Games like Subnautica
If you like Subnautica (survival, exploration and open world), 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 progression
- Difference: more co-op
When you want survival with friends, with an adventurous tone and 90s-film humour.
The Long Dark
- In common: exploring and long sessions
- Difference: less building
When you want slow-paced, atmospheric survival, the kind that makes you feel the cold.
Raft
- In common: long sessions and progression
- Difference: more co-op
When you want relaxed survival with friends, in afternoons of expanding the raft and exploring islands.
Don't Starve
- In common: long sessions and exploring
- Difference: less story
When you have an afternoon ahead and fancy a survival challenge where every run teaches you something.
Valheim
- In common: long sessions 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.
Necesse
- In common: long sessions 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.
Core Keeper
- In common: long sessions and exploring
- Difference: more co-op
When you want an exploration and building adventure at your own pace, ideally with friends.
Palworld
- In common: long sessions and exploring
- Difference: more co-op
When you want a long afternoon of exploring, capturing creatures and watching your base grow, ideally with friends.
Don't Starve Together
- In common: long sessions and exploring
- Difference: more co-op
When you have friends and an afternoon ahead to survive together in a world that wants you dead.
Terraria
- In common: long sessions and exploring
- Difference: more co-op
When you want a game for many sessions that mixes exploration, building and combat at your own pace.
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 Subnautica
Your ship crashes on an ocean planet. To survive you have to dive ever deeper, build bases and vehicles and find out what happened here. Wonder and fear of the unknown in equal measure.
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