Games like Don't Starve Together and Valheim
Looking for games like both Don't Starve Together and Valheim? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both Don't Starve Together and Valheim share Action, Indie, 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 Don't Starve Together and Valheim 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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Don't Starve
Second pick for fans of both Don't Starve Together and Valheim. Shares Indie and Adventure with both games.
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
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Rust
Third pick for fans of both Don't Starve Together and Valheim. 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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The Forest
Ranked #4 for fans of both Don't Starve Together and Valheim. 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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No Man's Sky
Ranked #5 for fans of both Don't Starve Together and Valheim. 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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Satisfactory
Ranked #6 for fans of both Don't Starve Together and Valheim. 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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Starbound
Ranked #7 for fans of both Don't Starve Together and Valheim. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
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Core Keeper
Ranked #8 for fans of both Don't Starve Together and Valheim. 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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Subnautica
Ranked #9 for fans of both Don't Starve Together and Valheim. 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 Don't Starve Together and Valheim. 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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Grounded
Ranked #11 for fans of both Don't Starve Together and Valheim. 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 #12 for fans of both Don't Starve Together and Valheim. 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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How to Survive 2
Ranked #13 for fans of both Don't Starve Together and Valheim. 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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Medieval Dynasty
Ranked #14 for fans of both Don't Starve Together and Valheim. 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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Conan Exiles
Ranked #15 for fans of both Don't Starve Together and Valheim. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
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ARK: Survival Ascended
Ranked #16 for fans of both Don't Starve Together and Valheim. 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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Voidtrain
Ranked #17 for fans of both Don't Starve Together and Valheim. 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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Enshrouded
Ranked #18 for fans of both Don't Starve Together and Valheim. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
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The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
Ranked #19 for fans of both Don't Starve Together and Valheim. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!
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Kenshi
Ranked #20 for fans of both Don't Starve Together and Valheim. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
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ARK: Survival Evolved
Ranked #21 for fans of both Don't Starve Together and Valheim. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
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Project Zomboid
Ranked #22 for fans of both Don't Starve Together and Valheim. Shares Indie and Simulation with both games.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
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Dying Light
Ranked #23 for fans of both Don't Starve Together and Valheim. 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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The Long Dark
Ranked #24 for fans of both Don't Starve Together and Valheim. Shares Strategy and Indie with both games.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.