The Best Crafting Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 3

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Minecraft: Deluxe Collection (2023)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One

The Deluxe Collection includes this added content in addition to Minecraft: 1600 Minecoins; six maps; three skin packs (Spy Mobs, Cute Anime Teens, and Cute Mob Skins), one texture pack (Clarity), five Character Creator items, and three emotes.

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  • sandbox
  • crafting
  • split-screen
  • turn-based
  • zombies
  • inventory
  • multiplayer
  • endless
  • cooperative
  • strategy
  • online
  • card
  • grid
  • controller-support
  • battler

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GIRLS MADE PUDDING (2025)

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Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows

"When there's nobody there to see you, you disappear." In Girls Made Pudding, two girls tour a series of towns that people have disappeared from.


  • motorbike
  • cooking
  • fiction
  • choices
  • visual-novel
  • crafting
  • adventure
  • interactive
  • cute
  • walking-simulator
  • exploration
  • sci-fi
  • 3d
  • 2d
  • controller-support

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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

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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?

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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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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.

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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
  • crafting
  • cooking
  • story
  • life-sim
  • life
  • comedy
  • funny
  • cartoony

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UNDYING (2021)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Survive a zombie apocalypse in UNDYING, a heart-wrenching tale of a mother teaching her son to survive. Experience a captivating narrative with smooth gameplay and an enjoyable art style. Or solve cryptic puzzles in Quern: Undying Thoughts, a game that pays homage to the classic Myst series with its grim atmosphere and challenging puzzles.


What we like:
  • Emotional and captivating narrative
  • Smooth gameplay
  • Enjoyable art style
  • Challenging puzzles
  • Homage to classic Myst series
What could be improved:
  • Lack of endgame content
  • Repetitive teaching mechanic
  • Dialogue and subtitle issues
  • Unbalanced story mode

  • survival
  • zombies
  • post-apocalyptic
  • rpg
  • crafting
  • story
  • open-world
  • management
  • multiple-endings
  • first-person
  • adventure
  • cooking
  • inventory
  • cinematic
  • choices

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Miniland Adventure (2024)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One Nintendo Switch

The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!


  • crafting
  • survival
  • open-world
  • sandbox
  • base-building
  • pixel
  • building
  • farming
  • underground
  • collectathon
  • god-game
  • resource-management
  • inventory
  • relaxing
  • 2d

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ARIDA: Backland's Awakening (2019)

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ARIDA: Backland's Awakening. A story of survival and adventure in the brazilian backlands. Face the drought to explore the more arid regions, gather resources and discover clues about the fate of the young Cícera.


  • historical
  • crafting
  • collectathon
  • survival
  • emotional
  • nature
  • family-friendly
  • short
  • cartoony
  • linear
  • stylized
  • inventory
  • adventure
  • third-person
  • 3d

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DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS 2 (2018)

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Nintendo Switch Android Xbox One PC Windows Playstation 4

Embark on an epic journey to rebuild destroyed lands and battle against the evil Children of Hargon in the open-world fantasy block-building RPG, DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS 2. With unlimited building combinations and online play, the creative possibilities are endless. Try the DEMO to experience this critically acclaimed game now!

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What we like:
  • Fun and addictive gameplay
  • Engaging story and characters
  • Large variety of building materials
  • Lots of customization options
What could be improved:
  • Limited multiplayer options
  • Tedious early game building
  • Repetitive music
  • Some rooms/recipes not well-explained in-game

  • rpg
  • farming
  • japanese
  • crafting
  • sandbox
  • building
  • jrpg
  • combat
  • multiplayer
  • adventure
  • open-ended
  • narrative
  • cult
  • boss-fight
  • survival

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Mineko's Night Market (2022)

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Mineko’s Night Market is a narrative-driven, social simulation adventure game that celebrates Japanese culture and invites players to craft whimsical items, eat delicious snacks, and ultimately enjoy all the cats.

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  • crafting
  • simulation
  • cats
  • business
  • fishing
  • cute
  • relaxing
  • hand-drawn
  • farming
  • local

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