The Best Crafting open-world Games for Playstation 4

Update : Alchemist: The Potion Monger added at rank #48.
Here are our 10 Best Crafting open-world Games for Playstation 4:
1

Eastshade (2019)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox One

Embark on a peaceful and wholesome adventure as a traveling painter exploring the beautiful island of Eastshade. Engage with unique and captivating characters, complete quests, and create works of art that impact the world around you. With stunning visuals and a mesmerizing score, Eastshade offers a unique and uplifting experience that will leave a lasting impression on you.


What we like:
  • Captivating characters and engaging quests
  • Stunning visuals and attention to detail
  • Art creation adds an extra layer of gameplay depth
  • Soothing and relaxing experience
  • Strong plot and exploration opportunities.
What could be improved:
  • Technical flaws including glitches and crashes
  • Mixed bag of voice acting.

  • open-world
  • relaxing
  • exploration
  • walking-simulator
  • crafting
  • beautiful
  • combat-free
  • rpg
  • first-person
  • atmospheric
  • photography
  • adventure
  • story
  • fantasy
  • violent

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Nova Lands (2023)

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Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Dive into Nova Lands, where your creativity fuels an open-world adventure of base-building and automation! Master resource management, befriend or battle exotic creatures, and design a thriving industry with adorable helper bots. Unleash your inner strategist and transform untamed wilds into a flourishing empire. Embark on your journey in Nova Lands today!


What we like:
  • Engaging base-building and automation
  • Diverse biomes with unique challenges
  • Customizable helper bot AI adds depth
  • Satisfying progression and skill tree
  • Charming pixel art and soundtrack
What could be improved:
  • Late-game content a bit slow

  • management
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • resource-management
  • automation
  • resource
  • pixel
  • survival
  • base-building
  • farming
  • simulation
  • 2d
  • boss-fight
  • boss
  • building

3

Astroneer (2019)

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Xbox One Playstation 4 PC Windows Nintendo Switch IOS iPhone

Embark on a cosmic journey in Astroneer, where you can shape worlds to your heart's content. Dig, build, and survive in a sandbox universe, creating bases and vehicles with friends. Uncover mysteries and enjoy a crafting odyssey across vibrant planets—your space adventure awaits!


What we like:
  • Engaging crafting and building mechanics
  • Vibrant, immersive worlds
  • Relaxing, open-ended gameplay
  • Satisfying cooperative multiplayer
  • Regular updates with new content
What could be improved:
  • Occasional control and camera issues

  • survival
  • crafting
  • sandbox
  • cooperative
  • open-world
  • exploration
  • space
  • drop-in
  • drop-out
  • resource
  • base-building
  • adventure

4

Cyberpunk 2077 (2020)

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stadia Playstation 5 Xbox Series X PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4

Cyberpunk 2077 is an immersive and soulful game, full of intrigue and violence unlike any other. It offers a world of depth and breadth, with freedom of choice in story and combat. With its neon-lit streets, stunning visuals, complex characters, diverse quests, upgrade tree for abilities and rich dialogue choices - this game has it all!

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What we like:
  • Absolutely gorgeous visuals
  • Freedom of choice in story and combat
  • Immersive game world to date with complex characters
  • Diverse quest types including main jobs side jobs gigs police scanner hustles etc
  • Upgrade tree for abilities
What could be improved:
  • Shorter than expected campaign length

  • open-world
  • rpg
  • stealth
  • first-person
  • shooter
  • cyberpunk
  • driving
  • narrative
  • tabletop
  • combat
  • crafting
  • fps
  • futuristic
  • heist
  • dystopian

5

Horizon Forbidden West (2022)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5 j

Horizon Forbidden West is an action-adventure game that follows Aloy as she hunts for a backup of Gaia in order to avert another disaster. Along the way, she must battle against villains and explore new areas of the planet. Players will be able to take part in engaging story telling with great in-game cinematics, immersive haptic feedback, and thrilling combat.


What we like:
  • Engaging story telling with great cinematics
  • Satisfying combat mechanics and fluid climbing mechanics
  • Variety of enemies with different weaknesses
  • Robotic dinosaurs!
What could be improved:
  • Range attacks are superior than melee attacks which can make combat challenging on higher difficulties

  • open-world
  • underwater
  • combat
  • stealth
  • dinosaurs
  • narrative
  • post-apocalyptic
  • fight
  • sci-fi
  • exploration
  • battle
  • crafting
  • skill
  • puzzle
  • robots

6

TerraTech (2018)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One Mac OS Linux

TerraTech is the perfect game for creative kids who love to build their own vehicles and explore a randomly generated world. Construct powerful machines, bases, and weapons to defend against rival miners, gather resources, and improve your standing with the Mining Corporations. Explore treacherous mountain ranges, luscious grasslands, and huge deserts while building and creating your own unique style. The gameplay is fun and intuitive, and the simplistic graphics don't require high-end hardware.


