Survival crafting games like Project Explore

If Project Explore left you wanting something replayable and retro, you have options. These survival crafting games offer a similar pull for your backlog. Many of them are fun to share with friends.

Rising World
Rising World is a voxel open-world sandbox where you start with basic tools, gather wood, stone and ore, and work up toward a castle, a town or whatever else you can shape. Survival stays low-pressure, crafting is hands-on, and building tools are deep enough for serious projects, solo or with friends.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Relaxing
85% of 5,347 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 102$14.99
Journey Of Life
You have experienced the sudden loss of your wealth, which has compelled you to abandon your previous life and begin anew. By venturing into the game world, you can construct settlements and forge alliances with other players, ensuring that you will always have exciting challenges to undertake.
Also in Co-op
55% of 598 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
The Infected
The Infected is a first-person open-world survival crafting sandbox where you chop, mine, hunt, farm, cook, and build your base up from nothing through changing seasons. Turn the hybrid Vambies on for hostile nights or off for quiet building, and tune the difficulty to suit you.
Replayable
84% of 6,621 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 110$15.99
KeepUp Survival
KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.
Also in Co-op · Replayable
62% of 685 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$14.99
Tinkertown
Gather your friends and come to Tinkertown - A refreshing new Multiplayer Sandbox Experience! Explore magical places filled with loot, danger, and creativity.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Retro, Relaxing
65% of 987 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$16.99
Re.poly
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Retro, Relaxing
91% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Solace Crafting
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Relaxing
72% of 834 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Forsaken Isle
Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
Replayable, Retro
70% of 462 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$8.99
Delverium
Delverium is a pixel-art survival crafting game where you gather, craft, farm, and fight across a procedurally generated world. Build a shelter, recruit trading NPCs, cook your harvest, then head underground for ore, treasure, and glitch-like Faults. Playable solo or in co-op for up to 8 players.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Retro, Relaxing
87% of 201 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 44$9.99
The Gold River Project
A camping trip in the Pacific Northwest turns into a survival experiment where you are watched and studied. You manage hunger, thirst, fatigue and temperature through shifting seasons, build up a campsite, craft tools and farm plots, and work toward bringing down a strange wall in the forest, alone or with up to four friends.
Also in Co-op
62% of 670 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 51$24.99
Signs of Life
You crash-land on an alien planet with a wrist laser, a glitchy AI companion, and nothing else. Signs of Life is a 2D sci-fi survival sandbox where you mine blocks, hunt strange creatures, and craft your way from scrap tools to armor, guns, and cybernetics, across hand-made ruins and procedurally generated wilds.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Retro, Relaxing
76% of 743 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$9.74
Creativerse
Creativerse is a bright voxel sandbox where you mine, hunt, cook, farm and craft your way from bare hands to powerful tools. Its private worlds stretch for days, full of biomes, caverns and creatures that fight back. Relaxed and generous with building options, it suits survival crafters who like to tinker and reshape land.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Relaxing
77% of 2,651 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 35$24.99

Cheaper than Project Explore

Orion Sandbox Enhanced

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

$1.19

INCUR Survival

A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base…

$3.99

Scrapnaut

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

$1.39

Total Miner

Total Miner is an open world voxel sandbox game. It is primarily designed for creative RPG game builders, but also has two action/adventure style…

$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

Lodventure

Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone.

$3.74

Deep Despair 2

Deep Despair 2 is an open world survival adventure action game with procedural generation and complete freedom of action: building, crafting…

$2.99

Mechanica

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

$0.99

pyramida

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

$2.99

Deep Despair

Deep Despair is a Minecraft-style survival sandbox. Travel, collect resources, craft items, dig, build, grow crops and survive.

$2.99

Colony 37

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

$2.99

Hidden gems like Project Explore

Delverium

Delverium is a pixel-art survival crafting game where you gather, craft, farm, and fight across a procedurally generated world.

$9.99

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.

$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

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

Plains of Pain

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

$19.99

Forsaken Isle

Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!

$8.99

INCUR Survival

A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base…

$3.99

Above Snakes

Above Snakes is a relaxing isometric survival crafter where you lay down the Wild West itself, tile by tile.

$24.99

Re.poly

Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure.

$19.99

Orion Sandbox Enhanced

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

$1.19

Solace Crafting

Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types…

$14.99

The Gold River Project

A camping trip in the Pacific Northwest turns into a survival experiment where you are watched and studied.

$24.99

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