The 14 Best Games Like Starbound, Ranked

No Man's Sky is an action-adventure survival game. It covers a procedurally made universe with over 18 quintillion planets. Players explore star systems, gather resources, trade with alien species, and upgrade gear while following a story about the Atlas. Exploration, survival, combat, and trading drive the game. Free updates since 2016 added multiplayer, base building, fleet management, and virtual reality support.

Dig, fight, explore, build. You fight for survival, fortune, and glory in this world. Will you explore deep caverns for gear and materials? Maybe you will seek tougher foes to test your fighting skill. Perhaps you will build a city for allies you meet. Terraria lets you choose.

Mine resources, research tech, build infrastructure, automate production, and fight enemies. Design your factory with imagination. Combine simple parts into clever structures. Use management skills to keep it running. Protect it from creatures that dislike you.

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique, tactile way. Mold the environment like clay. Build your base. Master resource management. Automate production lines. Unravel the universe's mysteries, alone or with friends.

Start a new life in Portia, an enchanting town. Finish jobs, grow crops, raise animals, and make friends with quirky residents of this post-apocalyptic land to restore your Pa's workshop!

Noita is a magical action roguelite. Every pixel simulates physics. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze, and evaporate through the world. Use spells you create to move through generated areas. Explore settings from coal mines to frozen wastelands searching for unknown mysteries.

Explore an endless cavern full of creatures, relics, and resources. This is a mining sandbox adventure for 1 to 8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft, and farm to uncover the ancient Core's mystery.

Descend into an alien underwater world full of wonder and danger. Craft gear, pilot submarines, and outsmart wildlife to explore coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more. You must survive.

Enter an apocalyptic fantasy world where humanity nears extinction. Iron beats gold, and trust takes effort. This ARPG features deep character development, hundreds of unique items, and crafting quests with real choices and consequences.

Graveyard Keeper is the most inaccurate medieval cemetery management sim this year. Build and manage your graveyard. Find ways to cut costs. Expand into entertainment with witch-burning festivals. Scare villagers into church. This game is about capitalism and building a business.

You get the Kynseed, a magic acorn. It grows into a family tree where your choices show in its branches. Raise a family, farm land, run shops, and explore a world where everyone ages. If you die, you become your children and keep your legacy.

Dragon Quest Builders 2 is a block-building RPG. It features a charming campaign and multiplayer supporting four online players. Create your character, join Malroth, learn builder skills, and fight the Children of Hargon, a cult that worships destruction. Take your builder online to build great things with friends. This is a standalone experience with new characters.

The world is huge, beautiful, and dangerous. You shrink to ant size. Explore, build, and survive together in this first-person, multiplayer survival-adventure. Can you thrive against giant insect hordes and survive backyard dangers?

Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-life RPG. You inherit your grandfather’s farm plot. You start a new life with old tools and a few coins. Can you live off the land and make fields your home? It is hard. Joja Corporation changed things. The community center is ruined. The valley offers chances. Dedication might restore Stardew.