Survival crafting games like Outerstellar

Remember how competitive and tense Outerstellar felt at its best? You might settle into these survival crafting games easily. Plenty here let you team up if you like.

Stars End
Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox on a lawless frontier far from a dying Earth. You chop wood, knap stone tools, hunt alien wildlife, then work up to guns, vehicles, horses and your own starship. Solo or on a player-hosted server, it is worth playing for that long climb from campfire to orbit.
Competitive, Tense
63% of 1,131 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Project Asteroids
In the vastness of space, you are a lone robot desperately trying to survive. Build, explore, and fight for your life as you face deadly threats in the asteroid belt. This hardcore game shows no mercy—dangers lurk at every step, ready to destroy you at any moment.
Competitive, Tense, Fast-paced
56% of 134 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Planetaries
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.
58% of 215 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Farworld Pioneers
Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.
37% of 623 Steam reviews are positive$3.74
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.
51% of 580 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Dysterra
On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!
Competitive, Tense, Fast-paced
55% of 778 Steam reviews are positiveFree
BEACHED
BEACHED drops you into a low-poly open world where you gather resources, build a fortified base, and fight other survivors for loot. You raid monuments from an abandoned airfield to a volcano base, set traps, and hold what you take. Fast, tense, and best with friends watching your back.
Competitive, Tense, Fast-paced
64% of 3,688 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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.
Tense
80% of 12,624 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 977$19.99
CryoFall
CryoFall drops you on a forgotten sci-fi planet with stone tools and leaves space-age tech on the table. For survival crafting games fans, that means chop, mine, farm, cook, wire up power, refine oil, and grow a shack into a walled base or a whole trading city. PvE if you want calm, PvP if you want trouble.
Competitive, Tense
78% of 4,909 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 31$19.99
Out of Reach
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Competitive, Tense
54% of 2,393 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
Astro Hunters VR
Become one of the Hunters in Astro Hunters VR - PvPvE extraction shooter set in space. Explore a unique planet, fight with different enemies, craft, gather resources, and upgrade your weapons. But remember there are also other hunters on the planet. Will you ally, fight, or betray - it's up to you!
Competitive, Tense, Fast-paced
60% of 63 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
XERA: Survival
XERA: Survival is an action-first open-world survival shooter set after a combat robot uprising, where you raid for weapons and supplies, build and defend a base, and watch for both rival mercenaries and sleepless robots. Streamlined survival systems keep the focus on looting, fighting, and raiding rather than hunger bars.
Competitive, Tense, Fast-paced
65% of 7,949 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21Free

Hidden gems like Outerstellar

Signs of Life

You crash-land on an alien planet with a wrist laser, a glitchy AI companion, and nothing else.

$9.74

Astrometica

After a mining station explosion leaves you adrift in an emergency pod, you mine asteroids, craft tools, and build modular bases across space.

$11.99

Plains of Pain

A scorched procedural wasteland where the sun can kill you faster than bandits.

$19.99

Cubic Odyssey

Cubic Odyssey is a blocky open-world survival crafting game stretched across a whole galaxy.

$24.99

StarRupture

StarRupture is a first-person open-world base builder on a hostile alien planet torn by recurring cataclysms.

$19.99

Strayed

Strayed is a VR open-world survival game where you wash up with a rock and a torch and build your way up to guns, traps, and a raided-or-raiding base.

$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.

$17.99

Lost Rift

Lost Rift pairs open-world survival crafting on your own island with high-stakes extraction shooter runs.

$24.99

Stranded: 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.

$34.99

Beyond Contact

Stranded on the breaking planet Ketern, you scan alien plants, mine strange ore, research new tech, and build a powered habitat with farms and…

$19.99

Longvinter

Longvinter drops you on an island with a tent spot and big plans.

$19.99

Sunkenland

Water covered the Earth, so you start over on top of it. Sunkenland is a post-apocalyptic survival crafter about diving into drowned skyscrapers and…

$19.99

Newest survival crafting games like Outerstellar

Signs of Life

You crash-land on an alien planet with a wrist laser, a glitchy AI companion, and nothing else.

$9.74

Project: Mist

Project: Mist is an open-world survival horror on a strange island, built for survival crafters who want dread with their dinner.

$17.99

Away From Life

After a helicopter crash leaves you stranded, you hunt, gather, craft tools, and build shelter across remote islands and the waters around them.

$12.99

StarRupture

StarRupture is a first-person open-world base builder on a hostile alien planet torn by recurring cataclysms.

$19.99

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.

$19.99

Star Crafter

A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game.

$19.99

Lost Rift

Lost Rift pairs open-world survival crafting on your own island with high-stakes extraction shooter runs.

$24.99

Survive the Fall

Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike.

$24.99

Cubic Odyssey

Cubic Odyssey is a blocky open-world survival crafting game stretched across a whole galaxy.

$24.99

Longvinter

Longvinter drops you on an island with a tent spot and big plans.

$19.99

Ruins To Fortress

Explore a post-apocalyptic island, craft, build, tear down enemy bases, defend and nuke your rivals!

Free

Astrometica

After a mining station explosion leaves you adrift in an emergency pod, you mine asteroids, craft tools, and build modular bases across space.

$11.99