Games like ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition
Looking for games like both ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition share Action, 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 Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition 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 Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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Windrose
Second pick for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
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ATLAS
Third pick for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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Age of Water
Ranked #4 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Age of Water is an online adventure game set on a post-apocalyptic Earth completely covered in water. Sail through storms, fight and trade, capture other people's boats or build your own, extract resources from the bottom of the ocean and reveal the secrets of the Age of Water world.
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Sid Meier's Pirates!
Ranked #5 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. Shares RPG with both games.
Sail the Caribbean, marauding all on the high seas or ally your ship and crew as a privateer in search of riches - the life you choose is up to you. Face dogged enemies, raid unsuspecting villages, woo fair maidens, avoid capture or dig for buried treasure. Discover what it takes to become one of the most famous pirates in history!
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Rust
Ranked #7 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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Salt 2: Shores of Gold
Ranked #8 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.
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The Elder Scrolls® Online
Ranked #9 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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Out of Reach
Ranked #10 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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Salt
Ranked #11 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.
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Destiny 2
Ranked #12 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Destiny 2 is an action MMO with a single evolving world that you and your friends can join anytime, anywhere, absolutely free.
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No Man's Sky
Ranked #13 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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PixARK
Ranked #14 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
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Don't Starve Together
Ranked #15 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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Elite Dangerous
Ranked #16 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
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Skull and Bones
Ranked #17 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. Shares Action and RPG with both games.
Skull and Bones is an open world naval action RPG where ship combat, build choice, and sailing skill define your pirate legend. Conquer rival ships and mythical beasts in a vast ocean of up to 20 players.
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Subnautica
Ranked #18 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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Satisfactory
Ranked #19 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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ARK: The Survival Of The Fittest
Ranked #20 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
ARK: The Survival of the Fittest is a prototype spin-off of ARK: Survival Evolved, pitting up to 60 combatants against each other in a fast-paced, action-packed struggle for survival, where players are ultimately pushed into an epic final showdown leading their Dinosaur Armies into battle.
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Windward
Ranked #21 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Windward is an action-filled multiplayer sandbox game that puts you in control of a ship sailing the high seas of a large procedurally-generated world.
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Black Desert
Ranked #22 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Played by over 20 million Adventurers - Black Desert Online is an open-world, action MMORPG. Experience intense, action-packed combat, battle massive world bosses, fight alongside friends to siege and conquer castles, and train in professions such as fishing, trading, crafting, cooking, and more!
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The Forest
Ranked #23 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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The Isle
Ranked #24 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.