Games Like Starbound on Steam

Factorio mixes the elements of Action, Real-time Strategy, and Survival developed and published by Wube Software. The game supports both Single and Multiplayer modes and offers an exciting story revolves around a spaceman who landed on an alien planet due to crash. As the survival, your primary objective is to harvest resources by hand to build up different structures, and a rocket to escape back to home. The inhabitants of the planet are trying to defend their environment from the destruction and pollution by you. The game is about creating a colony, searching resources, and surviving as long as possible to progress in the match. In the beginning, you starts off from an empty land, and your initial task is to build a colony by collecting resources and expand it further and further to progress through the game. There are three vehicles available that you can use during gameplay such as train, car, and tank. Three types of enemies present to take you a tough time while you are completing your objectives such as splitters, worms, and bitters. Explore the world from a top-down perspective, accomplish randomly generated levels and build your spaceship to escape to home. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

StarMade is another marvel and a super cool addition to the Sandbox genre. This brilliant Action-Adventure, RPG, Indie video game takes you to an amazing space themed game world and allows you to explore the whole universe, create or craft ships, weapons, shields to defy the enemy attacks, go planet to planet, collect resources, engage in epic battles with enemy and survive and save your crew members. Ship customization, encounters with space pirates and ability to build the whole space stations etc. are the coolest parts of this wonderful game. With amazing quests, a huge world to explore, lot of collectibles, Economy driven game-play, great visuals and a lot of other exciting things, StarMade is a great alternative to Starbound.

Planet Explorers is an Open World Action-Adventure, Indie, RPG video game that takes place on a distant planet. This voxel based Sandbox video game allows you to use the unique crafting system of the game and build and destroy whatever you want, explore the procedurally generated game world, collect items, and fight off the enemies with your specially designed and sophisticated weapons. You can use different vehicles to travel to places and create new objects wherever you want in an open world environment. Planet Explorers provides you with five main game modes Story Mode, Adventure Mode, Build Mode, Co-OP and Versus and allows you to play and enjoy this cool game to the limits. Other great features include! Over 70 different enemy types, 20 plus NPCs, Ability to dig, build, plat, etc. a lot of upgrades etc.

Rising World is a Voxel based Sandbox, Action-Adventure, Indie and RPG video game that takes you to an amazing world of procedurally generated and fully destructible environments. Co-op mode of the game allows you to play this cool game with your friends and have an amazingly addictive game-play experience. Your duty in the game is to explore, gather resources, craft basic tools to dig and store the resources fight off the enemies, survive and build massive cities or huge castles etc. You can get help from your friends and build the whole game world together if you want. With random game worlds, modifiable gaming environments, over 200 different materials to build, great environmental physics and so cool upgrades this game is quite fun to play and enjoy.

Craft the World is a marvelous Sandbox Construction, Management, and MMO and RTS Simulation by Black maple games. The Simulation actually lets you be an in charge of a whole big Dwarf Society that with time changes into a fully developed community. Your task is to explore the world around you, collect resources, battles against the monsters, craft different items like “weapons, vehicles, buildings” etc. and discover new technologies to equalize your worth and strengthen your defenses, Defeat your enemies in order to capture their lands and to loot their resources etc. With a number of complex game levels filled with pure awesomeness and fun, amazing amounts of resources, and sandbox aesthetics, wonderful visuals, immersive gameplay and a lot of other cool things, Craft the World is one of the best game to play. Do try it out.

Trove is a Sandbox MMORPG video game developed by Trion Worlds. With a Minecraft and Cube World inspired game-play and visuals, Trove is one of the best game of this specific genre. The game lets you select player character from a number of classes, select skills and go to the Arena called Hub to access the Portals and reach to other worlds to fight against the opponents, go to amazing quests, interact with NPCs and other online players, defeat the bosses and enjoy being part of a wonderful world. Trove allows you to select any character from any available character classes, use their special abilities to explore the world, to craft buildings, weapons and loads of other cool items and go against a number of different types of enemies to enjoy the game. Trove lets you explore a massive game world, filed with all kinds of wonders, different types of enemies etc. and it lets you have some of the most coolest Power Ups and upgrades to enhance your abilities and keep on playing the game until you get tired. Trove offers a brilliant Sandbox gameplay similar to the biggest names of the genre such as Minecraft, Cube World and others and offers a truly amazing MMORPG experience ever. Do give it a try, you’ll definitely love this game.

