MewnBase similar games & best alternatives

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MewnBase

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2023

Should you play it?

MewnBase is a space-cat survival and base-building game. Scavenge around a barren planet for items to keep you fed. Explore and collect resources. Craft items and grow your base to help you survive.

What works

  • Cute and relaxing gameplay
  • Stable and polished with minimal bugs
  • Good progression and base building mechanics
  • Accessible and easy to learn
  • Affordable price with good value

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited content and short main mission
  • Slow updates and development
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features
  • Some qol issues like inventory management
  • Repetitive after completing tech tree

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Farlands

  • Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey

  • AETHUS

  • Dawnfolk

  • Clockwork Cleanup

  • Cropdeck

More violent

Games that feels like MewnBase but with more combat and destruction

  • Infectonator 3: Apocalypse

  • Runestone Keeper

  • Stray Path

  • Crashlands

  • Endless Road: Reborn

  • Talented

Less fantastical

Games that feels like MewnBase but with less imaginative fiction

  • Lost But Found

  • Legend of Homebody

  • Ship, Inc.

  • BoomTown! Deluxe

  • Widget Inc.

  • Merge Maestro

Less survival-focused

Games that feels like MewnBase but with less survival pressure

  • Shokudo Underworld

  • Fishing Inc

  • DigDigDrill

  • Learning Factory

  • Captain Whiskers: Incremental Seas

  • BOOK OF HOURS

Choose your own criteria ->

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

MewnBase: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Survival, Story.

Last update: 04/08/2026