7 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Farworld Pioneers. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Farworld Pioneers.
Release Date: 25/11/2013, updated in 2019
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Stadia, Switch, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night, Pixels and Weather
Terraria looks like a 2D, lesser, version of Minecraft. However, this is a game every bit as complex and creative as the better-known block building game. To the world-crafting and survival it adds hundreds of items to collect, characters to defeat and...
Release Date: 15/03/2018
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Day and Night
Surviving Mars is a colony simulation game based on the real geography of Mars. You build and maintain a liveable habitat while balancing resources and researching new ways to adapt to the hostile environment. You receive occasional rockets from Earth...
Release Date: 20/03/2018
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night, Open World and Pixels
Starbound is an action-adventure game from the developer of Terraria about the exploration of space. It's a world viewed from side-on, with simple visuals that enable it to offer complex systems and hundreds of items for players to discover their own...
Release Date: 24/04/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Pixels
Nira is a survival game where pixelated characters explore the primitive world to find resources to survive. It's unusual not only because of its basic art style but because its simplicity gives rise to emergent and open play. Something like a cross...
Release Date: 08/11/2013
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Project Zomboid is a zombie-infested open-world strategy game. It's a survival game that's designed to be really hard. In fact, the game's tagline is "no help is coming, how will you die?" You of course do your best not to die by looting houses,...
Release Date: 14/09/2012, updated in 2014
Out Now: Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
FTL: Faster Than Light is a strategic simulation game where you combat enemy spaceships and survive the dangers of the galaxy. Unusually, you have complete control of every function of your ship and must manage systems, crew and scenarios. It's a hard...
Release Date: 13/03/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Barotrauma is a cooperative space-submarine adventure set after humanity has fled to Jupiter's moon. You work with other players to steer your submarine, work the ageing machinery, fight monsters and fix the endless leaks. It's a game that revels in not...
21 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Farworld Pioneers. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Farworld Pioneers.
Release Date: 11/04/2016, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Subnautica is an open-world adventure where you explore the ocean on an alien planet after crashlanding. You collect resources and fight creatures to survive. This enables you to establish an underwater base, gain new craft and equipment and explore...
Release Date: 23/11/2017, updated in 2019
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Amazon Fire, Android, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Coming Soon: Mac
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Blocks, Day and Night and Open World
Minecraft is a world-building adventure where you collect, craft and construct structures and items in a fantasy open world. Play involves exploring the world to find resources and good locations to build. Some of the best aspects of the game are less...
Release Date: 10/08/2016, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
No Man's Sky is a space simulation about exploring endless planets and galaxies. It invites you to take your spaceship to explore and colonise a universe rich with diverse planets, creatures and fauna. Facing so vast a space is daunting at first, but a...
Release Date: 15/12/2015, updated in 2016
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person and Open World
Elite Dangerous is a new version of the classic 1980s space game Elite. Like the original it’s a space exploration, trading and combat game that provides a huge and rich universe rather than a specific story. You can trade goods, become a bounty...
Release Date: 16/12/2016, updated in 2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Astroneer is an open-world space adventure where you colonize planets by creating habitable structures, farming and mining resources. There is no specific story, although the challenges of each planet give rise to struggles of achievement to placate the...
Release Date: 08/02/2018
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Rust (also, Rust: Console Edition) is an online survival game set in the wilderness. You explore, gather and craft materials to manage hunger, thirst, health and protection. The preparation is to ward off the threat of bears, wolves and (more commonly)...
Release Date: 30/01/2019, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Coming Soon: Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Subnautica: Below Zero is an open-world adventure game that follows the original game, Subnautica. You play a scientist on an alien planet searching for clues about the research team that vanished there. What develops is a light...
Release Date: 08/07/2014, updated in 2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Unturned is a strategy survival game where you are in a Minecraft and Roblox-style world filled with zombies. You have to carefully explore the world, gather resources and craft weapons. You might go in guns blazing, sneak around making use of...
Release Date: 08/08/2006, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Grid, Open World and Pixels
Dwarf Fortress is a longstanding strategy game set in a fantasy world where you control a group of dwarves wanting to construct a wealthy fortress. It's unusual not only for it's text-based appearance but for it's expansive scope, and intricately...
Release Date: 21/12/2022
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Weather
Sail Forth is a sailing simulation where you take charge of a ship in a vast ocean whose ancient depths have swallowed the key to the mysterious past. You play by working with the wind and sails to explore, take on tasks, fight pirates and slowly...
Release Date: 17/10/2018
Out Now: PC
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Grid, Open World and Pixels
RimWorld is a sci-fi strategy game about survival, trading, exploring and developing your colony. You start the game with three survivors of a shipwreck on a distant planet and begin to craft structures, weapons and clothes. The objective of the game is...
Release Date: 09/06/2021
Out Now: PC
Coming Soon: PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Open World and Pixels
Black Skylands is an adventure game where you pilot an airship through a sprawling open world of floating islands. You play Eva, who's ship has been destroyed and father killed. Your task is to rebuild your home from the deck up, arm and prepare for...
Release Date: 09/12/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Breakwaters is an adventure set in an ever-changing oceanic world. Unlike other games, Breakwaters isn't satisfied with day-night and weather cycles, it stands out for the fluid mechanics of its water. You swim, sail, and fly to new islands using...
Release Date: 28/11/2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Catastronauts is a team-work space survival game where you must take on tasks to keep your ship together and also fire at enemy invaders. Controlling a team of Cat Astronauts, it’s a management challenge as you repair systems, extinguish fires, arm...
Release Date: 20/01/2016, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch, Xbox One, iOS and iPhone, iPad
Coming Soon: Mac and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Open World and Pixels
Crashlands is a world-building game where you fight monsters, craft resources, and build a base on an alien planet. As you explore, either on your own or with a friend, you encounter locals, complete quests and missions, and meet strange new enemies. It...
Release Date: 11/08/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Cult Of The Lamb is a god-sim strategy game, where you are a cult leader rather than an actual god. You play a lamb and start your own cult as you venture out into the world of woodland worshippers. It combines explorative combat like Binding of Isaac...
Release Date: 26/04/2019, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC and PS4
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Days Gone is a survival adventure game set in a post-pandemic Oregon. You roam an open world pulsing with life (and zombies). It's unusual for its scale and sheer number of enemies. Add to that the changing light and weather and Days Gone creates a...
Release Date: 15/10/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Space Crew is a strategy game where you use a team of characters to control a spaceship and explore the galaxy. Unlike other space flight games, you don't directly control your craft but get your crew to look after different aspects of the mission. It's...
Release Date: 22/10/2020
Out Now: PC
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Hand-Made and Open World
Zelter is a zombie survival game. But you aren't only defending yourself from the oncoming hordes of zombies but developing a safe haven for a new life like Stardew Valley.
Release Date: 09/12/2022
Out Now: Android
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Grid and Pixels
1 Bit Survivor is an adventure survival game about driving your car across a country in the aftermath of an unstoppable virus. It stands out for its limited colours and simple-to-play hard-to-master playstyle. But really this is a game that's great...
Release Date: 25/05/2021, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Coming Soon: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Imagine Earth is a simulation strategy where you manage space colonies for a huge corporation. You gather resources, manage your finances, shape the planets and expand your cities while fending off rival companies and alien invaders. It stands out for...
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