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 16%, Survival 15.2%, Online Co-Op 14.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op exploration, extensive voxel-based building, crafting progression, and boss-driven fantasy adventure make it one of the closest modern alternatives to Valheim.

On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Open World 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Survival 9.5%, Building 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This fantasy survival adventure similarly centers on gathering, crafting, building a settlement, and tackling dangerous regions with friends.

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 29.6% ★, Online Co-Op 11%, Base Building 9.6%, Survival 9.4%, Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines Norse-flavored wilderness survival and base construction with the extra layer of recruiting and managing villagers to sustain your settlement.

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 15.7%, Open World 14.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Crafting 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Although more action-RPG focused, it offers satisfying co-op progression through dangerous regions, bosses, resource tiers, and elaborate castle construction.

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 27.3% ★, Base Building 11%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world tribal survival, deep crafting, configurable settlements, and recruitable NPC companions fit the communal progression appeal of Valheim.

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 32.3% ★, Survival 14.5%, Base Building 10.1%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Crafting 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Grounded delivers excellent cooperative survival, polished base-building, biome exploration, and creature-boss progression in a distinctive miniature setting.

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 27.9% ★, Survival 9.5%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Base Building 8.7%, Open World 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival game captures Valheim's exploratory building loop while making everyday landscapes feel enormous through its tiny-adventurer premise.

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 19.8%, Open World 16%, Base Building 13.7%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Co-op 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A tense co-op survival sandbox with substantial building, exploration, resource gathering, and escalating hostile encounters across a large island.

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 30.3% ★, Survival 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Base Building 8.7%, Open World 7%

Why You'll Like It: Icarus emphasizes cooperative expeditions, harsh environmental survival, tiered technology, and constructing practical shelters before venturing into more dangerous territory.

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 30.2% ★, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Survival 9.4%, Open World 8.4%, Base Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its realm-hopping cooperative survival, handcrafted estate building, crafting progression, and fantasy exploration provide a more Victorian-magical take on the formula.

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 35.9% ★, Survival 13.7%, Multiplayer 8%, Co-op 7%, Crafting 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Raft turns the shared survival-and-building loop into a memorable cooperative voyage where your constantly expanding home is also your vehicle.

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 24.5% ★, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Survival 9.3%, Open World 9%, Base Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival sandbox has strong co-op exploration, crafting, base-building, procedural caves, and boss-gated progression despite its pixel-art perspective.

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 40.5% ★, Open World 7.8%, Survival 7.7%, Crafting 6.6%, Online Co-Op 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Necesse blends sandbox survival, settlement management, procedural exploration, and boss progression into a particularly good option for a small co-op group.

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 31.4% ★, Open World 12.1%, Survival 11.4%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Multiplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world co-op loop of exploring, gathering, building bases, fighting bosses, and raising helpful creatures makes for an accessible Valheim-like sandbox.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.1% ★, Survival 10%, Building 7.6%, Crafting 7.6%, Sandbox 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its immense crafting tree, exploration-driven combat, boss progression, and creative multiplayer construction offer a denser 2D version of the survival sandbox loop.

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 51.6% ★, Survival 15.8%, Open World 11%, Crafting 7.8%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A landmark co-op survival game built around gathering, shelter construction, cave exploration, and defending your camp from increasingly dangerous enemies.

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 34% ★, Building 10.6%, Open World 9.2%, Survival 9.2%, Base Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers large-scale multiplayer survival with detailed construction, crafting, taming, territorial progression, and a historical setting rather than fantasy Vikings.

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 37.9% ★, Survival 12.1%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Open World 7%

Why You'll Like It: For players who want a more demanding survival simulation, it provides cooperative jungle exploration, shelter building, crafting, and environmental threats.

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 31% ★, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival-crafting adventure focused on delving into dangerous procedurally generated mines and restoring a shared dwarven stronghold.

You are a fallen Spartan, cast into the realm between the living and the Underworld. In this survival adventure inspired by Greek myth, hunt, craft and build a home worthy of legend with up to 3 friends. Raid the gods' temples, defeat legendary creatures and loot the iconic weapons of the Olympians.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Survival 8.9%, Mythology 8.2%, Base Building 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This Greek-myth-inspired survival adventure shares Valheim's PvE-focused gathering, construction, exploration, and mythic boss-fighting structure.

