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Games like Wildmender

Games like Wildmender

A desert gardening survival game where you cultivate a spring, explore an open world, and defend against wraith corruption, with fun but unfinished gameplay that reviewers clocked around 30 hours.

Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife
A relaxing garden-building sim where you restore a wasteland, attract wildlife, and design habitats, with a sometimes-frustrating auto-placement system.
2024-07-11
- Puzzle

Adventure

Strategy

Bird view / Isometric

Indie

Simulator

Sandbox

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My Time at Sandrock

A cozy desert life-sim RPG about building a workshop, gathering resources, and saving a town through a huge story campaign.

2023-11-02

Action
Adventure
Third person
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Sandbox
Kids

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Eden Crafters

A rough-around-the-edges open-world co-op survival and factory-builder where you automate terraforming to make a hostile planet habitable.

2026-05-07

First person
Science fiction
Adventure
Strategy
Third person
Indie
Simulator
Open world

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Smalland: Survive the Wilds

A tiny-scale multiplayer survival game about crafting, taming creatures, and exploring a hazardous world, with a roughly 20-30 hour campaign that some players find lacking in content.

2024-02-15

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

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Blossom: The Seed of Life

A relaxing single-player terraforming survival game about bringing a barren planet to life, with a ~20-hour campaign that reviewers say drags during the empty mid-game.

2026-03-09

Science fiction
Adventure
Survival
Third person
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Open world
Sandbox

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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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Dune: Awakening

A sprawling Dune-set open-world survival RPG with base building, crafting, sandworm threats, and co-op/PvP, but reviewers note combat feels rough and servers can be sparse while playtime runs very long.

2025-06-10

Action
Science fiction
Adventure
Third person
Role-playing (RPG)
Open world

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Starsand

An open-world desert survival game with crafting, base construction, and mystic mysteries, offering a short, mixed-experience campaign.

2022-11-17

Action
First person
Adventure
Survival
Simulator

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The Wandering Village

A relaxing single-player city-builder on a giant creature's back, mixing settlement survival with a symbiotic bond in a toxic post-apocalyptic world.

2025-07-17

Science fiction
Survival
Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator

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Atlas Fallen: Reign Of Sand

A desert action RPG with co-op, magic combat against giant monsters, and a roughly 28-hour campaign whose interesting mechanics are undercut by camera and polish issues.

2023-08-09

Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Third person
Role-playing (RPG)
Mystery

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Terra Nil

A single-player environmental strategy game about restoring a barren wasteland to a balanced ecosystem and leaving no trace, with methodical puzzle-like pacing and a roughly 15-18 hour playthrough, though bugs and finicky photo objectives can frustrate.

2023-03-28

Science fiction
Puzzle
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Sandbox
Educational

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Solarpunk™

A survival crafting game about building and decorating floating-island homesteads and exploring the sky by airship, solo or with friends.

2026-06-08

First person
Adventure
Survival
Indie
Simulator
Sandbox