Games like Craftopia
If Craftopia is your kind of game, the closest matches are Palworld, Night of the Dead and Nightingale — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its automate tasks, catching creatures is funny and combat is rewarding. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Craftopia is a 2020 open-world survival sandbox from Pocketpair that blends action RPG combat with farming, automation, and creature collection. Players build bases, tackle dungeons, and battle bosses while gathering resources to automate increasingly complex production chains. Reviewers highlight that combat feels rewarding and that automating tasks provides a compelling long-term loop across its massive world. Players describe catching creatures as a humorous diversion that keeps exploration feeling fresh, and note that multiplayer is flexible enough to accommodate different play styles. Quest rewards offer tangible progression milestones throughout. The game supports online co-op and runs at a playable level on Steam Deck. Based on approximately 7,400 Steam reviews, it holds an 80% positive rating.
About Craftopia: Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
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Palworld
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Craftopia.
Top pick for Craftopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Night of the Dead
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Craftopia.
Second-strongest match for Craftopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Nightingale
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Craftopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Craftopia.
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Necesse
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Craftopia.
Ranked #4 for Craftopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Soulmask
WHY THIS
Shares automation, base building and a challenging mood with Craftopia.
Ranked #5 for Craftopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Craftopia.
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Enshrouded
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Craftopia.
Ranked #6 for Craftopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
RuneScape: Dragonwilds
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Craftopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Craftopia.
On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.
Core Keeper
WHY THIS
Shares automation and base building with Craftopia.
Ranked #8 for Craftopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
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.
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Palworld
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Craftopia.
Reviewers of Craftopia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Craftopia.
Reviewers of Craftopia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Craftopia.
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!
Paragon: The Overprime
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Craftopia.
Reviewers of Craftopia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Craftopia.
Paragon: The Overprime is a free team-based TPS Action MOBA. Choose one of the many powerful heroes with unique skills and work with your teammates to conquer the Prime battlefield. Speed across the battlefield with the heroes of Prime and feel the thrill of the action.
Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Craftopia.
Reviewers of Craftopia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Craftopia.
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.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares base building, crafting and a challenging mood with Craftopia.
Reviewers of Craftopia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Necesse
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Craftopia.
Reviewers of Craftopia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Breath of the Forest
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Craftopia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Craftopia.
You will experience the journey of the Kaiak, a native who was chosen by Mother Nature to fight an evil entity that wants to destroy the forest and animals. Get ready to use the magic bow of Tupã and control the four natural elements.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares boss fights and a challenging mood with Craftopia.
Reviewers of Craftopia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Craftopia at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares boss fights and a challenging mood with Craftopia.
Priced ~60% under Craftopia on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Craftopia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Craftopia.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Craftopia on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Craftopia on Steam right now. Shares Action with Craftopia.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Craftopia on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Craftopia on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Craftopia.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Craftopia.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Craftopia.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Craftopia.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Craftopia.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Craftopia.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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More from Pocketpair
Other recommendable Steam games by Pocketpair, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Palworld
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Craftopia.
Another title from Pocketpair, the studio behind Craftopia. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Overdungeon
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Craftopia.
Another title from Pocketpair, the studio behind Craftopia. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
A completely new style real-time card battle "Overdungeon" Overdungeon combines rogue-like, tower defense and card games. More than 100 cards are Attack, Animal, Building, Spell, Trap, etc..Build your creative and crazy deck!
AI: Art Impostor
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Craftopia.
Another title from Pocketpair, the studio behind Craftopia. Shares Early Access with Craftopia.
AI: Art Impostor is an AI drawing party game for 3-8 players. You are a progressive artist who commands AI to generate images, and you don't need aesthetic talent to draw good artwork. It only takes 5 mins to play, and multiplayer between Steam, Android, and iOS is supported!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Palworld
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Craftopia.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Necesse
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Craftopia.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Core Keeper
WHY THIS
Shares automation and base building with Craftopia.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
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.
Frequently asked about Craftopia
- Does Craftopia run on Steam Deck?
- Craftopia is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Craftopia cost?
- Craftopia is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Craftopia have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Craftopia supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Craftopia?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Craftopia are Palworld, Night of the Dead, Nightingale.
- Who developed Craftopia?
- Craftopia was developed by Pocketpair.
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