Survival crafting games like Machine Mind

Hooked on the dark and chaotic side of Machine Mind? Browse these survival crafting games for your next favorite. Most of them work well for a shared session.

The Front
The Front is a post-apocalyptic survival crafting sandbox where you are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop a tyrannical empire. Gather resources, craft weapons and tech, build a shelter from hundreds of parts, farm and cook, then defend it with traps and custom war machines.
Chaotic, Tense
66% of 9,526 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$19.99
Survival Machine
Your base is a giant rolling Machine, and zombies want it every night. By day you chop, gather and loot biomes for resources and blueprints, then craft tools, weapons and defenses to bolt onto your moving home. Simple, colorful and best with friends.
Dark, Chaotic, Tense
69% of 697 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
Outpost Zero
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 · Dark, Chaotic
51% of 580 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
The Riftbreaker
The Riftbreaker puts you in a mech-suit on an alien planet with one job: build the industry that gets you home. You raise mines, power plants and labs, craft weapons for yourself and turrets for the walls, then hold off thousands of creatures that object to the noise. Good pick for survival crafters who want base growth and defense more than hunger meters.
Tense, Mysterious
90% of 22,354 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 951$29.99
Survival Vacancy
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Also in Colony sim
60% of 70 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
The Last Haven
After the bombs, you command a handful of survivors facing nuclear winter. Chop wood, mine stone and coal, grow food in greenhouses, research tech, arm soldiers, and raid the global map — all while the temperature keeps dropping until spring.
Also in Colony sim · Dark, Tense
60% of 1,456 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$19.99
Mechanica
Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming. Create your own bases, defenses, manufacturing systems and more. Explore the map and expand the scope and complexity of your creations.
62% of 607 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Survive the Fall
Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.
Also in Colony sim · Dark, Tense, Mysterious
65% of 607 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$24.99
Scrap Mechanic
You crash-land as a robot mechanic on a farm planet where the Farmbots went haywire. In survival you gather, craft, farm, build vehicles and bases, and fight back with hammer and Spudgun, solo or with friends. Creative mode gives you 400+ parts for whatever machine you can dream up.
Chaotic
92% of 109,971 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,152$28.99
TerraTech
TerraTech is a survival crafter about machines, not hunger bars. You land as a prospector, bolt guns and wheels onto a rolling chassis, strip rival miners for parts, and refine ore into bases and better blocks. Good if you want gathering and crafting that ends in a tank you designed yourself.
Chaotic
92% of 20,680 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 241$6.24
Wasted World
The apocalypse has come, brought by pollution, wars and disease! Your mission is to save your land... or what’s left of it. Alone or with your friends gather, recycle, craft, build, plant, explore, fight & help survivors.
Also in Colony sim
59% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
StarRupture
StarRupture is a first-person open-world base builder on a hostile alien planet torn by recurring cataclysms. You mine and process resources, grow an industrial system, unlock tech, and hold your base against alien hordes, alone or with up to 4 friends.
Chaotic, Tense, Mysterious
80% of 12,624 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 875$19.99

Cheaper than Machine Mind

Outpost Zero

Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe.

$3.99

The Last Haven

After the bombs, you command a handful of survivors facing nuclear winter.

$19.99

Mechanica

Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming.

$0.99

Mechanic Miner

Put your mechanical skills to the test in a physics-based sandbox where ingenuity and creativity are the ultimate key to survival.

$7.99

LIFE EFFECT Survival

After the invasion failed to finish humanity, you pick up the leftovers.

$14.99

After the Collapse

ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors.

$14.99