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Games like Deep Despair

2020PC, Steam Deck playable66 % positive2.89 €

Deep Despair is a Minecraft-style survival sandbox where you gather resources, craft, dig, build and grow crops. You decide for yourself what to do in its world.

  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Building and crafting
  • Open world
  • Resources and survival

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In short: Games like Deep Despair

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Deep Despair special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Orion Sandbox Enhanced

93 %Match

2018PC94 % positive−40 % 1.59 € 0.95 €

Brings what grabs you about Deep Despair: a sandbox with your own goals, building and crafting as well as scarce resources and survival.

You roam a vast side-view 2D world, gathering resources to craft tools, weapons and armour and build your own shelter. When night falls, swarms of dangerous monsters force you to fight for survival.

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Rising World

Open world

A sandbox survival game with a procedurally generated, fully destructible world where you gather resources and build freely, from small huts to huge cities. Playable solo or with friends online.

Raft

Building and crafting

You begin on a tiny raft in the middle of the ocean, collecting debris, expanding your floating home and exploring islands while sharks circle. Solo or in co-op, survival turns into a laid-back crafting and discovery voyage with a mysterious story.

cyubeVR

Open world

A VR voxel sandbox set in an endless procedurally generated world where you gather resources, craft and build freely. Roomscale VR controls and a dynamic day/night cycle make the building feel immersive.

Stranded Deep

Building and crafting

After a plane crash you're stranded in the Pacific, scavenging scattered islands for food, water and shelter while building rafts and fending off sharks. Its UI-light, physics-based crafting and beautiful yet dangerous ocean setting define the experience.

Survivalcraft

Sandbox with your own goals

You are marooned in an endless blocky world and must fend for yourself by mining, crafting, hunting and building shelter. Its appeal lies in the near-limitless freedom to build and the ability to construct complex electrical machines.

Planet Crafter

Open world

You terraform a hostile planet by gathering resources, building bases and machines, and watching a barren wasteland slowly gain atmosphere, water and life. The blend of calm survival and visible, large-scale progress is what makes it special.

Novus Inceptio

Sandbox with your own goals

An early-access sandbox survival game about exploring an open world, building and staying alive. Little is known about the exact gameplay, so the ratings are conservative.

Way Home

Open world

A survival sandbox where you hunt, fish, grow food and craft with a fairly realistic system to stay alive in a hostile environment. You need to plan your actions carefully.

Force of Nature

Sandbox with your own goals

An indie open-world sandbox survival game that mixes combat, crafting, building and farming. Players gather resources and build up their own livelihood.

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