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2014PC33 % positive

TUG is an open-world sandbox survival game where you gather resources, craft gear and explore varied biomes on an alien world. The focus is on crafting and survival in a vast landscape.

Open world
Sandbox with your own goals
Building and crafting
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The closest matches for TUG are Ark: Survival Evolved, No Man's Sky and Empyrion: Galactic Survival. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes TUG special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Ark: Survival Evolved

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2017PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified84 % positive−34 % ~~14.79 €~~ 9.76 €

Sandbox with your own goals
Open world
Building and crafting

Stranded on an island full of dinosaurs, you gather resources, build bases and tame prehistoric beasts to ride and fight alongside you. On multiplayer servers it becomes a harsh, time-hungry struggle of tribes, raids and alliances.

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No Man's Sky

Lots to discover

A near-infinite procedurally generated universe where you hop freely between vivid alien planets, gather resources, build bases and upgrade your ships. Years of free updates have turned it into a relaxed sci-fi sandbox with optional co-op.

Empyrion: Galactic Survival

Sandbox with your own goals

A space sandbox survival game where you build your own ships, stations and planetary bases while exploring planets and deep space. Gathering resources, defending your bases and playing solo or with friends are at the core.

Radiation Island

Lots to discover

A survival game set on a mysterious island in a parallel reality after the Philadelphia Experiment: you gather resources, craft gear, fend off threats and look for a way back to the real world.

Starmade

Building and crafting

A sandbox space game where you build your own ships and stations from blocks, explore the void, and fight in combat, whether solo or on multiplayer servers.

Black Skylands

Lots to discover

As an airship captain you explore a world of floating islands, fight monsters and pirates with guns, and keep upgrading your base and ship. The blend of pixel-art action, base building and airship exploration sets it apart.

Ark: Survival Ascended

Sandbox with your own goals

You are stranded on islands full of dinosaurs, taming and riding prehistoric beasts, building bases and surviving alone or with tribes of other players. The Unreal Engine 5 remake makes the huge sandbox world look far more impressive.

PixArk

Building and crafting

You gather resources, craft, tame dinosaurs and mythical beasts, and build huge bases in a voxel world. Play solo or with a tribe in a colorful, blocky take on Ark's survival formula.

Starforge

Sci-fi setting

A first-person sci-fi survival shooter where you gather resources, build voxel bases and defend yourself on an alien planet. It blends Minecraft-style building with shooter and tower defense elements.

Palworld

Open world

Palworld mashes creature collecting together with survival crafting and base building. Captured Pals fight beside you, carry you across the islands or toil away in your factory while you explore an open world armed with guns. Its cheeky, slightly macabre humor gives the whole thing a flavor of its own.