Games like Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved
Looking for games like both Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved share Action 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 Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved 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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Half-Life: Alyx
Top pick for fans of both Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.
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ARK: Survival Ascended
Second pick for fans of both Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved. 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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Half-Life
Third pick for fans of both Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Action with both games.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
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Black Mesa
Ranked #4 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Relive Half-Life.
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Valheim
Ranked #5 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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Subnautica
Ranked #6 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved. 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 #7 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved. 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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Green Hell
Ranked #8 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved. 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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Grounded
Ranked #9 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved. 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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Dinosaur World
Ranked #10 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Dinosaur World is a survival game about dinosaurs.
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How to Survive 2
Ranked #11 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved. 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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Dig or Die
Ranked #12 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved. 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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Dying Light
Ranked #13 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved. 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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Voidtrain
Ranked #14 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved. 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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BioShock™
Ranked #15 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Action and RPG with both games.
BioShock is a shooter unlike any you've ever played, loaded with weapons and tactics never seen. You'll have a complete arsenal at your disposal from simple revolvers to grenade launchers and chemical throwers, but you'll also be forced to genetically modify your DNA to create an even more deadly weapon: you.
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No Man's Sky
Ranked #16 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved. 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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Rust
Ranked #17 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved. 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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XERA: Survival
Ranked #19 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
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Left 4 Dead 2
Ranked #20 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Action with both games.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
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Crysis
Ranked #21 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Action with both games.
Adapt to Survive An epic story thrusts players into an ever-changing environment, forcing them to adapt their tactics and approach to conquer battlefields ranging from newly frozen jungle to zero-gravity alien environments. Suit up! A high-tech Nanosuit allows gamers to augment their abilities in real time on the battlefield.
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Rend
Ranked #22 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved. 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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Out of Reach
Ranked #23 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and ARK: Survival Evolved. 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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