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  1. Terraria icon
     192 likes

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. The world is your canvas and the ground itself is your paint.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Kindle Fire
    • Steam
    • GOG.com
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    Underground exploration, mining gold.
    Boss-Monster Eater of Worlds
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  2. Outer Wilds icon
     4 likes

    An action-adventure video game that follows the player character as they explore a planetary system stuck in a 22-minute time loop that resets after the sun goes supernova and destroys the system.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
    • Nintendo Switch
    • Xbox
    • Playstation
    • Epic Games Store
    Timber Hearth Village
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    Dark Bramble
    +4
    Inside Ship
    4 alternatives
  3. Qanga icon
     1 like

    Seamless open-world space sandbox with exploration of planets, moons, and stations. Engage in contracts, combat, and base building across the cosmos.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
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    +14
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    18 alternatives
  4. Subnautica icon
     11 likes

    Subnautica is an open world underwater adventure game where you're thrust into an alien world submersed underwater. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - All while trying to survive.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • OSVR
    • HTC Vive
    • Oculus Rift
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    7 alternatives
  5. OpenClonk icon
     14 likes

    OpenClonk is a free multiplayer action game where you control clonks, small but witty and nimble humanoid beings. The game is mainly about mining, settling and fast-paced melees. OpenClonk is not just a game but also a versatile 2D game engine that allows the creation of...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. Sky: Children of Light is an enchanting 3D open-world adventure and exploration game. In Sky, you arrive as the Children of the Light, spreading hope through the desolate kingdom to return fallen Stars to their constellations.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Nintendo Switch
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    +7
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    10 alternatives
  7. TUNIC icon
     2 likes

    Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Epic Games Store
    • Steam
    • GOG.com
    • Playstation
    • itch.io
    • Nintendo Switch
    • Xbox
    • Humble Bundle
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    +8
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  8. Endless Sky icon
     15 likes

    Explore other star systems. Earn money by trading, carrying passengers, or completing missions. Use your earnings to buy a better ship or to upgrade the weapons and engines on your current one. Blow up pirates. Take sides in a civil war.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Steam
    • GOG.com
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    Early on in the game, you can earn a living just by buying commodities for a low price in one star system and selling them at a profit elsewhere..
    Finding trade routes, made easy: the map view shows commodity prices for other star systems and can color them based on price, to help you decide what trade goods you should buy in the current system for sale elsewhere.
    +2
    Once you've saved up enough money, you can spend it on upgrading your ship's equipment and weapons, or on a bigger ship.
    16 alternatives
  9. Fe icon
     2 likes

    Explore a mystical Nordic forest using a song-based mechanic to communicate with creatures, glide across treetops, and defeat the Silent Ones.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • EA App
    • Steam
    • Playstation
    • Nintendo Switch
    • Xbox
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    +3
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    58 alternatives
  10. Oolite icon
     13 likes

    Oolite is a space sim game, inspired by Elite. Among Oolite's several similarities to its inspirational source, the gaming experience is enhanced by the context set in Elite's original manual, and the accompanying novella, The Dark Wheel.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    +3
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    18 alternatives
  11. Core Keeper icon
     1 like

    Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Steam
    • Windows
    Banner
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    +11
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    4 alternatives
  12. Röki icon
     1 like

    Adventure through a fantastical world as Tove, uncovering hidden legends and solving ancient puzzles while navigating a mystical northern realm to save your family.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Epic Games Store
    • Steam
    • GOG.com
    • Playstation
    • Nintendo Switch
    • Xbox
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    +11
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    56 alternatives
  13. Astroneer icon
     5 likes

    Explore and reshape distant worlds! Astroneer is set during a 25th century gold rush where players must explore the frontiers of outer space, risking their lives in harsh environments for the chance of striking it rich.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
    • Xbox
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    +3
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    9 alternatives
  14. Lost in transit while on a colonist ship bound for the furthest edge of the galaxy, you awake decades later only to find yourself in the midst of a deep conspiracy threatening to destroy the Halcyon colony.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Epic Games Store
    • Steam
    • Playstation
    • Nintendo Switch
    • Xbox
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    26 alternatives