The Best Crafting management exploration Games for Xbox Series X

Update : Techtonica added at rank #5.
Here are our 10 Best Crafting management exploration Games for Xbox Series X:
1

No Man's Sky (2016)

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No Man's Sky is a massive universe-sim sandbox experience that lets you explore an infinite number of planets with unique lifeforms and environments. Upgrade your ship and suit for survival and choose your own path - whether you want to be a trader, fighter, or explorer. The game offers great graphics and good VR support with the ability to play with friends and share your discoveries.

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What we like:
  • Deliver on promises
  • Great graphics
  • Cross-play enabled
  • Good VR support
What could be improved:
  • Some bugs present
  • Not challenging enough
  • No co-op progression

  • inventory
  • survival
  • exploration
  • crafting
  • sci-fi
  • pirates
  • resource
  • aliens
  • trading
  • discovery
  • multiplayer
  • sandbox
  • space
  • management
  • open-world

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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.


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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Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 (2023)

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Dust off your torch and hammer - it's time to get back to work, you have a new job to do. Visit the new beach coast with the largest, biggest ship graveyard in the world, dismantle huge ship parts and collect tons of precious steel. Roll up your sleeves, it's time to get back to the business.


  • destruction
  • management
  • building
  • simulation
  • relaxing
  • sandbox
  • inventory
  • realistic
  • exploration
  • family-friendly
  • first-person
  • crafting
  • education
  • atmospheric
  • truck

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Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders (2024)

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Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders is an action-adventure RPG with base-building elements, where you take on the role of a classic hero who stands up to the tyranny and injustice that haunts Sherwood. Fight, craft, steal, and of course help the local people grow and prosper.


  • base-building
  • medieval
  • archery
  • nonlinear
  • open-world
  • rpg
  • action-adventure
  • nature
  • building
  • management
  • exploration
  • crafting
  • third-person
  • 3d
  • survival

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Techtonica (2024)

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Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.


  • automation
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • building
  • resource-management
  • simulation
  • crafting
  • cooperative
  • immersive
  • sandbox
  • management
  • exploration
  • sci-fi
  • colourful

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