The Best Crafting Games for Playstation 4 - Page 2

Update : Core Keeper added at rank #3.
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Terraria (2011)

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PC Windows Xbox 360 Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile Nintendo Switch Mac OS Linux stadia Xbox One wii u Playstation 4 IOS iPhone Nintendo 3DS Android vita Playstation 3

Terraria is an addictive, systems-heavy, 2D sandbox-survival game that offers exploration, crafting, and combat, where you must defeat enemies and gather resources to build increasingly powerful weapons, armor and housing for NPCs. With pixelated visuals, great controls, and sound, Terraria provides hours of entertainment and is a must-have for Minecraft fans looking for something different in this genre.


What we like:
  • Addictive gameplay
  • Pixelated 2D sprites that are beautifully designed
  • Complex systems-heavy gameplay
  • The game has a purpose to serve with the housing of NPCs
  • Great and responsive controls
What could be improved:
  • The game has too many shortcuts and menus, which may overwhelm new players
  • Not a lot of screen space on small touch-screen devices

  • crafting
  • sandbox
  • survival
  • boss
  • inventory
  • multiplayer
  • adventure
  • 2d
  • pixel
  • open-world
  • exploration
  • platform
  • zombies
  • online

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DYSMANTLE (2021)

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Playstation 4 Android IOS iPhone Playstation 5 PC Windows Mac OS Xbox Series X Xbox One Nintendo Switch

DYSMANTLE is a post-apocalyptic open-world game where you explore a world inhabited by nasty and vile creatures. Craft permanent weapons, tools, outfits, and trinkets, farm plants, cook delicious recipes, and solve puzzles to gain upgrades. With over 99% of everything breakable for materials, the possibilities are endless. Enjoy the bittersweet apocalypse and thrive in a dangerous world.


What we like:
  • Progression system is nice
  • Unique story with nice plot twist
  • Great feedback when hitting stuff
  • Cathartic to destroy everything
  • Good value for amount of content
What could be improved:
  • Crafting system is too grindy
  • Building feels like an afterthought
  • Travel is painfully slow
  • Lack of purpose for building and sleeping

  • zombies
  • -
  • survival
  • open-world
  • crafting
  • post-apocalyptic
  • beast
  • rpg
  • hunting

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TerraTech (2018)

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90
Review score
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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One Mac OS Linux

TerraTech is the perfect game for creative kids who love to build their own vehicles and explore a randomly generated world. Construct powerful machines, bases, and weapons to defend against rival miners, gather resources, and improve your standing with the Mining Corporations. Explore treacherous mountain ranges, luscious grasslands, and huge deserts while building and creating your own unique style. The gameplay is fun and intuitive, and the simplistic graphics don't require high-end hardware.


What we like:
  • Fun and intuitive gameplay
  • Creative freedom with lots of room for your own style
  • Enticing game with interesting mechanics
  • Simplistic graphics don't require high-end hardware
  • Provides a unique and addictive experience
What could be improved:
  • Feels empty with repetitive fetch quests
  • Lack of big updates
  • Multiplayer needs a lot of work

  • sandbox
  • building
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • construction
  • vehicle
  • survival
  • robots
  • physics
  • early-access
  • exploration
  • funny-looking
  • online
  • vehicles

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No Man's Sky (2016)

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psvr Android Mac OS Playstation 5 Xbox One Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox Series X osvr

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

15

ARK: Survival Evolved (2017)

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Android Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch Mac OS Linux IOS iPhone stadia

ARK: Survival Evolved is an action-adventure game that throws you into a mysterious world filled with dinosaurs, where you must learn to survive and craft your own weapons, clothing, and tools in order to thrive. You must explore the land, build bases and enlist the help of creatures in order to defend against predators. With beautiful water animations, lush forests and varied creatures ARK will keep you engaged and entertained for hours.


