Survival crafting games like Outpost Zero

Want something that feels chaotic and dark the way Outpost Zero does? These survival crafting games are a good place to start. Sharing the fun is easy with these picks.

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.
Also in Colony sim and Co-op · Chaotic
37% of 623 Steam reviews are positive$3.74
Gaia
A sci-fi base building survival game, featuring raids, agriculture, intelligent AI, natural disasters and more.
Also in Colony sim
57% of 80 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.
Also in Co-op · Chaotic
80% of 12,624 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 875$19.99
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.
Also in Co-op
58% of 215 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
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. 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 · Chaotic, Dark
83% of 9,925 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 537$34.99
Prospector
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
64% of 112 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Surviving Ceres
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Also in Colony sim
87% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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.
Also in Colony sim and Co-op · Dark
78% of 4,909 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 46$19.99
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.
Also in Co-op
90% of 22,354 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 951$29.99
Plains of Pain
A scorched procedural wasteland where the sun can kill you faster than bandits. You manage thirst, hunger and heat, craft weapons and gear, purify water, and build a base that can grow into a supplied settlement, solo or in co-op.
Also in Co-op · Dark
84% of 1,042 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$9.99
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.
Also in Co-op
63% of 1,131 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
GearStorm - Armored Survival
GearStorm - Armored Survival is a story-driven, open-world sci-fi survival adventure. Discover what led to the Phage, a deadly virus apocalypse and our escape to a alien world. Explore a vast alien planet, build your base, create your colony, acquire vehicles, weapons, and supplies to defend it.
Also in Co-op · Dark
51% of 68 Steam reviews are positive$11.99

Cheaper than Outpost Zero

Farworld Pioneers

Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op.

$3.74

Scrapnaut

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

$1.39

Mechanica

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

$0.99

Unclaimed World

Manage interstellar pioneers and their descendants in this detailed sci-fi colony sim.

$1.18

Colony 37

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

$2.99

Orion Sandbox Enhanced

A 2D side-view survival crafting sandbox on a mysterious planet that turns hostile after dark.

$1.19

Welcome to ParadiZe

ParadiZe is an isometric open-world survival game where zombies overrun a sunny, strange land and you learn to hack them into helpers.

$2.99

pyramida

A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night.

$2.99

helionaut

An open-world galaxy adventure game ✨🚀🌠 Explore a procedurally-generated universe filled with diverse micro-planets, asteroid belts and UFOs. 👽

$2.99

Another Try

The virus has devastated cities and lands, you are one of the last survivors!

$2.99

Afterinfection

Afterinfection is a brand new zombie survival game designed in Unreal 4 and being developed by a small team from Thailand.

$2.24

Grandiose

Grandiose is a calming and creative base builder game full of botany, building and strategy.

$1.99

Hidden gems like Outpost Zero

LIFE EFFECT Survival

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

$14.99

Surviving Ceres

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

$9.99

Signs of Life

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

$9.74

Aground Zero

The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion.

$19.99

Plains of Pain

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

$9.99

Machine Mind

Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS.

$19.99

StarRupture

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

$19.99

Scrap Mechanic

You crash-land as a robot mechanic on a farm planet where the Farmbots went haywire.

$28.99

Mercury Fallen

A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival.

$24.99

Don't get lost

A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim.

Free

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…

$29.99

Ascent of Ashes

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

$14.99

Newest survival crafting games like Outpost Zero