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Games like Astroneer

Enjoyed Astroneer? Here are 6 games that play in a similar way – such as Astroneer Glitchwalkers, Hydroneer, The Planet Crafter. Each shows the cheapest key price from the stores we compare.

About Astroneer: ASTRONEER is an adventure built around base building and resource management, in which the player explores unfamiliar worlds as an Astroneer. The Terrain Tool lets them dig, gather resources, shape, build and colour the terrain as if it were clay. Bases are put together from modular pieces and extended with automation, crafting stations, power plants, resource harvesters and railways. The unknown system holds seven celestial bodies that can be explored from the surface down to the core, dotted with strange structures and artifacts and sending confusing comms from unknown sources; play solo or in 2–4 player online co-op.

Updated 12 Nov 2026, 00:00 UTC · similar games are picked by AI from our catalogue based on game content (play style, setting, co-op) · descriptions based on official publisher information on Steam

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Astroneer Glitchwalkers

ASTRONEER: Glitchwalkers is the first expansion, taking players into a new Solar System and onto the planet Aeoluz. Entry requires completing the mission ‘A Core Concept’ in the base game, followed by the mission chain starting with ‘Is This Thing On?’. On the planet, players face a rogue Astroneer who has altered the world's rules, meeting hostile terrain, defensive hazards and digital interference. The expansion adds Glitched Storms that threaten to hack players, a new tech tree and modules, and Bl!tz has reset the catalog of tools.

Hydroneer

Hydroneer is a mining and base-building sandbox. You dig for gold and other resources, reinvest the profit and build large mining machines, first with primitive tools, later with hydro-powered machinery. Voxel terrain lets you carve cave networks, quarry pits or mud mountains and hunt relics in the depths that reward you more the deeper you go. From modular parts you assemble the base and water pipe networks with pressure control, craft weapons and jewellery, grow vegetables, cook soup for villagers, fish and use the hydro machines to haul goods. The plot you pick depends on its advantages.

The Planet Crafter

The Planet Crafter is a survival open-world terraforming and crafting game for 1 to 10 players. You are sent to an inhospitable planet and must make it habitable: gather resources, craft tools and machines, build your base, and raise heat, oxygen and pressure. Over time, first life forms such as moss and insects appear, followed by thick forests and animals. You can explore old shipwrecks and ruins, play alone or in online co-op, and adjust the difficulty level.

Occupy Mars: The Game

A technical open-world survival sandbox about colonizing Mars, playable alone or in online co-op. The player explores regions of the planet, searches for valuable resources and picks a place for a city – ideally fairly level ground with access to underground water where night temperatures do not drop too far. They build and upgrade the base, secure water, oxygen, food and electricity, and repair broken parts with realistic electronic components and tools. In the garage they modify vehicles, set up mining rigs, greenhouses and tanks, and deal with things that sometimes explode or refuse to go as planned.

Minicology

Minicology is a survival sandbox in which your ship crash-lands in a mini-verse of tiny planets. You craft items from basic raw materials, build bases, defend against invaders and use automation so that factories harvest and mine resources. Combat is not limited to weapons, as you can change the weather, automate turrets, use chemistry against bosses and reshape the world around you. Dangerous predators guard valuable loot, and the procedurally generated universe offers biomes, weather and events that change with every visit to a planet.

Per Aspera

The player takes on the role of AMI, an artificial consciousness whose prime directive is to terraform Mars for human colonization. The planetary simulation blends hard science fiction with base building: the barren world is to be turned into a lush paradise while balancing a network of resources and linking structures across the whole planet through branching research trees and new technologies. The player also uncovers relics of earlier failed human colonization attempts and faces a threat from unknown forces. A narrative with difficult decisions is available alongside free-form landscape building.