Survival & Crafting Templates
Gather, build, and endure. Harsh environments where staying alive is the game.
Crafting Survival
Build a survival game where players gather raw materials, craft tools and shelters, and push back against hunger, cold, and hostile wildlife. Describe your vision and Summer Engine builds the foundation with you.
Open World Survival Craft
Build an expansive open world survival game where the map is the progression system. Players discover biomes, unlock new crafting options, and face escalating threats as they push further from their starting point.
Base Building Survival
Create a survival game centered on constructing and fortifying a base against waves of enemies, environmental threats, and resource scarcity. The base is the game.
Zombie Survival
Build a zombie survival game where players scavenge a ruined world, manage supplies, and avoid or fight the undead. Every decision in the first hour sets up the rest of the game.
Post-Apocalyptic Survival
Build a post-apocalyptic survival game where players navigate the ruins of civilization, trade and fight with survivor factions, and try to carve out a place in a world that no longer has a rule book.
Extraction Survival
Build an extraction survival game where players gear up, drop into a dangerous zone, scavenge what they can, and fight to reach an extraction point before time runs out or enemies take everything.
Voxel Sandbox
Build a voxel world game where players mine terrain, construct structures block by block, and interact with a fully destructible and constructible environment. The world is the canvas.
Minecraft-Style Voxel World
Build a Minecraft-style infinite voxel world with block-by-block construction, survival mechanics, crafting table recipes, multiple dimensions, redstone-like logic circuits, and a day/night cycle where darkness brings danger.
Terraria-Style 2D Sandbox
Build a Terraria-style 2D side-scrolling sandbox with layered world generation, boss progression that transforms the world, emergent class systems from equipment, NPC housing, extensive crafting chains, and hundreds of unique weapons.
Building Sandbox
Build a construction sandbox where players design and place modular building pieces to create anything from houses to cities to impossible structures. Creativity is the game.
Physics Sandbox
Create a physics sandbox where players construct vehicles, contraptions, and structures, then test them against gravity, collisions, and destruction. The experiment is the game.
Space Survival
Build a space survival game where players mine asteroids, build space stations, manage life support, and survive in an environment that will kill them in a dozen different ways the moment they make a mistake.