What we like:
  • Fun and intuitive gameplay
  • Creative freedom with lots of room for your own style
  • Enticing game with interesting mechanics
  • Simplistic graphics don't require high-end hardware
  • Provides a unique and addictive experience
What could be improved:
  • Feels empty with repetitive fetch quests
  • Lack of big updates
  • Multiplayer needs a lot of work

  • sandbox
  • building
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • construction
  • vehicle
  • survival
  • robots
  • physics
  • early-access
  • exploration
  • funny-looking
  • online
  • vehicles

7

DYSMANTLE (2021)

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DYSMANTLE is a post-apocalyptic open-world game where you explore a world inhabited by nasty and vile creatures. Craft permanent weapons, tools, outfits, and trinkets, farm plants, cook delicious recipes, and solve puzzles to gain upgrades. With over 99% of everything breakable for materials, the possibilities are endless. Enjoy the bittersweet apocalypse and thrive in a dangerous world.


What we like:
  • Progression system is nice
  • Unique story with nice plot twist
  • Great feedback when hitting stuff
  • Cathartic to destroy everything
  • Good value for amount of content
What could be improved:
  • Crafting system is too grindy
  • Building feels like an afterthought
  • Travel is painfully slow
  • Lack of purpose for building and sleeping

  • zombies
  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • post-apocalyptic
  • beast
  • rpg

8

Fallout 4 (2017)

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Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 4 PC Windows

Welcome to the world of Fallout 4 - a post-apocalyptic wasteland where every second is a fight for survival. As the sole survivor of Vault 111, you have the freedom to rebuild and determine the fate of the Wasteland. Explore a massive open world, join factions, develop your character with unique abilities, experience stunning graphics, engage in intense combat, and craft an entire settlement. Your choices, your adventure. Welcome home to Fallout 4!


What we like:
  • Beautiful and immersive open world
  • Intense gameplay with unique abilities
  • Eargasmic audio
  • Suitable for all audiences
What could be improved:
  • Vanilla version has some buggy moments
  • Graphics could be better
  • Story could be deeper
  • Mods needed for flawless experience

  • post-apocalyptic
  • rpg
  • open-world
  • shooter
  • crafting
  • first-person
  • combat
  • inventory
  • war
  • exploration
  • fps
  • robots
  • survival
  • adventure

9

Far Cry 6 (2021)

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Join the thrilling revolution in Far Cry 6, a tropical paradise under oppressive rule. Explore vast landscapes, engage in intense combat, and liberate Yara from its dictator. With a detailed world, diverse activities, and new features added, it's time to immerse yourself in this exciting adventure.


What we like:
  • Engaging and fun gameplay
  • Detailed and beautifully designed world
  • Variety of activities outside main storyline
  • Great attention to detail
  • Impressive graphics and performance
What could be improved:
  • Combat system could be improved
  • Bland characters

  • open-world
  • shooter
  • first-person
  • stealth
  • fps
  • cooperative
  • crafting
  • villain
  • sandbox
  • political
  • narrative
  • fight

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Dig or Die (2018)

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In Dig or Die, you are stranded on a hostile planet and must build strong defenses to survive massive attacks each night. Explore, craft, and build intricate structures in a science-fiction world with realistic physics and even a water cycle to manage. With no hunger needs to worry about, the game is all about surviving the night attacks and ultimately building a rocket ship to escape the planet. Experience fast and fun laser gun fights in a procedurally generated environment and a global real-time simulation.


What we like:
  • Interesting gameplay mechanics
  • Good difficulty balance
  • Replayability with randomly generated maps and several game modes
  • Unique gameplay ideas and concepts
  • Physics-based gameplay with liquid and structural physics
What could be improved:
  • Jetpack mechanics are dull
  • Jumping is not perfect
  • Limited monster variety and no melee combat or interesting weapons
  • Physics simulation with buildings can be weird
  • Exploration and material gathering can get tedious

  • crafting
  • survival
  • sandbox
  • terraria
  • open-world
  • physics
  • 2d
  • building
  • tower-defense
  • base-building

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