Games like Mechanica
Games like Mechanica include 7 Days to Die, Terraria, ARK: Survival Evolved, Palworld, and Raft. We matched them by the tags players give Mechanica on Steam (Indie, Programming, Base Building, Building, and Survival): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

7 Days to Die
Shared: Survival · Base Building · Open World Survival Craft

Terraria
Shared: Survival · Sandbox · Open World Survival Craft

ARK: Survival Evolved
Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Building

Palworld
Shared: Survival · Indie · Open World Survival Craft

Raft
Shared: Survival · Building · Base Building

Rust
Shared: Survival · Building · Open World Survival Craft

Project Zomboid
Shared: Survival · Sandbox · Open World Survival Craft

Valheim
Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Building

Satisfactory
Shared: Base Building · Building · Automation

ARK: Survival Ascended
Shared: Survival · Base Building · Building

Stationeers
Shared: Base Building · Survival · Building

Scrap Mechanic
Shared: Building · Survival · Sandbox

Space Engineers
Shared: Building · Sandbox · Survival

TerraTech
Shared: Building · Sandbox · Open World Survival Craft

Factorio
Shared: Base Building · Sandbox · Automation

ASTRONEER
Shared: Survival · Base Building · Open World Survival Craft

Forager
Shared: Indie · Survival · Open World Survival Craft

Stormworks: Build and Rescue
Shared: Building · Base Building · Sandbox

Subsistence
Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Building

The Planet Crafter
Shared: Base Building · Survival · Building

Sons Of The Forest
Shared: Survival · Base Building · Building

Necesse
Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Indie · Survival

Green Hell
Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Base Building

The Front
Shared: Base Building · Survival · Open World Survival Craft