What we like:
  • Varied creatures to explore & tame
  • Combat is incredibly satisfying
  • Crafted weapons can be used to threaten or destroy enemies
  • Trading items with other players
  • Stunning visuals & water animations
What could be improved:
  • Awful character customisation
  • Long taming process can test patience

  • survival
  • dinosaurs
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • subdue-
  • -protect

16

Dig or Die (2018)

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85
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PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One j Xbox Series X

In Dig or Die, you are stranded on a hostile planet and must build strong defenses to survive massive attacks each night. Explore, craft, and build intricate structures in a science-fiction world with realistic physics and even a water cycle to manage. With no hunger needs to worry about, the game is all about surviving the night attacks and ultimately building a rocket ship to escape the planet. Experience fast and fun laser gun fights in a procedurally generated environment and a global real-time simulation.


What we like:
  • Interesting gameplay mechanics
  • Good difficulty balance
  • Replayability with randomly generated maps and several game modes
  • Unique gameplay ideas and concepts
  • Physics-based gameplay with liquid and structural physics
What could be improved:
  • Jetpack mechanics are dull
  • Jumping is not perfect
  • Limited monster variety and no melee combat or interesting weapons
  • Physics simulation with buildings can be weird
  • Exploration and material gathering can get tedious

  • crafting
  • survival
  • sandbox
  • terraria
  • open-world
  • physics
  • 2d
  • building
  • tower-defense
  • base-building

17

Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator (2022)

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Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator is a thoughtful, intelligent crafting title that offers a deeply-robust gameplay experience. Players take on the role of an alchemist in Medieval times, gathering herbs for recipes, forming bonds with merchants and experimenting with potion combinations to create the Philosopher's Stone. Interacting with ingredients to see what combinations are most effective is at the heart of the crafting system and failure is rewarded as players learn from their mistakes.


What we like:
  • Unique crafting system
  • No punishment for failure
  • Thoughtful and intelligent game design
  • Visually appealing artistry and cozy atmosphere
What could be improved:
  • Limited access to ingredients due to limited resources and money-management
  • Haggling can affect shop reputation over time

  • simulation
  • crafting
  • relaxing
  • medieval
  • life
  • management
  • resource-management
  • sandbox
  • table
  • investigation
  • hand-drawn
  • farming
  • casual
  • book

18

Starsand (2021)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows

In Starsand, you'll explore a vast and unforgiving desert, scavenging for resources, building a shelter, and hunting to survive. With dynamic weather and day/night changes, you'll have to plan and act wisely to uncover the secrets of an ancient civilization and make it back home. Can you survive in this harsh environment and make it out alive?


What we like:
  • Good survival elements
  • Interesting premise
  • Nice desert atmosphere
  • Nice exploration aspects
  • Unique navigation system
What could be improved:
  • Limited content
  • Clunky gameplay
  • Unforgiving resource allocation
  • Bugs and glitches
  • Lack of save points

  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • building
  • inventory
  • 3d
  • management
  • sandbox
  • aliens
  • sci-fi
  • atmospheric
  • realistic
  • first-person

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Epic Chef (2021)

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81
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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4

Epic Chef is a third-person life sim game that takes you on a narrative-focused crafting adventure. Follow Zest, a guy who stows away aboard a ship to get to new lands and gets embroiled in events surrounding the Culinarim. Enjoy the humorous script, simple graphics with plenty of personality, and deep cooking minigame.


What we like:
  • Humorous script with laugh-out-loud jokes
  • Simple graphics with plenty of personality
  • Deep cooking minigame with elements of planning and depth
What could be improved:
  • Tedious gameplay with slow pacing
  • Grinding for element bonuses to level up for more synergies required
  • No manual save feature

  • farming
  • simulation
  • cooking
  • crafting
  • story
  • life
  • comedy
  • funny
  • cartoony
  • life-sim
  • immersive
  • adventure

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Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak (2022)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows

Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak is an expansion to the original Monster Hunter Rise. Featuring improved gameplay and nimble-feeling additions to combat mechanics, unique new monsters and hunting locales, and a new difficulty level in the form of Master Rank quests. As the hunter who saved Kamura from calamity, you must now journey to the far-off reaches of Elgado, an outpost near a Kingdom beset by a sinister new nemesis—the elder dragon Malzeno!


  • rpg
  • fight
  • online
  • battle
  • combat
  • cooperative
  • skill
  • crafting
  • action
  • japanese
  • farming
  • boss
  • difficult
  • dragon
  • customization

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