Games like ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine
Looking for games like both ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Each pick is scored by combining collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries — players who own ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine 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 Wallpaper Engine. 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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Satisfactory
Third pick for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine. 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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Rust
Ranked #4 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine. 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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Dinosaur World
Ranked #5 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Dinosaur World is a survival game about dinosaurs.
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The Forest
Ranked #6 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine. 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 #7 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine. 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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Voidtrain
Ranked #8 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine. 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 #9 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine. 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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Dig or Die
Ranked #10 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine. 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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Palworld
Ranked #11 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine. 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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Green Hell
Ranked #12 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine. 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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Life is Feudal: Your Own
Ranked #13 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine. 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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How to Survive 2
Ranked #14 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine. 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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Core Keeper
Ranked #15 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
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Medieval Dynasty
Ranked #16 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
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No Man's Sky
Ranked #17 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine. 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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Crashlands
Ranked #18 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
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Valheim
Ranked #19 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine. 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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The Survivalists
Ranked #20 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
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Don't Starve Together
Ranked #21 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine. 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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DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
Ranked #22 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.
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PixARK
Ranked #23 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine. 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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Out of Reach
Ranked #24 for fans of both ARK: Survival Evolved and Wallpaper Engine. 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!