Games like Forager
If you like Forager (gathering, exploration and pixel art), these 10 games are similar in what you do and how you play. They go from most to least similar.
Necesse
- In common: progression and exploring
- Difference: more co-op
When you want a long playthrough, solo or with friends, beating bosses one by one while your village grows.
Terraria
- In common: progression and exploring
- Difference: more co-op
When you want a game for many sessions that mixes exploration, building and combat at your own pace.
Starbound
- In common: progression and exploring
- Difference: more co-op
When you want an endless world for weeks on end: with friends in online co-op, it's good for hundreds of hours.
Core Keeper
- In common: progression and exploring
- Difference: more co-op
When you want an exploration and building adventure at your own pace, ideally with friends.
Don't Starve
- In common: exploring and long sessions
- Difference: harder
When you have an afternoon ahead and fancy a survival challenge where every run teaches you something.
Graveyard Keeper
- In common: progression and a relaxed pace
- Difference: less exploring
When you want to optimise tasks calmly and fancy a macabre touch.
Subnautica
- In common: progression and exploring
- Difference: more story
When you have hours and want to explore: each deeper dive reveals new biomes and story progress.
Raft
- In common: progression and exploring
- Difference: more co-op
When you want relaxed survival with friends, in afternoons of expanding the raft and exploring islands.
Palworld
- In common: progression and exploring
- Difference: more co-op
When you want a long afternoon of exploring, capturing creatures and watching your base grow, ideally with friends.
Valheim
- In common: progression and exploring
- Difference: more co-op
When you have a long afternoon, ideally with friends: building the village together is one of the most satisfying things in the genre.
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 Forager
A 2D adventure about non-stop gathering: you mine rocks and fell trees, refine and craft, buy new islands with your gold, unlock skills on a large grid and head into dungeons with puzzles and bosses, until almost everything is automated.
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