Games like ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight
Looking for games like both ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight share Action 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 Dead by Daylight 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 Dead by Daylight. 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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Valheim
Second pick for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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Dying Light
Third pick for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action and RPG with both games.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
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Rust
Ranked #4 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight. 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 #5 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight. 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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Don't Starve Together
Ranked #6 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight. 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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The Forest
Ranked #7 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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Grounded
Ranked #8 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
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Green Hell
Ranked #9 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
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Satisfactory
Ranked #10 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight. 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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Voidtrain
Ranked #11 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
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Subnautica
Ranked #12 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight. Shares Indie and Adventure with both games.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
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Dinosaur World
Ranked #14 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Dinosaur World is a survival game about dinosaurs.
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No Man's Sky
Ranked #15 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight. 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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Dig or Die
Ranked #16 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight. 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.
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Primal Carnage
Ranked #17 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
A savage online shooter, where players do battle as man or beast in class-based deathmatches and a frantic escape mode. Unleash your inner dinosaur!
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Sons Of The Forest
Ranked #18 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
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Left 4 Dead 2
Ranked #19 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action with both games.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
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7 Days to Die
Ranked #20 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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Friday the 13th: The Game
Ranked #21 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action with both games.
Jason is back! Jason Voorhees is unleashed and stalking the grounds of Camp Crystal Lake! Take on the role as Jason Voorhees and Camp Crystal Lake counselors. This is the game you’ve been waiting for; the chance to kill or be killed on Friday the 13th!
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Back 4 Blood
Ranked #22 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action with both games.
Back 4 Blood is a thrilling cooperative first-person shooter from the creators of the critically acclaimed Left 4 Dead franchise. Experience the intense 4 player co-op narrative campaign, competitive multiplayer as human or Ridden, and frenetic gameplay that keeps you in the action.
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Palworld
Ranked #23 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight. 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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XERA: Survival
Ranked #24 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Dead by Daylight. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…