The Crafting Zone

Games where gathering materials and making items is central to progression.

Latest Standouts

Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.

Denizen - Players say: Build a life in Cedar Shores by working jobs, meeting locals, managing daily needs, and growing into homes and businesses. Players like: Open-Ended Routine · Varied Ways to Earn · Business Ownership ·
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Make a living for yourself in a city full of opportunity while you meet a variety of locals, explore unique locations, and work your way to the top in this open-world life simulator.

Permafrost - Permafrost is a story-driven survival sandbox set in a frozen, post-apocalyptic world. Discover a vast lore-rich open world, alone or in co-op with up to 4 players. Explore, scavenge, craft, and build a network of shelters to outlast the cold.
Piworld - Piworld is a unique multiplayer game where everyone can find something to do to suit their desires. Try out different roles: from a simple fisherman to an adventurer. Explore the world alone or with friends, fight evil, develop your skills, and create your own story.
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Oct 4, 2026
78% 👍
of 165
ShipCrafter - ShipCrafter is a naval sandbox simulation game. Build your ship, unlock new components and defeat increasingly powerful foes in the campaign !
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Sep 30, 2026
91% 👍
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King of Jade: Stone Tycoon - King of Jade: Stone Tycoon is a casual management simulation game. Inspect raw stones, polish the surface to reveal unique hidden jadeite, craft products of all sizes, and sell them to build your ultimate business empire!
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Sep 11, 2026
78% 👍
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On Sale Now

Discounted 25% or more right now, limited to well-reviewed games, steepest cuts first.

Gravity Field - Players say: Solve spatial puzzles in gravity-shifting rooms, walking on walls and reversing time for objects to open new routes. Players like: Original Gravity Puzzles · Time-Reversal Mechanics · Satisfying Solutions ·
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Gravity Field is a spatial-logic puzzle game with time inverted objects, with no top or bottom.

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Feb 22, 2023
78% 👍
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Last Room - Players say: Explore a dark labyrinth of medieval rooms, finding clues, solving logic puzzles, and navigating hazards to reach an exit. Players like: Dark atmosphere · Room-by-room puzzles · Thoughtful clue hunting ·
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Dive into a world of puzzles, medieval mysteries, and strategic challenges. Navigate, solve, and leap your way through a thrilling adventure.

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Jun 14, 2021
70% 👍
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Summer in Mara - Players say: As Koa, restore your island home, farm and craft supplies, then sail Mara’s archipelago helping residents and uncovering its story. Players like: Cute Visual Style · Relaxing Atmosphere · Story and Characters ·
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Take care of your own island and sail with your boat in this cozy farming adventure! Relax and unwind exploring a tropical archipelago or harvesting your own crops while helping others. Discover the story of Summer in Mara, with farming, crafting and exploring mechanics.

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Jun 16, 2020
75% 👍
of 2.2k
Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands - Players say: Shipwrecked on a cursed archipelago, rebuild camp, farm and cook, sail between islands, and help your crew uncover its secrets. Players like: Relaxing Island Exploration · Farming And Cooking · Colorful Visuals ·
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Farm, cook, craft and decorate in this casual open world farming adventure! Set up camp with your crew after being shipwrecked on a mysterious archipelago. Your quest is to survive, explore and uncover the secrets of the Cursed Islands. Take care of your crew to build relationships and earn rewards!

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Oct 17, 2019
74% 👍
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Beyond Contact - Players say: On Ketern, a Space Corps responder gathers resources, researches technology and builds to survive alien hazards and aid a planet in crisis. Players like: Story And Setting · Exploration And Biomes · Crafting And Progression ·
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A fiercely formidable sci-fi survival game, set on a hostile alien world that wants you dead! Alone, or with a crew, do you have what it takes to survive?

Green Hell - Players say: Stranded in the Amazon, anthropologist Jake Higgins must craft, hunt, treat injuries, and survive while searching for his wife. Players like: Layered Survival Systems · Jungle Atmosphere · Learning By Experiment ·
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Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

Dead In Vinland - Players say: Lead a stranded Viking family through turn-based island survival, balancing camp needs, exploration, relationships, and combat. Players like: Character Stories · Resource Planning · Tense Survival Challenge ·
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DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.

