Games like Terraria
If you like Terraria (sandbox, adventure and building), 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 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: progression and co-op
When you want an exploration and building adventure at your own pace, ideally with friends.
Valheim
- In common: long sessions and 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.
Don't Starve Together
- In common: co-op and long sessions
- Difference: more management
When you have friends and an afternoon ahead to survive together in a world that wants you dead.
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: less action
When you want relaxed survival with friends, in afternoons of expanding the raft and exploring islands.
Project Zomboid
- In common: long sessions and co-op
- Difference: more management
When you have hours and want the most complete, tense survival simulation.
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.
Satisfactory
- In common: long sessions and progression
- Difference: less action
When you have a long afternoon and want to build something huge and functional, solo or 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 Terraria
A 2D sandbox where you dig, build and fight dozens of bosses. It looks simple but hides hundreds of hours of progression: every boss you defeat unlocks new materials, enemies and biomes.
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