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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!
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Dive into 'Wizard with a Gun', an enchanting survival adventure where you craft bullets, battle beasts, and bend time! Team up with friends or brave it alone in a world where your magical firepower is your lifeline. Customize your wizard and tower, uncover secrets, and master the art of gunomancy in this bewitching, chaotic realm.
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Space Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. Players build space ships, space stations, planetary outposts of various sizes and uses, pilot ships and travel through space to explore planets and gather resources to survive.
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Core Keeper is a mining/crafting-adventure game that combines elements from games like Terraria, Stardew Valley, and Valheim. Dive into a subterranean world where you mine, build, and battle in an ever-expanding cave of wonders. Forge your path, unearth relics, and conquer monstrous foes, solo or with friends. It's a sandbox of secrets waiting for you to uncover!
What we like:
Infinite exploration with diverse biomes
Complete creative freedom in a fully destructible environment
Terraria is an addictive, systems-heavy, 2D sandbox-survival game that offers exploration, crafting, and combat, where you must defeat enemies and gather resources to build increasingly powerful weapons, armor and housing for NPCs. With pixelated visuals, great controls, and sound, Terraria provides hours of entertainment and is a must-have for Minecraft fans looking for something different in this genre.
What we like:
Addictive gameplay
Pixelated 2D sprites that are beautifully designed
Complex systems-heavy gameplay
The game has a purpose to serve with the housing of NPCs
Great and responsive controls
What could be improved:
The game has too many shortcuts and menus, which may overwhelm new players
Not a lot of screen space on small touch-screen devices
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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
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No Man's Sky is a massive universe-sim sandbox experience that lets you explore an infinite number of planets with unique lifeforms and environments. Upgrade your ship and suit for survival and choose your own path - whether you want to be a trader, fighter, or explorer. The game offers great graphics and good VR support with the ability to play with friends and share your discoveries.
Aground is a Mining/Crafting RPG with a goal, story, and reason to craft and build. The gameplay is simple, but engaging with tons of features. In Aground, you can raise dragons and launch into space, fight enemies, discover magic, and explore secrets. If you're into crafting games with a lot of exploration, Aground is a thoroughly addictive game with plenty to discover.
What we like:
Story is interesting and allows for a lot of exploration
Crafting is solid and varied
Mod support and community are helpful
Gameplay is engaging and controls are good
Freedom to choose which islands to visit and play at your own pace.
What could be improved:
Item storage can be tedious and requiring a lot of trips
Low-resolution graphics may take some getting used to
Lack of personal relationships with NPCs
Basic tutorial and sometimes requires use of outside resources for guidance.
RimWorld is a life simulator and management game set in a remote planet in the distant future. It features a unique character generation system to create complex personalities with flaws, drives and needs, as well as a story generator that creates unexpected scenarios for players to face.
What we like:
Unique character generation system
Story generator creates unpredictable scenarios
Tons of mods for everything
Includes interaction bubbles to show interactions as they happen
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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