Computed from player tags · Not ranked by quality
24 games like Scrap Mechanic (2026)
Every game below overlaps with Scrap Mechanic on things players said about it rather than on our opinion of what feels alike. Each entry shows what it matched on, so you can throw out the ones matching on the part you did not care about.
The short version
- Closest match: Raft, which both open world and survival.
- Scrap Mechanic is tagged Building, Sandbox, Multiplayer, Survival, Open World, Physics, Crafting, Base-Building by Steam players. Those tags are what the matching runs on.
- 24 games qualify, each with at least fifty player reviews behind its sentiment figure.
How these were matched
Steam tags carry the most weight, because players apply them and they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Souls-like, Atmospheric and Cozy exist as tags and as nothing else, which is exactly the vocabulary this question needs. Formal genres count for less, themes and a shared studio for more.
Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are thrown out before matching. Nearly everything is tagged Singleplayer, so matching on it is matching on nothing. That cutoff is computed from the catalogue rather than fixed, so it moves as the catalogue grows.
All 24, closest first
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Raft
Why it matched: both open world and survival; shares 10 player tags including Survival, Crafting and Building; published by the same company.
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Raft at a glance Released 2018 Studio Redbeet Interactive Player sentiment 93% positive of 377,670 Price $19.99 SurvivalCraftingBuildingBase-BuildingOnline Co-OpSandboxFirst-PersonSimulation
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Satisfactory
Why it matched: both open world and survival; shares 9 player tags including Base-Building, Crafting and Building; released around the same time (2024).
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Satisfactory at a glance Released 2024 Studio Coffee Stain Studios Player sentiment 97% positive of 278,668 Price $39.99 Base-BuildingCraftingBuildingSandboxSurvivalFirst-PersonSimulationEarly Access
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Abiotic Factor
Why it matched: both open world and survival; shares 9 player tags including Survival, Online Co-Op and Crafting; released around the same time (2025).
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Abiotic Factor at a glance Released 2025 Studio Deep Field Games Player sentiment 96% positive of 58,569 Price $34.99 SurvivalOnline Co-OpCraftingBase-BuildingEarly AccessSandboxFirst-PersonBuilding
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Hurtworld
Why it matched: both open world and survival; shares 9 player tags including Survival, Crafting and Building.
Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.
Hurtworld at a glance Released 2019 Studio Bankroll Studios Player sentiment 76% positive of 30,966 Price $24.99 SurvivalCraftingBuildingSandboxEarly AccessFirst-PersonSimulationThird Person
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My Summer Car
Why it matched: both open world and survival; shares 8 player tags including Simulation, Survival and First-Person; released around the same time (2025).
My Summer Car is the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance AND permadeath life survival simulator. You start the game with hundreds of loose parts and assemble both car and engine.
My Summer Car at a glance Released 2025 Studio Amistech Games Player sentiment 95% positive of 117,158 Price $14.99 SimulationSurvivalFirst-PersonBuildingFunnySandboxEarly AccessIndie
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Sons Of The Forest
Why it matched: both open world and survival; shares 8 player tags including Survival, Base-Building and Crafting; released around the same time (2024).
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Sons Of The Forest at a glance Released 2024 Studio Endnight Games Ltd Player sentiment 88% positive of 318,107 Price $29.99 SurvivalBase-BuildingCraftingFirst-PersonBuildingSandboxSimulationEarly Access
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Valheim
Why it matched: both open world and survival; shares 9 player tags including Survival, Online Co-Op and Building.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Valheim at a glance Released 2021 Studio Iron Gate Studio Player sentiment 94% positive of 540,990 Price $29.99 SurvivalOnline Co-OpBuildingCraftingBase-BuildingSandboxThird PersonEarly Access
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TerraTech
Why it matched: both open world and survival; shares 9 player tags including Building, Sandbox and Crafting.
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
TerraTech at a glance Released 2018 Studio Payload Studios Player sentiment 91% positive of 24,934 Price $6.24 BuildingSandboxCraftingSurvivalEarly AccessIndiePhysicsOnline Co-Op
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Grounded
Why it matched: both open world and survival; shares 9 player tags including Survival, Base-Building and Crafting.
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Grounded at a glance Released 2020 Studio Obsidian Entertainment Player sentiment 90% positive of 95,557 Price $39.99 SurvivalBase-BuildingCraftingOnline Co-OpSandboxFirst-PersonThird PersonFunny
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ASKA
Why it matched: both open world and survival; shares 8 player tags including Early Access, Online Co-Op and Crafting; released around the same time (2024).
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
ASKA at a glance Released 2024 Studio Sand Sailor Studio Player sentiment 80% positive of 12,111 Price $24.99 Early AccessOnline Co-OpCraftingSimulationBuildingSurvivalBase-BuildingSandbox
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Rust
Why it matched: both open world and survival; shares 9 player tags including Survival, Crafting and Building.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Rust at a glance Released 2018 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 87% positive of 1,394,551 Price $39.99 SurvivalCraftingBuildingSandboxFirst-PersonOnline Co-OpIndieEarly Access
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Necesse
Why it matched: both open world and survival; shares 8 player tags including Sandbox, Indie and Survival; released around the same time (2025).
