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"Give Me Basic " is a budget-friendly game that offers a sandbox experience similar to "Astroneer." Players can explore, gather resources, and build structures in a procedurally generated world, but may find that the game lacks some of the realism and polish of its inspiration. The game's Early Pack edition includes access to early updates and additional content. Follow the installation instructions provided in the game's YouTube video to get started.

"GROW: Song of the Evertree" is a calming sandbox game where you're an Everheart Alchemist, responsible for nurturing the Evertree and creating new worlds through alchemy. Explore the unique world and its vibrant flora and fauna at your own pace, choosing your activities from options like solving puzzles, collecting resources, or fishing. Your main goal is to grow the Evertree by crafting World Seeds and restoring the faded Worlds of Alaria.

Simmiland is a god-like card game where you create a world and play cards to develop civilization until the apocalypse. Your people's wishes grant you faith, which you need to play cards and advance technology. With various cards for natural resources, buildings, and inventions, guide your civilization to create churches, rockets, or other advancements before the end of the world.

In Reus 2, play as a god controlling mighty giants to shape worlds and create ecosystems for human civilizations to thrive. With 6 unique giants, each with their own abilities, terraform various biomes and gain inspiration to unlock more skills. Your choices will significantly impact the fates of these human beings, whose autonomy can lead them to great heights or failures.

"Loddlenaut is a single-player, open-world sci-fi game where you clean up an alien ocean planet as an interstellar custodian. Raise and care for adorable axolotl-like creatures called 'loddles' while uncovering an intriguing story of a spacefaring mega-corporation's abandonment. With splendid visuals, masterful soundtrack, and various gadgets to unlock, Loddlenaut offers an emotional, immersive experience, though be prepared for some grinding."

"Wildmender is an open-world, single-player and multiplayer co-op game with outstanding story and mechanics, set in a deserted world. Craft tools, grow gardens, delve into mysteries, befriend creatures, and defend the land from wraiths. Despite its wonderful visuals, exceptional soundtrack, and immersive gameplay, Wildmender is poorly optimized and buggy, with lots of grinding required."

Explore and exploit distant worlds in a game of aerospace industry and interplanetary exploration. With your gun you can reshape the landscape around you and gather resources. On your journey you come across special artifacts that will provide you with research points, in order to unlock new technologies. These include rovers and spaceships, in order the expand your reach on the planets in the sol…

"Earthtongue" is a single-player Science Fiction Simulation game with a stunning soundtrack, where players guide a sunless world of fungi and bugs. The objective is to maintain the ecosystem's balance, with limited goals such as maximizing the ecosystem's health or creating a fungal garden. The game allows players to peacefully observe the unfolding story of this unique world or interact with it through subtle nudges to breed bugs or influence the food chain.

Equilinox is a single-player 4X game that offers stunning visuals and an exceptional soundtrack, but can be very grinding with plenty of bugs. As a low-poly nature simulation game, it allows players to create and manage their own ecosystem in an engaging and highly emotional atmosphere, currently being developed in Java using OpenGL.

Early Access Roadmap a kurzgesagt universe The universe is a fascinating, yet unexplored place – it's about time to change that! Join your flock of Star Birds on a mission across the great beyond, establish a thriving mining operation, and discover new technologies to advance even further. And who knows? Maybe you'll encounter something that's truly out of this world ... About the GameSta…