Terraria 2 is an Action-Adventure, Survival, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Re-Logic and published by 505 Games. The game combines the elements of Side-scroll, Sandbox, crafting, exploration, and combat. You assume the role of the protagonist, and your primary goal is to manipulate the 2D randomly generated the world. You can start the game with three primary tools such as a sword for combat, a pickaxe for mining and an axe for woodcutting. Explore the world, collect resources, craft useful items and fulfill challenging tasks to progress through the game. It becomes difficult, as you advanced. There are a variety of items available, and you can find them only in certain areas of the map, stored in rare and common containers. Craft new items, and use different items to take down enemies. Slimes, Demon eyes, Zombies, Region-specific Enemies, etc. are prominent foes in the game. Score the highest points and use them to unlock further content in the game. With brilliant mechanics, addictive gameplay and superb visuals, Terraria 2 is an excellent game to play and enjoy.

Colony Survival is a Sandbox, Base-building, Open World and Multiplayer video game created by Pipliz. It takes place in the dynamic 3D world full of monsters and colonists who are finding their way in the land. It offers the similar gameplay to Minecraft and lets the player explore the land, use a variety of blocks to build shelters, houses, bridges and more. The player starts the game with a small colony consists of a couple of berry farmers, a copper miner and the slingers. The ultimate task of the player is to expand his colony and unlock expansive metals like iron, steel and bronze. As the game advances, the player can include or hire flax and wheat farmers, bakers, tailors, and more to his colony. The main gameplay focuses on RTS (Real-time Strategy) element and offers the brilliant gameplay. Colony Survival offers prominent features such as Detailed Graphics, Advanced Tools, Block-based World, Base-building Gameplay, and more. Check it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Paint the Town Red mixes the First-person Shooter, Sandbox, Action and Voxel-based elements developed and published by South East Games for multiple platforms. The game offers a chaotic first-person melee combat gameplay takes place in various locations and time periods. In the game, you can punch, stab and slice the voxel-based enemies to advance through the plot. During the gameplay, you have to use your wits, speed, skills and anything you can get in the epic battles, old west saloon rumbles, disco brawls, and more. It has both Online and Co-op Multiplayer modes, enabling you to compete against your friends and beat ‘em up enough to become the master. Using a level editor, you can create unique levels and can share with your friends as the challenge. You can explore the sandbox environment from a first-person perspective, use weapons and items to beat characters and experience the fighting gameplay. Paint the Town Red includes core features such as Arena Mode, Destructible Enemies, Level Editor, Sandbox Level, Boss Enemies, Unique Rewards, and more.

Block’hood is the mix of City Building, Sandbox, Strategy, and Isometric Simulation elements developed by Plethora-Project LLC and published by Devolver Digital for multiple platforms. The game comes with Single-player mode and offers the Sandbox environment where the setting of the game takes place. There are more than 200 building blocks available, and the player must use combine and arrange them to create the beautiful neighbourhood and find out the impactions of the design. The game embarks the player on a storyline of ecology and understanding as the further resources are required to unlock new configurations, blocks, and combinations to create the fantastic colony. Throughout the design procedure, the player will need to avoid the decay of his beautiful city blocks by creating each unit. It has multiple unique modes such as Sandbox, Story Mode, and Challenge mode. Block’hood includes core features such as Envision your Neighborhood, Generate Resources, Avoid Decay, Unique Modes, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

FortressCraft Evolved: Frozen Factory Expansion is an Expansion Pack for the original title FortressCraft Evolved, developed by ProjectorGames for multiple platforms. The expansion pack comes with improved graphics, enhanced mechanics, and smooth controls, as well as bone-freezing environment. The game lets the player to go deeper into the caverns to find out new materials to proceed his technology in the first DLC pack of the game. Within the unforgiving landscapes, the player needs to find new crystals and ores to design his modern weapons, suit upgrades, and his energy machines. In the game, energy is the key to survival and the victory. There are both Single-player and Multiplayer modes available and the player controls the character to fulfill the requirement of each mission. It is the perfect mix of Tower Defense, Voxel Landscapes, Logistics, Assembly Lines, Crafting and Exploration elements. The game starts with the crash landing of the player on the mysterious alien planet, left him with only a small handful machine. With addictive gameplay, brilliant graphics, superb mechanics, FortressCraft Evolved: Frozen Factory Expansion is the brilliant game to play.

