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2021PC, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck playable69 % positive−90 % 11.59 € 1.15 €

A top-down survival base-builder with a steampunk flavor: explore varied biomes, keep your oxygen up, run farms, generate power and grow your home base.

  • Building and crafting
  • Post-apocalyptic setting
  • Resources and survival
  • Sandbox with your own goals

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In short: Games like Scrapnaut

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

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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

92 %Match

2013PC, Steam Deck playable85 % positive19.50 €

Brings what grabs you about Scrapnaut: a post-apocalyptic setting, scarce resources and survival as well as building and crafting.

An enormously deep open-source survival roguelike in a post-apocalyptic New England where you juggle hunger, illness and zombies, build vehicles and shelters, and carve out your own goals with no fixed objective.

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Aground

Sandbox with your own goals

A 2D pixel-art sandbox survival game where you mine resources, craft gear and build up settlements while exploring islands and working through a long chain of recipes and tools.

Steel Ark

Post-apocalyptic setting

A first-person survival sandbox set in a post-apocalyptic world where you scavenge resources, build production chains and keep your mobile train base running.

Dysmantle

Open world

A colorful post-apocalyptic adventure where you can smash almost anything for crafting materials to upgrade yourself. You explore a sprawling island full of secrets, puzzle tombs and undead, with a light-hearted tone instead of punishing survival pressure.

Project Zomboid

Post-apocalyptic setting

An unforgiving zombie survival sandbox where you loot, build, craft and train skills until your inevitable death. Its deep simulation and highly customisable rules turn every run into a personal survival story, solo or with friends.

Keplerth

Sandbox with your own goals

You wake up with nothing on a hostile alien planet and must gather, craft and fight your way through a 2D sandbox survival adventure while uncovering the planet's secrets.

The Last Caretaker

Post-apocalyptic setting

A sci-fi survival-crafting game where you play the last caretaker, recovering human seeds, reactivating the Lazarus Complex and sending humanity to the stars. You explore an open world while gathering resources and building up your base.

7 Days to Die

Post-apocalyptic setting

A zombie survival sandbox built on crafting, looting, base building and skill progression, where every seventh night a massive horde tests your fortifications. Played solo or in co-op, it blends first-person shooting with tower-defense tension.

Doloc Town

Economy and management

As a young scavenger you build a vertical farm platform by platform in a harsh wasteland, reshaping the climate into a green paradise. Survival scrounging gradually turns into a relaxed farming tycoon experience.

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