Retro survival crafting sandboxes

If you like starting with empty pockets, these throwback worlds let you gather supplies, shape tools and raise shelter before nightfall.

Delverium

Delverium

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

86% of 196 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27$9.99
Mayday: The Survival Island

Mayday: The Survival Island

Wash up alone, build a cozy homestead, and hop island to island by raft while a quiet mystery unfolds around you.

87% of 112 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 248$11.19
Necesse

Necesse

Necesse is a top-down open-world survival crafting sandbox in an infinite procedural world.

92% of 24,732 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 545$14.99
Allumeria

Allumeria

A voxel sandbox where you start in the forest and work outward through whole biomes of new resources, dungeons and bosses.

93% of 681 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$11.99
Romestead

Romestead

Rome has fallen and the dead walk at night. In Romestead you gather, haul, craft and build your way from a rough camp to a working Roman settlement…

77% of 4,959 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 357$13.99
Tinkerlands

Tinkerlands

Stranded on bright, dangerous islands, you chop wood, mine ore, craft tools and weapons, build a settlement and sail to new shores.

85% of 3,663 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 90$12.99
Lucid Blocks

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…

93% of 4,911 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 40$6.99
Piworld

Piworld

Gather, farm and craft your way across a bright open world, then defend your home in fights where other players are the biggest threat.

78% of 218 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12Free
Core Keeper

Core Keeper

Awaken in a vast underground cavern and dig your way outward from the ancient Core.

92% of 51,154 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6,593$19.99
Magi Scapes

Magi Scapes

Magi Scapes is a cozy pixel-art sandbox where you gather, farm, cook and craft alongside AI companions you design yourself.

69% of 132 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$12.59
Dinotica

Dinotica

Raise a tameable dino family, run a jungle farm and settlement, then take three companions into fast roguelite dungeon runs, solo or in co-op.

86% of 745 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$8.99
Atomcraft

Atomcraft

Atomcraft is a 2D sandbox where every pixel can be picked up, placed, and reacted.

95% of 442 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$11.99
Forsaken Isle

Forsaken Isle

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

70% of 462 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$8.99
The wild darkness

The wild darkness

You wake up somewhere strange with nothing, then learn to stay alive there.

80% of 163 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33Free
Odd Realm

Odd Realm

Pick a race, claim a strange procedurally generated land, and build a kingdom from dirt and stone.

84% of 959 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$19.99
Primal Planet

Primal Planet

Unveil a heartfelt story of family, dinosaurs, and UFOs! Craft, upgrade, and survive in a realm of primeval predators, savage tribes and... ancient…

88% of 667 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
ZED ZONE

ZED ZONE

You crash into the Zed Zone and survival starts from scrap. Gather materials, craft over 200 items, raise a lit, fenced stronghold, then tune your…

81% of 3,760 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,206$7.19
Mirklurk: Every Step Matters

Mirklurk: Every Step Matters

You've been exiled to The Mirk - an unforgiving swampland where every step could be your last.

96% of 179 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$14.99
Scavland

Scavland

Scavland is a hardcore top-down survival RPG in a grey Soviet wasteland covered by the Mist.

83% of 1,079 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 113$19.99
Cataclysm: The Last Generation

Cataclysm: The Last Generation

A turn-based post-apocalyptic survival sim set in modern-day New England, where you scavenge, craft, and adapt against zombies, mutants, aliens, and…

88% of 301 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$6.99
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
The Survivalists

The Survivalists

Washed up on a procedurally generated island chain, you chop, mine, cook and build your way from a flimsy axe to raided temples.

76% of 8,132 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$24.99
Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Fortress

Build a fortress into a generated mountain and try to keep your dwarves fed, watered, and alive.

94% of 29,421 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 702$29.99
Apocalypter

Apocalypter

Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic driving survival game where your car is your base, workshop and pantry.

89% of 724 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 160$14.99

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