FortressCraft Evolved combines the Building, Sandbox, Survival, and Crafting elements developed by ProjectorGames and published by Digital Tribe. The game offers both Single-player and Multiplayer modes, and takes place in the unique voxel-based landscapes and incorporates exploration, combat, crafting and tower-defence components. The game starts with the player crash landing on the strange world of aliens, left with the handful machines. Using the device known as hand-held scanner, the player must locate valuable resources and conveyors to automate the raw material. The player must struggle to explore the world from a first-person perspective, keep an eye on his factory while battling against hordes of aliens with several tiers of energy turrets and missiles. To survive longer, the player must continue to create powerful systems, from jet tribunes to solar energy, and more. During the gameplay, the player can experience the huge worlds and can create a futuristic mining operation comprising of tons of massive machines. FortressCraft Evolved includes prominent features such as Superb build tools, Huge World to Explore, High-tech Machinery, Futuristic Mining, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

CHKN is an Adventure, Sandbox, Survival, Single-player and Multiplayer video game created and published by Katapult for Multiple Platforms. The game offers the open world environment where the player can move freely from a first-person perspective in order to complete several missions to advance. It takes the player in the fantasy world where the life itself is the player strongest tool, and the player is capable of creating different creatures in the open era like never before. The game deals with survival, exploration, and crafting elements. During the gameplay, the player can unleash his creativity to make something unique to impress other. The game is set in the block-based world like Minecraft, and the player can use a set of different blocks to bring the living and breathtaking creatures to life. The player can work with his creatures in order to survive on the mysterious land and build anything that he can imagine. CHKN includes prominent features such as Arena, Multiplayer Mode, Create Life, Creative, and more.

Planet Centauri is a 2D Adventure, Survival, and Single-player video game takes place in the Sandbox environment, developed and published by Permadeath for Multiple Platforms. The game comes with challenging gameplay, and it sets out the player on an epic adventure to Planet Centauri, where the player will discover new biomes, hidden dungeons, find and capture the monsters to tame. The main objective of the player is to create and defend the non-player character community, craft his weapons and attempt to create magic spells to dominate the world. The game challenges the player to rescue the rare species from the evil nightwalkers if he has enough guts. So the player must develop and raise the planet to the heavens as the cradle of the new civilization. During the gameplay, the new companions of the player will support him and will evolve to become dominant. In the game, each captured creature tries to keep the unique features, growing as it gains experience fighting by the player side. Planet Centauri includes prominent features such as Crafting System, Agriculture, Characteristics and Runes, and more.

A Valley Without Wind 2 is a marvelous piece of art, as compared to a lot of other titles of this specific genre. The game offers beautiful Action-Adventure, Strategy, RPG, Exploration, Crafting, Building and Platform aesthetics just like Starbound and lets you enjoy being part of a world where you can do almost everything you want. A Valley Without Wind 2 lets you be a Mage who in search of some important info, infiltrates the inner most circle of Demonaica. Your task is to be the Mage, acquire the info, unlock the thrilling power of Immortality and finally defeat the Demonaica to save the world around you and the populace. With 2 brilliant main modes, varying difficulty levels, turn-based strategic game-play, wonderful quests, missions, brutal enemies and lot of other great things, A Valley Without Wind 2 is a super cool game to play and enjoy.

Pixel Piracy is an Action-Adventure video game with Real-time Strategy, Sandbox, and Rough-like elements created by Quadro Delta and published by Re-logic. The game casts the player in the role pf the pirate captain and doesn’t have any specific jobs for the player, and the player is free to adventure in his own style. The player reaches an Island where he can build his ship using a variety of blocks and hire his crew, after customizing the setting. The player must struggle to collect supplies to feed his crew and deal with weapons and equipment requirements. The game features permadeath, so when the player dies by starvation, or by a wild animal, or event another pirate the player’s captain doesn’t restore. It offers a massive map where the game takes place, and the player must select his destination on the map. Each location filled with danger, and population. In actual, the computer controls the sailing, but the ship will stop for a fight when some another pirate attack. With superb gameplay, addictive graphics, and wonderful visuals, Pixel Piracy is the best game to play and enjoy.

3079 is a futuristic Open-World Action-Adventure, RPG and Sandbox Style video game by PhrOOt’s Software. The game offers an action packed First person perspective and allows you to explore a ridiculously huge game world, craft different items like weapons, buildings, farms, etc. go on epic Quests and fight against the equally advanced enemies. 3079 features extremely challenging puzzles, Multiplayer gaming mode, First person Shooting elements, procedurally generated world and randomly generated quests, challenging AIs, superbly immersive game-play, great visuals and a lot more wonderful things to discover.