Games like Don't Starve Together
If you like Don't Starve Together (survival, co-op and tim burton style), these 10 games are similar in what you do and how you play. They go from most to least similar.
Grounded
- In common: co-op and long sessions
- Difference: more story
When you want survival with friends, with an adventurous tone and 90s-film humour.
Palworld
- In common: co-op and long sessions
When you want a long afternoon of exploring, capturing creatures and watching your base grow, ideally with friends.
Raft
- In common: co-op and long sessions
- Difference: easier
When you want relaxed survival with friends, in afternoons of expanding the raft and exploring islands.
Valheim
- In common: co-op and long sessions
- Difference: more creative
When you have a long afternoon, ideally with friends: building the village together is one of the most satisfying things in the genre.
Don't Starve
- In common: long sessions and exploring
- Difference: less co-op
When you have an afternoon ahead and fancy a survival challenge where every run teaches you something.
Terraria
- In common: co-op and long sessions
- Difference: less management
When you want a game for many sessions that mixes exploration, building and combat at your own pace.
Project Zomboid
- In common: long sessions and co-op
When you have hours and want the most complete, tense survival simulation.
Necesse
- In common: co-op and long sessions
When you want a long playthrough, solo or with friends, beating bosses one by one while your village grows.
Core Keeper
- In common: co-op and long sessions
- Difference: easier
When you want an exploration and building adventure at your own pace, ideally with friends.
The Long Dark
- In common: long sessions and exploring
- Difference: less co-op
When you want slow-paced, atmospheric survival, the kind that makes you feel the cold.
How we pick them
We compare the tags the Steam community gives each game with our own classification: what you do (action, story, building…), the difficulty, how long sessions last and whether you play alone or with others. Nobody pays to appear.
About Don't Starve Together
Survival in a strange, hostile world with a gothic fairy-tale look. Gather, craft, feed yourself and endure the nights and seasons, preferably with friends. Hard and tutorial-free, but very satisfying.
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