Games like ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia
Looking for games like both ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia share Action, Indie 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 Phasmophobia 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 Phasmophobia. 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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Grounded
Second pick for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia. 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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How to Survive 2
Third pick for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia. 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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Palworld
Ranked #4 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia. 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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Dinosaur World
Ranked #5 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Dinosaur World is a survival game about dinosaurs.
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Satisfactory
Ranked #6 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia. 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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Subnautica
Ranked #7 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia. 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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The Forest
Ranked #8 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia. 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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Out of Reach
Ranked #9 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia. 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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Voidtrain
Ranked #11 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia. 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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Green Hell
Ranked #12 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia. 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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Dig or Die
Ranked #13 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia. 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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No Man's Sky
Ranked #14 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia. 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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Valheim
Ranked #15 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia. 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!
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Rem Survival
Ranked #16 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia. 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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Ghost Exorcism INC.
Ranked #17 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Ghost Exorcism INC is a horror game where you can play alone, or in a team of up to 6 exorcists. Your mission will be to identify paranormal entities, and then exorcise them.
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Secret World Legends
Ranked #18 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia. 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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The Riftbreaker
Ranked #19 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
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Rust
Ranked #20 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia. 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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Rend
Ranked #21 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia. 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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Raft
Ranked #22 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia. Shares Indie and Adventure with both games.
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
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Escape Simulator
Ranked #23 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia. Shares Indie and Adventure with both games.
First-person puzzler you can play solo or in an online co-op. Explore a set of highly interactive escape rooms. Move furniture, pick up and examine everything, smash pots and break locks! Play thousands of community-made rooms through the level editor.
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Life is Feudal: Your Own
Ranked #24 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Phasmophobia. 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!