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A free-to-play single-player alien survival craft game with voxel building, exploration, and combat, offering a cozy but unfinished experience.

Star Explorers
A single-player, procedurally generated space sim about exploring alien worlds, gathering resources, and mapping star systems, with a janky retro feel and very short reviewer sessions.
2018-05-08
- Action
- Science fiction

Adventure

Indie

Simulator

Role-playing (RPG)

Open world

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Astrometica: Prologue

A short, free single-player space-survival prologue about using tools to stay alive and building a base, with a Subnautica-like loop reviewers found unfinished and thin on story.

2024-05-22

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Space Trash Scavenger

A single-player space survival sandbox where you scavenge procedural wreckage, automate your Space Rig, and craft, trade, and fight your way home, with reviewers split on whether it's cozy or tedious and averaging around 10 hours of play.

2024-11-14

Action
Adventure
Survival
Third person
Indie

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Crashlands 2

A story-rich 2D action RPG about surviving an alien world through crafting, combat, and befriending eccentric aliens, with a cozy and humorous tone.

2025-04-10

Action
Science fiction
Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Sandbox

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waxweaver

A short, non-handholdy sandbox RPG on a square planet with gravity-based exploration, resource gathering, home building, and challenging combat.

2025-04-10

Adventure
Survival
Indie
Side view
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Sandbox

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Cubic Odyssey

Craft, build, and fight across vibrant planets in this open-world co-op sandbox that reviewers found grindy and buggy.

2025-05-14

Action
First person
Adventure
Survival
Third person
Role-playing (RPG)
Open world

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The Planet Crafter

A long-form solo or co-op survival crafting game about gradually terraforming a barren alien planet into a thriving ecosystem.

2024-04-10

First person
Science fiction
Adventure
Survival
Simulator
Open world
Sandbox

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SpaceKraft!

An open-world space crafting adventure about gathering crystals, building machines, and upgrading your ship to return to Earth, with a roughly 14-hour length and a potential cable bug.

2024-05-27

Action
Adventure
Indie
Simulator

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Beyond Contact

A tense sci-fi survival crafting game on a hostile alien world with solo and co-op play; progression engages some, but late-game grind and camera controls split reviews.

2023-04-04

Action
Science fiction
Adventure
Survival
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Open world

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FortressCraft Evolved!

A voxel sandbox mixing tower defense, crafting, and logistics on an alien world, with mixed reviews and a short early-game loop of a few hours.

2015-11-09

First person
Adventure
Strategy
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Virtual Reality

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Mechanic Miner

A physics-based Martian sandbox adventure about building machines to survive, with engaging construction but rough polish and a roughly 13-hour reviewer median.

2020-02-20

Action
Adventure
Strategy
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)

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Planet Explorers

A sprawling alien-planet sandbox RPG where voxel-based terrain reshaping and crafting fuel a long but janky campaign.

2016-11-08

Action
First person
Science fiction
Adventure
Survival
Third person
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Open world
Sandbox