Minimalist survival crafting games

Bare shapes and clear systems keep the focus on gathering, so you cut timber, tend crops, expand shelters and keep production lines moving through each night.

Sandboxels

Sandboxels

Sandboxels is a falling-sand sandbox with over 500 elements to mix, burn, cook, and grow.

94% of 1,172 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$0.99
Nightwater

Nightwater

Stranded on a lone island floating on starlit void, you start picking up sticks and stones by hand and end up running a piped-up automated factory.

83% of 167 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$14.99
Deep Despair

Deep Despair

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

66% of 234 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.99
Skillwood

Skillwood

Skillwood is a relaxing woodcutter simulator inspired by survival simulators and incremental games.

91% of 292 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3Free
Kingdom Two Crowns

Kingdom Two Crowns

A side-scrolling strategy game where you ride horseback, drop coins to recruit villagers, and raise walls, farms and towers by day to survive the…

90% of 33,131 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,053$19.99
Castle Story

Castle Story

Castle Story hands you a crew of stubby Bricktrons and a floating island full of stone to carve apart.

67% of 9,304 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 46$9.99
Factorio

Factorio

You crash on an alien world with empty hands and end up running a continent-sized factory.

97% of 197,271 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12,955$35
Predynastic Egypt

Predynastic Egypt

Predynastic Egypt is a turn-based strategy game about keeping a Nile tribe alive from 5000 to 3000 BC.

91% of 1,825 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$2.49
Project Explore

Project Explore

A 2D sandbox survival game designed for creators, players, and everyone else.

62% of 126 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Kingdom: New Lands

Kingdom: New Lands

A side-scrolling minimalist strategy game where you rule from horseback with a bag of coins.

86% of 10,228 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 65$14.99
Don't get lost

Don't get lost

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

78% of 479 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Dino Nest

Dino Nest

Dinosaur survival management game. Lead your own pack of dinos and feed to grow bigger. Can you survive or will you become extinct?

93% of 257 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Paleon

Paleon

Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!

81% of 387 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands

The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands

Build, discover, craft and survive.Build your settlement in a snowy encampment, survive monster attacks and manage resources to uncover the secrets…

75% of 197 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
World Seed

World Seed

A simple game with big ambitions. Fight creatures, explore the world and progress your character in this ever changing world.

74% of 342 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Cairn

Cairn

Cairn is a survival climb up Mount Kami, an unclimbed summit, as pro climber Aava.

94% of 19,487 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Landnama

Landnama

Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.

74% of 439 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$13.99
ArchiTac

ArchiTac

Stranded on a deserted planet, you must explore and gather resources to craft buildings so that TAC can find and repair his spaceship.

64% of 221 Steam reviews are positiveFree
helionaut

helionaut

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

94% of 204 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Bronze Age - HD Edition

Bronze Age - HD Edition

What was it like to be a chief of a tribe in 6000 year B.C.?

77% of 371 Steam reviews are positive$0.80
Space Bob vs. The Replicons

Space Bob vs. The Replicons

Help clueless Bob survive his first day of work in this procedurally generated, planet hopping, gravity simulator.

89% of 91 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Icaria

Icaria

Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed.

74% of 81 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$24.99
Farmcoz

Farmcoz

Cozy Sandbox Game about Farming and Building. Is it raining outside? Just chill and relax with warm and cheerful atmosphere of Farmcoz.

74% of 77 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Portalborn

Portalborn

A fully text-based single-player RPG inspired by classic MUDs.

90% of 77 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

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