Games like The Little Crane That Could
Games like The Little Crane That Could include Goat Simulator, Kerbal Space Program, Kenshi, BeamNG.drive, and Space Engineers. We matched them by the tags players give The Little Crane That Could on Steam (Simulation, Indie, Sandbox, Third Person, and Procedural Generation): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

Goat Simulator
Shared: Simulation · Sandbox · Open World

Kerbal Space Program
Shared: Simulation · Sandbox · Indie

Kenshi
Shared: Sandbox · Open World · Simulation

BeamNG.drive
Shared: Simulation · Sandbox · Open World

Space Engineers
Shared: Sandbox · Simulation · Open World

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Shared: Open World · Sandbox · Simulation

Project Zomboid
Shared: Sandbox · Open World · Indie

Wobbly Life
Shared: Simulation · Sandbox · Open World

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
Shared: Simulation · Sandbox · Indie

The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome
Shared: Sandbox · Indie · Open World

Gold Mining Simulator
Shared: Simulation · Indie · Open World

Stardew Valley
Shared: Simulation · Sandbox · Indie

Paralives
Shared: Simulation · Indie · Open World

No Man's Sky
Shared: Open World · Procedural Generation · Sandbox

鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal
Shared: Simulation · Sandbox · Indie

SnowRunner
Shared: Simulation · Sandbox · Open World

Soulash 2
Shared: Sandbox · Simulation · Procedural Generation

WorldBox - God Simulator
Shared: Simulation · Sandbox · Indie

Banished
Shared: Simulation · Indie · Sandbox

Scrap Mechanic
Shared: Sandbox · Open World · Third Person

Dwarf Fortress
Shared: Simulation · Sandbox · Indie

Don't Starve Together
Shared: Open World · Sandbox · Indie

Everything
Shared: Simulation · Indie · Sandbox

SPORE™
Shared: Sandbox · Simulation · Open World