Games like ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares
Looking for games like both ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares share Adventure 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 Little Nightmares 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 Little Nightmares. 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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Little Nightmares II
Second pick for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares. Shares Adventure with both games.
Little Nightmares II is the second game in a series that has thrilled and captivated millions of players worldwide since 2017. Now it’s your turn to try to survive this critically acclaimed entry in the most charming horror series ever made.
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Subnautica
Third pick for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares. 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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REANIMAL
Ranked #4 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares. Shares Adventure with both games.
The creators of Little Nightmares™ I & II have returned to take you on a darker, more terrifying journey than ever before. In this horror adventure game, a brother & sister go through hell to rescue their missing friends and escape the island that they used to call home.
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Dinosaur World
Ranked #5 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Dinosaur World is a survival game about dinosaurs.
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Grounded
Ranked #6 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares. 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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Little Nightmares Enhanced Edition
Ranked #7 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares. Shares Adventure with both games.
(Re)-Discover the dark whimsical tale of Little Nightmares, now enhanced in stunning 4K and 60 FPS. Play as Six, a lone child trapped in The Maw, a massive vessel inhabited by monstrous, distorted versions of adults. Sneak, hide, and survive in a world where your childhood fears come to life.
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The Forest
Ranked #8 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares. 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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Satisfactory
Ranked #9 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares. 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 #10 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares. 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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Out of Reach
Ranked #11 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares. 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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INSIDE
Ranked #12 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.
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Rem Survival
Ranked #13 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
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How to Survive 2
Ranked #14 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares. 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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Black The Fall
Ranked #15 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
After decades of toil, an old machinist plots his escape from Communism, through manipulation and scheming. Along the road, he befriends the most unlikely creature, an abandoned robot. Could they solve the puzzles and flee this bleak world together?
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No Man's Sky
Ranked #16 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares. 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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Rend
Ranked #17 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Epic fantasy adventure meets competitive survival in Rend. Inspired by the fabled universe of Nordic myth, choose to play solo in Classic and Exploration modes to build your stronghold, tame brutal creatures, and conquer enemy players or play among three rival factions in Faction War mode.
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Far Cry® Primal
Ranked #18 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
The award-winning Far Cry franchise returns with its innovative open world gameplay, bringing together massive beasts, breathtaking environments, and unpredictable savage encounters. Welcome to the Stone Age, a time of danger and adventure.
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Green Hell
Ranked #19 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares. 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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Still Wakes the Deep
Ranked #20 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
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Darkwood
Ranked #21 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Ranked #23 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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Valheim
Ranked #24 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Little Nightmares. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!