Feel The Snow - Players say: As a snow creature, explore a winter world, rescue your village, craft gear, build shelter, and battle dark creatures solo or in co-op. Players like: Cozy winter atmosphere · Cute pixel art · Co-op with friends ·
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Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.

Dead In Bermuda - Players say: Direct eight plane-crash survivors on a strange island, balancing daily work, camp needs, relationships, and exploration. Players like: Tense Resource Planning · Distinct Survivor Stories · Island Mystery Exploration ·
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DEAD IN BERMUDA is a survival management game with RPG and adventure elements. Lead a team of 8 survivors from a plane crash. Assign them to tasks, gain experience, develop your survival skills, research and craft new items, explore the island and solve its mysteries.

Arctico - Players say: Continue your late mentor’s Arctic research by exploring an icy island with sled dogs, gathering samples, and building an outpost. Players like: Calm Arctic Atmosphere · Dog Sled Travel · Relaxed Exploration ·
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Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.

The Escapists - Players say: As an inmate, follow prison routines, gather and craft tools, then plan a stealthy or disruptive escape from increasingly secure prisons. Players like: Creative Escape Plans · Satisfying Breakouts · Item Crafting ·
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The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!

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Feb 13, 2015
90% 👍
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Brewmaster: Beer Brewing Simulator - Players say: Build a home brewery, craft beer through hands-on brewing, then design labels for your batches and enter competitions. Players like: Detailed Brewing Process · Creative Recipe Making · Relaxed, Calm Pace ·
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Brew your perfect beer in this relaxing home brewing sim. Use a realistic chemistry simulation to brew hoppy IPAs to creamy stouts. Customise your brewing space, create recipes and label your beer, unlock new equipment and enter competitions. Learn to brew, refine your craft and become a Brewmaster!

Hidden Gems

Well-liked but under-played: strong scores, small review counts.

Mayor May Knott - A creepy-cozy 3D adventure game about solving puzzles, rebuilding a haunted ghost town, meeting weird creatures, and listening to ridiculous music!
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Apr 30, 2026
100% 👍
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A World of Keflings - Keflings may be small, but their kingdom-building adventures are gigantic! Build a world with your friends in A World of Keflings! Harvest resources, construct robots, befriend a dragon, and help a creepy witch get even creepier in this update of the classic 2010 city-building adventure.
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Jul 29, 2025
99% 👍
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Dungeon Bodega Simulator - Dungeon Bodega Simulator is a retro styled fantasy shop game where you can grow crops, brew potions, sell items and raise slimes as pets! Can you build up your bodega into a one stop adventuring shop while solving the mysteries of the dungeon beneath you?
Kitchen Sync: Aloha! - Kitchen Sync: Aloha! is a cozy, story-driven cooking RPG. As head chef of your family's restaurant in Hawaii, build a trusty team of chefs and dish up tasty Hawaiian food. Manage kitchens, build friendships, find romance, explore tropical venues, and discover the power of cooking together.
Chinese Street Food Legend - Players say: Leave an ordinary job to run a night-market kaolengmian stall, cook to order, upgrade equipment, and hear customers’ stories. Players like: Warm Character Stories · Keyboard Cooking Controls · Satisfying Automation Upgrades ·
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A heartfelt game where you run a night market stall, cooking kaolengmian (grilled cold noodles). Customers come and go, stopping by to chat and share bits of their lives, joys, frustrations, and everyday struggles. At this little stall, you cook, listen, and keep living an ordinary person’s life.

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Aug 14, 2026
98% 👍
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Mashina - A little robot digs to repair her world. Dig, build, discover and mend in a chill, stop-motion world.
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Jul 31, 2025
98% 👍
of 201
Cute Farmer Life - Cute Farmer Life is a small indie farm game. Grow, craft and collect resources in a game designed to relax and enjoy the moment. Discover the secrets of the small town you have moved to.
Vermillion - VR Painting - Players say: Paint in a virtual oil studio, mixing wet colors, following references, and creating solo or with up to three others. Players like: Realistic Oil Mixing · Beginner-Friendly Tools · Tutorial References ·
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It’s time to discover your inner artist! With Vermillion, you get a fully equipped oil painting studio in your home, without any of the mess. Ready for the unrivaled sense of accomplishment from creating your first painting?