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 32.1% ★, Survival 14.7%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Open World 9.7%, Base Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world co-op survival loop pairs scavenging and crafting with highly customizable base-building and regular defensive sieges.

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 41.7% ★, Survival 12.5%, Open World 9.2%, Building 7.4%, Crafting 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: ARK offers expansive multiplayer survival built around resource gathering, elaborate bases, dangerous biomes, and creature taming on a much larger scale.

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 63.3% ★, Survival 20.2%, Multiplayer 3.5%, Co-op 2.9%, Open World 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its stylized but punishing cooperative survival rewards careful resource management, exploration, crafting, and preparing a defensible camp for each new threat.

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 19.5%, Open World 17.1%, Online Co-Op 16.4%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world crafting and settlement building with recruitable villagers, tactical combat, and the gradual liberation of a medieval frontier.

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 30.1% ★, Online Co-Op 11%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its fantasy survival world features cooperative exploration, building, crafting, and progression through hostile magical regions and boss encounters.

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 16.8%, Survival 13.5%, Open World 12.2%, Base Building 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: It trades fantasy combat for a calmer medieval life-sim approach to gathering, building a village, crafting, and surviving with co-op support.

Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This exploration-heavy survival game emphasizes sailing between islands, managing harsh needs, crafting tools, and establishing secure outposts.

Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!

Why similar: Base Building 14.2%, Survival 13.8%, Open World 13.1%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Building 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A feudal Japanese counterpart to Valheim's settlement fantasy, with co-op survival, village construction, crafting, and a scenic open world.

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 29.9% ★, Survival 12.7%, Building 11.7%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Aloft offers a more relaxed cooperative survival-building experience centered on exploring airborne islands and transforming them into customizable flying homes.

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 28.8% ★, Survival 19%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 11%, Building 8.4%

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 37.6% ★, Online Co-Op 13%, Base Building 9.6%, Survival 9%, Mythology 8.3%

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 18.6% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Open World 12%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 10.3%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48% ★, Open World 15.5%, Survival 10.5%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Crafting 5.9%

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 34.3% ★, Survival 10.7%, Open World 10.3%, Base Building 8.6%, Multiplayer 7.3%

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 32.1% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 12.2%, Building 10%, Crafting 8.5%

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 25.6% ★, Mythology 10.9%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Crafting 8.4%, Survival 8.3%

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 33.6% ★, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 8.2%

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 36% ★, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Survival 8.4%, Base Building 7.7%, Open World 6.9%

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 42.3% ★, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Survival 8.3%, Crafting 6.9%, Open World 6.8%

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 32.3% ★, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Survival 9.1%, Open World 8.4%, Base Building 7.4%

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 33.3% ★, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 7.1%

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 27.7% ★, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 9%, Crafting 7.3%

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 31.2% ★, Survival 9.5%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Crafting 8.5%, Building 8.3%

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 40.9% ★, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 8.1%, Multiplayer 6.4%

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 28.1% ★, Survival 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Base Building 8%, Crafting 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 53.3% ★, Survival 17.8%, Open World 11.1%, Crafting 5.7%, 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 36% ★, Survival 19.1%, Open World 12.4%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Crafting 6.2%

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 46.2% ★, Survival 13.9%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.1%, Multiplayer 8%

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 28.8% ★, Open World 9.8%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8.2%

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 34.4% ★, Survival 9.8%, Open World 9.3%, Online Co-Op 7.9%, Base Building 7.5%

Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Base Building 9.9%

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Survival 9%, Building 8.7%, Crafting 8.3%

A classic voxel sandbox combined with in-depth progression through exploration, dungeon crawling and boss battles. Spend every minute discovering new weapons, abilities, resources, enemies, structures, mechanics and tools. With a strong focus on discovery, variety and creativity, the world is yours.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Survival 9.2%, Building 8.3%, Crafting 7.9%

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 29.2%, Open World Survival Craft 24.6% ★, Crafting 9.8%, Multiplayer 9.8%, PvE 7.6%

Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Survival 11%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.3%

Explore, Build, Farm, Craft and Fight in this survival sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Delve deep to uncover the secret of the invading 'Faults' and restore stability to the land.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Survival 9.4%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Building 7.8%, Crafting 7.7%

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 30.2% ★, Open World 14.4%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Multiplayer 7.1%

Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 9%, Open World 8.4%