Games Like Valheim

You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Open World 15.4%, Online Co-Op 15%, Survival 14.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It nails the same co-op loop of building a base, exploring dangerous fantasy regions, upgrading gear, and tackling tougher enemies and bosses.

Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 12%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its harsh open-world survival, robust building system, multiplayer sandbox, and biome-by-biome PvE progression make it one of the closest Valheim alternatives.

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.8% ★, Survival 14.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Crafting 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Despite the backyard setting, it delivers remarkably similar co-op survival, crafted bases, dangerous exploration, and steady gear progression through distinct areas.

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Survival 15%, Base Building 13.9%, Open World 13.9%, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Crafting 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: The combination of base construction, resource runs, boss hunting, and cooperative progression strongly echoes Valheim with a faster action-RPG combat style.

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Survival 10.4%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Base Building 8.7%, Crafting 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its emphasis on co-op survival, gathering and crafting, base-building, and preparing for increasingly hostile expeditions fits the same appeal as Valheim.

Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 8.7%, Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It captures Valheim’s shared survival spirit with building, exploration, taming the environment, and venturing into threatening zones for progression.

Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.5% ★, Survival 12%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Open World 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: If you want the survival side of Valheim pushed harder, Green Hell offers demanding co-op wilderness management, shelter building, and dangerous exploration.

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.3% ★, Survival 13.7%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Crafting 7.1%, Co-op 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It trades forests for the ocean, but the cooperative gathering, crafting, expanding base, and exploration-driven progression feel very familiar.

A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is another co-op survival-crafting adventure built around exploring a hostile mythic world, expanding a home base, and pushing farther for better resources.

Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.7% ★, Base Building 11%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 10.3%, Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers another deep survival-crafting sandbox where you build up a settlement, explore a dangerous world, and progress through better gear and tougher encounters.

Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Survival 9.4%, Open World 8.3%, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its realm-hopping survival, crafting, base-building, and co-op exploration make it a strong match for players who love Valheim’s adventure-driven survival loop.

You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Survival 8.8%, Mythology 8.3%, Base Building 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its mythic survival-crafting structure, co-op focus, and progression through exploration and combat make it especially appealing to Valheim fans.

A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Base Building 9.7%, Survival 9.4%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: The Viking flavor, settlement building, survival systems, and long-term progression give it obvious overlap with Valheim even though it leans more into colony management.

On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Online Co-Op 10%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its fantasy co-op survival-crafting, open-world exploration, and gear-focused progression make it one of the more direct modern parallels to Valheim.

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Open World 11.7%, Survival 11.3%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Multiplayer 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Beneath the creature collecting, it shares Valheim’s addictive loop of gathering, building, exploring, and tackling stronger areas with friends.

A vibrant blend of survival and action RPG for 1-10 players! Craft legendary items, grow your home base and embark on an epic journey through procedural realms to face towering creatures hel-bent on unleashing Ragnarök. Valhalla can wait, Einherjar!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.8% ★, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Base Building 9.6%, Survival 8.9%, Mythology 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its Norse setting, co-op focus, crafting, and base-defense structure make it a thematic cousin to Valheim, even if it is more session-driven.

Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 8.7%, Open World 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Though top-down and pixel-based, it offers excellent co-op exploration, base-building, crafting, and boss progression that align closely with Valheim’s core appeal.

Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Survival 12.5%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 7.5%, Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Valheim players who enjoy taming a hostile world, building defensible bases, and pushing toward bigger threats should find a lot to like here.

Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Survival 19.5%, Open World 15.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Multiplayer 11%, Co-op 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers another tense co-op survival experience centered on scavenging, building a defensible base, and surviving increasingly dangerous expeditions.

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Open World 7.7%, Survival 7.7%, Crafting 6.8%, Online Co-Op 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival sandbox captures Valheim’s blend of building, exploration, crafting, and co-op progression while adding colony management elements.

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.5% ★, Survival 10%, Crafting 7.7%, Building 7.7%, Sandbox 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same satisfying cycle of exploration, base-building, crafting upgrades, and boss progression, just in a 2D sandbox format.

Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

Why similar: Survival 19.2%, Online Co-Op 16.9%, Open World 16.3%, Crafting 13.7%, Building 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: It blends open-world survival, crafting, building, and gradual world conquest in a way that scratches Valheim’s sense of building up from nothing.

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Survival 14.6%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Open World 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is more horde-focused, but the mix of scavenging, crafting, base-building, and co-op survival progression hits many of the same notes.

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.1% ★, Survival 15.9%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 8.1%, Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its day-to-day rhythm of gathering resources, fortifying a base, and venturing into deadly territory with friends feels close to Valheim’s survival adventure pacing.

An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Survival 10.9%, Building 10.6%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines cozy building and farming with dungeon delving, crafting, and survival progression, making it a lighter but very recognizable Valheim-like loop.

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 62.8% ★, Survival 20.3%, Multiplayer 3.6%, Co-op 2.9%, Open World 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is harsher and more stylized, but the cooperative survival, resource management, and steadily expanding base game will resonate with Valheim players.

Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Building 10.6%, Survival 9.2%, Base Building 9.1%, Open World 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This large-scale survival sandbox emphasizes progression, building, crafting, and cooperative control of a dangerous world in ways Valheim fans often appreciate.

Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.4% ★, Survival 11.6%, Base Building 9.4%, Co-op 8.3%, Crafting 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: The emphasis on co-op survival, scavenging, crafting, and building a secure base in a hostile open world makes it a solid Valheim-adjacent pick.

Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Survival 12.6%, Building 11.8%, Crafting 11.6%, Co-op 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival-crafting on floating islands captures Valheim’s exploratory base-building spirit in a more peaceful and whimsical form.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.1% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 10.5%

Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Open World 14.1%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 12.2%, Multiplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world crafting, building, combat, and multiplayer exploration make it a broad but valid match for players chasing another sandbox adventure.

The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Survival 19%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 10.8%, Building 8.4%

Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Online Co-Op 13%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 8.3%

Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 7.3%

An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.8% ★, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Survival 9.1%, Open World 8.3%, Base Building 7.5%

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.6% ★, Open World 15.3%, Survival 10.6%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Crafting 6%

Your avatar is a brave warrior who has fallen in battle. But instead of well-deserved peace in Asgard, his soul is trapped in the harsh world of Niffelheim. Survive in this hostile world, ransack the neighbor lands, explore dangerous dungeons and find your way to Valhalla

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Mythology 11%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Crafting 8.5%, Base Building 8.3%

Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 8.4%

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 8%, Multiplayer 6.5%

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.3% ★, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Survival 8.4%, Base Building 7.7%, Open World 6.8%

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.9% ★, Survival 17.9%, Open World 11%, Crafting 5.8%, Exploration 3.5%

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Survival 19.1%, Open World 12.2%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Crafting 6.3%

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.7% ★, Survival 13.9%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 8.3%, Multiplayer 8.2%

You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.6% ★, Online Co-Op 9%, Survival 8.3%, Crafting 7.1%, Sandbox 6.9%

Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.6% ★, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 9%, Online Co-Op 7.9%

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Survival 10.7%, Open World 10.1%, Base Building 8.7%, Multiplayer 7.4%

Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Open World 9.6%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.5%

Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Survival 9.2%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Crafting 8.1%, Base Building 8%

Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 8.2%

Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.5% ★, Survival 12.2%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 7.7%

Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.9% ★, Survival 12.1%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 9%

MISERY is a 1–10 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Survival 10.5%, Base Building 8.4%, Open World 8.2%

Experience a thrilling action RPG set on the supernatural island of Aeternum. Forge your destiny on an adventure filled with danger and opportunity.

Why similar: Open World 28.7%, Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Crafting 10%, Multiplayer 9.9%, PvE 7.9%

Embark on a 1-4 players Co-op survival adventure in an open world wilderness in search of a myth called the Lod Stone. Build your house, sow your crops, brew potions, tame a horse and discover powerful abilities. Venture into dangerous dungeons, fight unique bosses to find the Lod stone.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Base Building 7.6%

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Building 17.9%, Crafting 17.1%, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Open World 11.8%

The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.4% ★, Survival 15.3%, Open World 8.4%, Online Co-Op 7.4%, Multiplayer 7.2%

Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.4% ★, Open World 11.6%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 9.2%

A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 8.4%