Gaucho and the Grassland - Players say: As a gaucho, explore southern Brazilian landscapes, care for ranch animals, help local residents, and restore harmony with folklore spirits. Players like: Regional Culture · Relaxing Pace · Music and Voice ·
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LIVE like a LATIN COWBOY as you EXPLORE, HELP others, and bring HARMONY between HUMANS and MYSTICAL BEINGS in a RELAXING COZY ADVENTURE.

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Jul 16, 2025
97% 👍
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Cafe Master Story - Serve up food, drinks, and smiles in this retro cafe management sim!
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Oct 15, 2023
97% 👍
of 437
Puttler - Puttler is a mini-golf puzzle game featuring wacky obstacles and a charming backstory. Build contraptions to score the golf ball under par across 15 courses and over 250 unique holes to solve.
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Mar 28, 2025
97% 👍
of 272

Top Rated

Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.

Stardew Valley - Players say: After inheriting an overgrown farm, grow crops, explore mines, fish, and build relationships at your own pace. Players like: Relaxing, Flexible Pace · Varied Farm Activities · Comforting Town Relationships ·
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You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?

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Feb 26, 2016
98% 👍
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Schedule I - Players say: Start broke in Hyland Point, make and mix drugs, deliver orders, and grow a criminal operation with staff and automation. Players like: Growing Your Empire · Playing With Friends · Recipe Experimentation ·
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From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.

Factorio - Players say: Stranded on an alien world, mine resources, research technology, automate a sprawling factory, and defend it from hostile creatures. Players like: Factory Optimization · Satisfying Automation · Problem-Solving Depth ·
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Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Jacksmith: Weapons and Warriors - Players say: Play a donkey blacksmith who forges custom weapons for warrior clans, then supports their monster battles with a cannon. Players like: Childhood Nostalgia · Hands-On Weapon Crafting · Relaxed Casual Play ·
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Fire up the forge and craft your finest weapons in Jacksmith: Weapons and Warriors, a reforged adventure! Equip the local warriors with custom swords, bows, shields and more in your hands-on blacksmith shop. Follow the soldiers into battle as you push onward toward the evil wizard Dudley!

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May 13, 2025
98% 👍
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Terraria - Players say: Explore a randomly generated 2D world, mine and craft gear, build a home, and fight increasingly dangerous monsters and bosses. Players like: Deep Gear Progression · Replayable Adventures · Creative Building ·
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Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Subnautica - Players say: Stranded on an alien ocean, gather, craft and build your way into deeper waters while managing survival and avoiding predators. Players like: Immersive Ocean Exploration · Tense Sound And Atmosphere · Beautiful Underwater World ·
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Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Satisfactory - Players say: As a FICSIT employee on an alien world, explore for resources and build first-person factories that automate production. Players like: Factory Optimization · Rebuilding Production Lines · Conveyor-Belt Networks ·
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Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Don't Starve - Players say: As Wilson, stranded in a hostile, procedurally generated wilderness, gather resources, craft tools, and fight to survive. Players like: Distinctive Hand-Drawn Art · Discovery Through Survival · Randomized World Exploration ·
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Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Mon Bazou - Players say: In rural Quebec, rebuild and tune a rusty car while earning a living through firewood, maple syrup, farming, and street racing. Players like: Car Customization · Steady Progression · Many Side Activities ·
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Build your crappy vehicle into a race car, install the parts yourself. Make money by cutting wood, racing at night or delivering pizza. Maybe you want to manage a sugar shack or build yourself a big garage?

shapez 2 - Factory - Players say: Build a multi-level space factory that cuts, paints, stacks, and routes geometric shapes to meet changing production orders. Players like: Relaxed, No-Pressure Play · Factory Optimization · Smooth Building Controls ·
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Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.

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Apr 23, 2026
97% 👍
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Spaceflight Simulator - Players say: Design physics-driven rockets, plan staged launches, master orbital travel, and land payloads across a 2D solar-system sandbox. Players like: Rocket Design · Orbital Mechanics · Creative Sandbox ·
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In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.

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Feb 17, 2022
97% 👍
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Aviassembly - Players say: Design and fly custom aircraft, hauling mission cargo between airports while balancing payload, speed, and fuel across an open world. Players like: Creative Plane Building · Relaxing Pace · Mission Design Challenges ·
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Build and fly your own airplane! Complete missions to earn money, upgrade your plane, and discover new locations in an open world.

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Apr 11, 2025
97% 👍
of 9.5k