Games like Valheim
If you like Valheim (survival, building and co-op), these 10 games are similar in what you do and how you play. They go from most to least similar.
Raft
- In common: co-op and long sessions
When you want relaxed survival with friends, in afternoons of expanding the raft and exploring islands.
Grounded
- In common: co-op and long sessions
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.
Don't Starve Together
- In common: co-op and long sessions
- Difference: less creative
When you have friends and an afternoon ahead to survive together in a world that wants you dead.
Core Keeper
- In common: co-op and progression
When you want an exploration and building adventure at your own pace, ideally with friends.
Terraria
- In common: long sessions and co-op
When you want a game for many sessions that mixes exploration, building and combat at your own pace.
Necesse
- In common: co-op and progression
When you want a long playthrough, solo or with friends, beating bosses one by one while your village grows.
Satisfactory
- In common: long sessions and building
- Difference: more thinking
When you have a long afternoon and want to build something huge and functional, solo or with friends.
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.
Subnautica
- In common: long sessions and exploring
- Difference: less co-op
When you have hours and want to explore: each deeper dive reveals new biomes and story progress.
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 Valheim
A dead Viking must prove his worth in a procedurally generated Norse purgatory. Chop trees, build wooden houses, sail and take on bosses. It shines in co-op with a small group of friends.
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