The Best Crafting management exploration Games - Page 3

Update : Project Cobalt added at rank #1.
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Out of Ore (2022)

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PC Windows

Get ready for a casual heavy equipment experience in Out of Ore. You play as a prospector sent to the most northern base to mine and sell ore to earn a profit. Build roads, bridges, and tunnels to connect the base to other bases and take risks by getting big loans to buy equipment and tools. With a building system that allows you to build anything you want, paint and outfit your machines, and a terraformable world, you can knock down trees and move dirt all day long. Join the community now and start your mining career!

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What we like:
  • Solid proof of concept for an early access game
  • Good amount of starter machines to manage the mine site with
  • Developer regularly updates the game
  • Unique mining mechanic
  • Large map with potential for multiplayer
What could be improved:
  • Game-breaking bugs and crashes
  • No tutorial or instructions beyond basic tasks
  • Lack of item descriptions or instructions on how to use them
  • Building and machine attachment systems are clunky and frustrating

  • simulation
  • choices
  • sandbox
  • farming
  • building
  • third-person
  • 3d
  • base-building
  • exploration
  • realistic
  • atmospheric
  • crafting
  • first-person
  • management
  • relaxing

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Expansion Core (2022)

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early access PC Windows

Expansion Core is a Nomadic Survival game that borrows both first person and real time strategy elements. Gather resources, craft tools and build allies to help you survive. Inventory management is key as you move throughout the landscape.

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  • automation
  • pve
  • party
  • crafting
  • post-apocalyptic
  • stylized
  • robots
  • minimalist
  • sandbox
  • exploration
  • management
  • inventory
  • 3d
  • open-world
  • survival

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APICO (2022)

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APICO is the latest game in the sims genre, combining elements from Stardew Valley, Graveyard Keeper and Animal Crossing. Join your grandfather's beekeeping business on an island and craft, build and breed bees to discover extinct species. Experience a chilled adventure as you create your own unique world.

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What we like:
  • Crafting and building features are easy to pick up on
  • Chilled experience which allows you to complete the game at your own pace
  • Incorporates science into fun gameplay
What could be improved:
  • Initial NPCs lack personality compared to similar games
  • Tasks can be time consuming once you have a rhythm going

  • simulation
  • relaxing
  • education
  • farming
  • nature
  • immersive
  • management
  • crafting
  • cute
  • sims
  • building
  • exploration
  • life-sim
  • sandbox
  • top-down

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Elusive World (2021)

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PC Windows

FEATURES: - Survive against wild animals, common bandits, and overpowering rulers. - Collect ingredients to craft from simple arrows for your bow to complex Ice Sword. - Rich coming-of-age adventure. Single-player, story-driven RPG.

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  • crafting
  • management
  • hack-and-slash
  • inventory
  • cartoony
  • survival
  • exploration
  • open-world
  • pve
  • third-person
  • adventure
  • story
  • rpg
  • combat
  • violent

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Hero of the Kingdom: The Lost Tales 2 (2021)

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You, the princess, are having a small adventure outside the city walls. Meanwhile, the city is in flames, due to the attack of unknown monsters. You can’t lie idle. You must save your people, gain allies to fight by your side against evil and become a heroic princess.

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  • fishing
  • emotional
  • isometric
  • point-and-click
  • hidden-object
  • pirates
  • colourful
  • third-person
  • atmospheric
  • crafting
  • exploration
  • medieval
  • management
  • rpg
  • casual

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Hammerting (2021)

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PC Windows

Hammerting is a game about Dwarves living in a mountain cave, where players create and manage complex supply chains to arm their allies on the overworld and defeat their common enemy. The game involves turning the cubic chaos of mountainsides into a work of order and efficiency through investing in the Dwarves' well-being and building proper infrastructure. The game's RPG-lite elements give players a sense of wonder in exploring the deeper reaches of the mountain. However, the game suffers from AI tendencies that make it difficult to maintain long supply chains and careful resource management. Hammerting lacks the polish to grease the wheels of its impressive management hybrid, but it's worth playing for gamers who want something new and unusual.


What we like:
  • Variety of skills and buildings to master
  • Solid writing and interesting stories
  • Procedurally generated maps
  • Good dwarven society-building mechanic
  • Unique and unusual gameplay mechanic
What could be improved:
  • Difficulty in managing resources
  • Frustrating AI
  • Lackluster overworld missions
  • Poor optimization
  • Needs more fine-tuning

  • management
  • crafting
  • simulation
  • colony
  • resource-management
  • mining
  • automation
  • base-building
  • economy
  • lore
  • colony-building
  • exploration
  • building
  • inventory
  • procedural

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Ship Graveyard Simulator Collection (2021)

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PC Windows Xbox One

Visit the largest ship graveyard in the world. A dozen kilometers of beach filled with wrecks. Hundreds of ships wrecked on the coast. Thousands of tons of steel. Choose the most valuable ship for you and start the adventure. Play as one of the workers during the most dangerous work in the world!

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  • management
  • destruction
  • naval
  • simulation
  • inventory
  • life
  • education
  • sandbox
  • relaxing
  • crafting
  • atmospheric
  • physics
  • realistic
  • exploration
  • first-person

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Oakshade Acres (2021)

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Totemlands is a relaxing crafting, building game where you raise totem poles, hunt spirits, decorate and explore the lands.

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  • collectathon
  • fishing
  • agriculture
  • building
  • cozy
  • family-friendly
  • colourful
  • sandbox
  • cute
  • crafting
  • relaxing
  • simulation
  • open-world
  • management
  • exploration

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Shattered Gardens (2021)

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early access Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Shattered Gardens is the all-new Open-World, Fantasy RPG! Release sale now on!

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  • cinematic
  • character
  • 3d
  • open-world
  • third-person
  • colourful
  • exploration
  • customization
  • crafting
  • management
  • fantasy
  • inventory
  • casual
  • rpg

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Lightsmith (2021)

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early access Linux Mac OS PC Windows

In this dark and gloomy world we must forge our own light... Build up your forge, help the citizens of Gloomsdale, & bring light back to the world in this crafting sim with charming black & white 2D pixelart.

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  • nonlinear
  • conversation
  • crafting
  • supernatural
  • action-adventure
  • top-down
  • management
  • dark
  • pixel
  • inventory
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • story
  • 2d
  • fantasy

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