn by recurring cataclysms.
80% of 12,613 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 977$19.99
Mercury Fallen
A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival.
78% of 259 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99
Under A New Sun
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth.
76% of 389 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$17.99
Don't get lost
A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim.
78% of 479 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Newest survival crafting games like Adaptory
Signs of Life
You crash-land on an alien planet with a wrist laser, a glitchy AI companion, and nothing else.
76% of 729 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$9.74
Honeycomb: The World Beyond
Honeycomb: The World Beyond is a colorful sci-fi survival crafting adventure on planet Sota7.
68% of 235 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$29.99
Frozen Ship
Frozen Ship is an open-world survival game where you manage an entire city on wheels.
77% of 174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
Oceaneers
Manage a band of survivors, keep your islands afloat and send expeditions across a flooded world.
86% of 112 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$24.99
ALL WILL FALL
A post-apocalyptic colony sim where you build a vertical city above a drowned world and keep it standing.
77% of 1,314 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 92$22.49
Occupy Mars: The Game
Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. You mine resources, print equipment, and build a base with power, water, oxygen, and food, then…
68% of 2,745 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 94$29.99
StarRupture
StarRupture is a first-person open-world base builder on a hostile alien planet torn by recurring cataclysms.
80% of 12,613 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 977$19.99
Ecopunk
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
80% of 142 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$22.99
The Last Caretaker
You are the last working Caretaker, a machine with one job: save humanity from a drowned Earth.
86% of 14,131 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,169$34.99
Star Crafter
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game.
68% of 99 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Prospector
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game.
64% of 112 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Ascent of Ashes
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors.
68% of 275 Steam reviews are positive$14.99