Games like Rust
If you like Rust (survival, pvp and building), these 10 games are similar in what you do and how you play. They go from most to least similar.
Grounded
- In common: long sessions and building
- Difference: less multiplayer
When you want survival with friends, with an adventurous tone and 90s-film humour.
Raft
- In common: long sessions and building
- Difference: less multiplayer
When you want relaxed survival with friends, in afternoons of expanding the raft and exploring islands.
V Rising
- In common: long sessions and action
- Difference: less multiplayer
When you have friends to play with and plenty of evenings ahead to hunt bosses and build a castle together.
Project Zomboid
- In common: long sessions and a challenge
- Difference: less multiplayer
When you have hours and want the most complete, tense survival simulation.
Don't Starve Together
- In common: long sessions and a challenge
- Difference: less multiplayer
When you have friends and an afternoon ahead to survive together in a world that wants you dead.
Valheim
- In common: long sessions and building
- Difference: less multiplayer
When you have a long afternoon, ideally with friends: building the village together is one of the most satisfying things in the genre.
Necesse
- In common: long sessions and building
- Difference: less multiplayer
When you want a long playthrough, solo or with friends, beating bosses one by one while your village grows.
7 Days to Die
- In common: long sessions and building
- Difference: less multiplayer
When you fancy a long game with a fixed date in the diary: getting the fort ready for the horde every seventh night.
Terraria
- In common: long sessions and building
- Difference: less multiplayer
When you want a game for many sessions that mixes exploration, building and combat at your own pace.
Palworld
- In common: long sessions and building
- Difference: less multiplayer
When you want a long afternoon of exploring, capturing creatures and watching your base grow, ideally with friends.
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 Rust
Multiplayer survival on busy servers: you spawn naked with a rock and a torch, gather wood, stone and ore, craft weapons, put up a base and defend it from raids until the server is wiped.
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