Games like ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert
Looking for games like both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert share Action, Adventure, Massively Multiplayer roots, making the overlapping player base a strong signal for what to play next. Each pick is scored by combining collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries — players who own ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert also tend to own these — with content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, plus review-mined vibe embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when genre labels differ. No Steam login required.
Best matches for fans of both games
Ranked by collaborative filtering, genre overlap, and review-mined vibes — the same signals that power imho.run.
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ARK: Survival Ascended
Top pick for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
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FINAL FANTASY XIV Online
Third pick for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with both games.
Join over 30 million adventurers worldwide and take part in an epic and ever-changing FINAL FANTASY. Experience an unforgettable story, exhilarating battles, and a myriad of captivating environments to explore.
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The Elder Scrolls® Online
Ranked #4 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Every legend starts somewhere and in The Elder Scrolls Online, it starts with you. Join millions of players in an online, fantasy RPG set in a vast living Elder Scrolls world.
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DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2
Ranked #5 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2 builds upon the highly popular DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE with enhanced graphics that will further immerse players into the largest and most detailed Dragon Ball world ever developed.
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EVE Online
Ranked #6 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.
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Rust
Ranked #7 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
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How to Survive 2
Ranked #8 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
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Life is Feudal: Your Own
Ranked #9 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
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Satisfactory
Ranked #10 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert. Shares Strategy and Indie with both games.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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No Man's Sky
Ranked #11 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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New World: Aeternum
Ranked #12 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Experience a thrilling action RPG set on the supernatural island of Aeternum. Forge your destiny on an adventure filled with danger and opportunity.
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TERA - Action MMORPG
Ranked #13 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
TERA is an epic fantasy MMORPG experience. Master the action-packed combat system and prove yourself in solo and multiplayer adventures – all in the stunningly beautiful world of Arborea!
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Guild Wars 2®
Ranked #14 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert. Shares Adventure and Massively Multiplayer with both games.
Guild Wars 2 is an award-winning online roleplaying game with fast-paced action combat, deep character customization, and no subscription fee required. Choose from an arsenal of professions and weapons, explore a vast open world, compete in PVP modes and more. Join over 16 million players now!
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Palworld
Ranked #15 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
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Wild Terra 2: New Lands
Ranked #16 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
MMORPG full of details that create a unique immersion and the spirit of adventure! Play your role in the life-filled medieval world controlled by players.
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Throne and Liberty
Ranked #17 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Throne and Liberty captures the essence of classic MMORPGs while introducing new gameplay elements, depth and excitement at every turn. Gather your guild, prepare for battle, and set forth for throne... and liberty!
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Don't Starve Together
Ranked #18 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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Secret World Legends
Ranked #19 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Secret World Legends is a story-driven, shared-world action RPG that plunges players into a shadowy war against the supernatural, where ancient myths and legends cross over into the modern day.
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RIFT
Ranked #20 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Dive into a world of epic adventure! Create your perfect hero thanks to a uniquely customizable class system. Collect, craft, and customize your gear. Go it alone or group up to challenge dungeons, raids, dynamic open-world content, and your fellow players.
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Out of Reach
Ranked #21 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
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Neverwinter
Ranked #22 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Neverwinter is a free, action MMORPG based on the acclaimed Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game. Epic stories, action combat and classic roleplaying await those heroes courageous enough to enter the fantastic world of Neverwinter!
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ATLAS
Ranked #23 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Set sail for the ultimate pirate experience! Embark on a grand adventure alongside thousands of other players in one of the largest game worlds ever built (and even claim a piece of it to call your own). Build your ship, assemble your crew, sail the high seas, and become a pirate legend!
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Dig or Die
Ranked #24 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Black Desert. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.