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Necesse at a glance Released 2025 Studio Fair Games ApS Player sentiment 93% positive of 28,893 Price $14.99 SandboxIndieSurvivalCraftingEarly AccessBuildingOnline Co-OpBase-Building
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Going Medieval
Why it matched: both survival; shares 9 player tags including Early Access, Moddable and Sandbox; released around the same time (2026).
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Going Medieval at a glance Released 2026 Studio Foxy Voxel Player sentiment 89% positive of 21,362 Price $22.49 Early AccessModdableSandboxSimulationSurvivalCraftingBase-BuildingIndie
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Factorio
Why it matched: both open world and survival; shares 8 player tags including Base-Building, Sandbox and Crafting.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Factorio at a glance Released 2016 Studio Wube software Player sentiment 98% positive of 233,978 Price $35.00 Base-BuildingSandboxCraftingSurvivalBuildingModdableSimulationIndie
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Enshrouded
Why it matched: both open world and survival; shares 8 player tags including Survival, Base-Building and Online Co-Op; released around the same time (2024).
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Enshrouded at a glance Released 2024 Studio Keen Games GmbH Player sentiment 86% positive of 105,009 Price $29.99 SurvivalBase-BuildingOnline Co-OpCraftingBuildingSandboxEarly AccessIndie
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Green Hell
Why it matched: both open world and survival; shares 8 player tags including Survival, Online Co-Op and Crafting.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Green Hell at a glance Released 2019 Studio Creepy Jar Player sentiment 85% positive of 101,599 Price $2.79 SurvivalOnline Co-OpCraftingBase-BuildingFirst-PersonSandboxSimulationBuilding
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Stranded Deep
Why it matched: both open world and survival; shares 8 player tags including Survival, Crafting and First-Person; released around the same time (2022).
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Stranded Deep at a glance Released 2022 Studio Beam Team Games Player sentiment 74% positive of 47,793 Price $19.99 SurvivalCraftingFirst-PersonBuildingSandboxSimulationEarly AccessIndie
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Breathedge
Why it matched: both open world and survival; shares 8 player tags including Survival, Sandbox and Indie.
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Breathedge at a glance Released 2021 Studio RedRuins Softworks Player sentiment 81% positive of 17,816 Price $2.49 SurvivalSandboxIndieBase-BuildingFirst-PersonCraftingEarly AccessSimulation
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ICARUS
Why it matched: both open world and survival; shares 8 player tags including Survival, Base-Building and Online Co-Op.
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
ICARUS at a glance Released 2021 Studio RocketWerkz Player sentiment 75% positive of 67,694 Price $8.74 SurvivalBase-BuildingOnline Co-OpCraftingBuildingFirst-PersonThird PersonSandbox
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Dwarf Fortress
Why it matched: both open world and survival; shares 7 player tags including Simulation, Base-Building and Sandbox; released around the same time (2022).
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Dwarf Fortress at a glance Released 2022 Studio Bay 12 Games Player sentiment 95% positive of 31,446 Price $29.99 SimulationBase-BuildingSandboxBuildingSurvivalCraftingModdable
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Foundation
Why it matched: both open world and survival; shares 7 player tags including Simulation, Sandbox and Building; released around the same time (2025).
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Foundation at a glance Released 2025 Studio Polymorph Games Player sentiment 87% positive of 24,163 Price $23.44 SimulationSandboxBuildingIndieBase-BuildingSurvivalEarly Access
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The Forest
Why it matched: both open world and survival; shares 8 player tags including Survival, Crafting and Building.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
The Forest at a glance Released 2018 Studio Endnight Games Player sentiment 96% positive of 680,814 Price $19.99 SurvivalCraftingBuildingFirst-PersonSandboxSimulationIndieEarly Access
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Manor Lords
Why it matched: both open world and survival; shares 7 player tags including Simulation, Base-Building and Building; released around the same time (2024).
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Manor Lords at a glance Released 2024 Studio Slavic Magic Player sentiment 84% positive of 90,905 Price $25.99 SimulationBase-BuildingBuildingSandboxSurvivalModdableEarly Access
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Astroneer
Why it matched: both open world and survival; shares 8 player tags including Survival, Base-Building and Sandbox.
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Astroneer at a glance Released 2016 Studio System Era Softworks Player sentiment 92% positive of 139,052 Price $29.99 SurvivalBase-BuildingSandboxBuildingCraftingThird PersonSimulationIndie
Common questions
What game is most like Scrap Mechanic?
Raft, on the evidence we have. It both open world and survival. That is a statement about overlap, not a promise you will like it as much: two games can share every tag and still feel different to play.
How is "similar to Scrap Mechanic" decided?
By overlap on the tags Steam players applied to each game, the formal genres, the themes both sit in, and whether the same studio made them. Tags carry the most weight because players write them, so they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are ignored: matching on "Singleplayer" is matching on nothing. Every entry below shows exactly what it matched on.
Are these ranked by quality?
No. They are ordered by how much they overlap with Scrap Mechanic. Where two games overlap equally, the better received one goes first, but that only moves a game a place or two. Each entry shows its own player sentiment so you can weigh that separately.
Do you get paid for these recommendations?
No. The order is computed from tag and genre overlap and nothing else. No placement here can be bought, and a game appearing high on this page is a statement about resemblance rather than an endorsement.