Survival crafting games like Windforge

Chasing that retro and colorful feeling you got from Windforge? These survival crafting games are worth a look next. Most of them work well for a shared session.

Everwind
Everwind is a first-person survival sandbox where your base is a flying ship. You gather, craft, cook and build walls, workshops and gardens on deck, then steer the whole thing to new islands, dungeons and bosses. Solo or with up to four friends sharing the work.
Colorful, Atmospheric, Replayable
80% of 3,595 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 134$24.99
Black Skylands
Black Skylands puts you at the wheel of an armed airship above a world of floating islands. You clear islands of Falcons and Swarm, haul back resources, and turn them into better guns and a stronger ship. For survival crafters, the pull is that loop of gathering, upgrading, and pushing further into the skies.
Retro, Fast-paced
82% of 2,882 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$4.99
Forever Skies
Fly a home-made airship above a dust-choked Earth, strip ruined towers for scrap, and build the flying workshop that keeps you alive. Solo or with up to three friends, you craft tools, grow food, and push toward a cure.
Atmospheric
77% of 8,235 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 192$29.99
Lost Skies
Lost Skies is a co-op survival adventure among floating islands, where you build a skyship piece by piece and sail it into ruins, puzzles, turrets and very large sky creatures. For survival crafters who want building with altitude: a flying home, workshop and cannon platform in one.
Fast-paced, Chaotic, Atmospheric
62% of 2,488 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29$24.99
Desert Skies
Desert Skies takes survival to the air! Build an airship and fly on an adventure through the deserts of the Wild West. Look for places to land and scavenge for loot, expand your airship and craft new equipment, but beware the dangers lurking beneath the sands!
Atmospheric
56% of 423 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
ATMOSFAR
ATMOSFAR is a survival crafting game set among floating islands, where you keep yourself fed and equipped, keep your flying machines fueled, and keep a whole flying base growing. For survival crafters who want building with a view that moves.
Chaotic, Atmospheric
68% of 652 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 308$24.99
Windbound
Shipwrecked as Kara on the Forbidden Islands, you gather food and materials, craft tools and weapons, and build your own sailing boat to hop from island to island. A bright, mysterious survival run with hunting, sailing, and ruins to uncover.
Atmospheric, Replayable
60% of 1,030 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Windscape
In Windscape you play as a young girl living on your parents’ farm, set in a lovely world made up of floating islands in the sky. As you discover the world you learn that something has gone terribly wrong - islands are breaking apart and falling from the sky!
Colorful, Atmospheric
62% of 170 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Windrose
A pirate survival crafting game where you gather, craft, build and fight across procedurally generated islands and open sea. Raise a settlement, captain a customizable ship, take on bosses and dungeons solo or with up to 8 friends.
Colorful, Replayable
86% of 48,878 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,885$29.99
Volcanoids
Volcanoids is a survival crafting game with a twist: your base is a steampunk drillship. You gather resources on a volcanic island, craft upgrades, and expand that moving fortress, then send it underground when eruptions sweep the surface. Add robots to fight, tech to loot, and co-op for up to four, and it is an easy one to lose a weekend to.
Fast-paced, Chaotic, Atmospheric
83% of 7,696 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 31$19.99
Echoes of Elysium
Ever wanted to live on an airship? Now you have to. Echoes of Elysium is a co-op survival RPG where your airship is home, workshop, and war machine. Build a custom flying fortress, crew up with up to 6 players, and battle soul-powered clockwork beasts across a gorgeous, fractured sky.
Colorful, Fast-paced, Atmospheric
61% of 517 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Forsaken Isle
Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
Retro, Colorful, Replayable
70% of 462 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$8.99

Cheaper than Windforge

Black Skylands

Black Skylands puts you at the wheel of an armed airship above a world of floating islands.

$4.99

Forsaken Isle

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

$8.99

Block Story™

Block Story is a blocky open-world sandbox with quests, bosses and dragons to ride.

$4.99

Scrapnaut

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

$1.39

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

Force of Nature

Force of Nature is a randomly generated open-world survival crafting sandbox with more than 10 zones to explore.

$7.99

Lucid Blocks

Lucid Blocks is a first-person voxel sandbox where you wander an endless procedural dreamscape, fend off manikins, gels and colossal spiders, and…

$6.99

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.

$5.39

Signs of Life

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

$9.74

Wayward

Wayward strands you with bare hands on a procedural wilderness and leaves survival up to you.

$7.99

Hydroneer

Hydroneer is a first-person mining sandbox about turning a patch of dirt into a clanking, water-powered operation.

$4.49

helionaut

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

$2.99

Hidden gems like Windforge

CleanFall

CleanFall is a survival rogue-like that prizes player freedom and creativity.

$11.99

Whisper of the Swallows

Survive blizzards and night creatures in a procedurally generated wilderness, building a sanctuary alone or with up to six players.

$19.99

Solarpunk™

Solarpunk is a cozy survival crafting game set on floating islands, where you build a home, grow food, craft gadgets and run everything on sun, wind…

$22.99

Everwind

Everwind is a first-person survival sandbox where your base is a flying ship.

$24.99

AutoForge

You wake as Otto, a small magical golem with big building plans.

$24.99

Aloft

A survival crafter set among floating islands where your home is also your ship.

$24.99

Forgotten Seas

You are lost in the Bermuda Void, where the ocean is endless and dry land precious.

$24.99

Orebound

A first-person dwarven factory game in a voxel open world: mine ore by hand, craft better tools, then build drill rigs, belts, and refineries that…

$24.99

First Dwarf

Pilot a dwarven mech and fly a dragon as you build and defend outposts across a shattered magical realm.

$24.99

Black Skylands

Black Skylands puts you at the wheel of an armed airship above a world of floating islands.

$4.99

Forsaken Isle

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

$8.99

Windrose

A pirate survival crafting game where you gather, craft, build and fight across procedurally generated islands and open sea.

$29.99

Newest survival crafting games like Windforge