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2021PCNintendo SwitchSteam 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
Sandbox with your own goals
Economy and management

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The closest matches for Scrapnaut are Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, Dysmantle and Steel Ark. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Scrapnaut special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Best alternative overall: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead 91% match – Post-apocalyptic setting
To play together: 7 Days to Die 87% match – with co-op
Newest alternative: Steel Ark 90% match – released 2026

Best match

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

91 %Match

2013PCSteam Deck playable85 % positive19.50 €

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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Dysmantle

Lots to discover

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.

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.

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.

Planet Crafter

Building and crafting

You terraform a hostile planet by gathering resources, building bases and machines, and watching a barren wasteland slowly gain atmosphere, water and life. The blend of calm survival and visible, large-scale progress is what makes it special.

I am Future

Lots to discover

A relaxed survival game where you build a cozy camp on a rooftop in a flooded city, farming, cooking and putting robots to work for you. Along the way you uncover the mystery of the catastrophe.

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.

My Time at Portia

Building and crafting

As the new workshop owner in the colorful town of Portia, you build, craft, take on commissions, grow crops and befriend the locals. A relaxed crafting and life-sim adventure set in a friendly post-apocalyptic world.

Kenshi

Post-apocalyptic setting

Kenshi is a brutal sandbox RPG set in a vast, harsh wasteland where you decide whether to become a trader, mercenary, slave or warlord. Instead of a scripted story, you build your squad, base and reputation in a world that gives you nothing for free.

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.

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