Games like Outlast and ARK: Survival Evolved
Looking for games like both Outlast and ARK: Survival Evolved? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both Outlast and ARK: Survival Evolved 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 Outlast 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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ARK: Survival Ascended
Top pick for fans of both Outlast 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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The Forest
Second pick for fans of both Outlast and ARK: Survival Evolved. 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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Dying Light
Third pick for fans of both Outlast 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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Subnautica
Ranked #4 for fans of both Outlast 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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Rust
Ranked #5 for fans of both Outlast 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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Green Hell
Ranked #6 for fans of both Outlast 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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Outlast 2
Ranked #7 for fans of both Outlast and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.
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Grounded
Ranked #8 for fans of both Outlast 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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Sons Of The Forest
Ranked #9 for fans of both Outlast and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Ranked #10 for fans of both Outlast and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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Alien: Isolation
Ranked #11 for fans of both Outlast and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Action with both games.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
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How to Survive 2
Ranked #12 for fans of both Outlast 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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Satisfactory
Ranked #13 for fans of both Outlast 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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No Man's Sky
Ranked #14 for fans of both Outlast 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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Don't Starve Together
Ranked #15 for fans of both Outlast and ARK: Survival Evolved. 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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Don't Starve
Ranked #16 for fans of both Outlast and ARK: Survival Evolved. 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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Metro: Last Light Redux
Ranked #17 for fans of both Outlast and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Action with both games.
It is the year 2034. Beneath the ruins of post-apocalyptic Moscow, in the tunnels of the Metro, the remnants of mankind are besieged by deadly threats from outside – and within. Mutants stalk the catacombs beneath the desolate surface, and hunt amidst the poisoned skies above.
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Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Ranked #18 for fans of both Outlast and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
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Voidtrain
Ranked #19 for fans of both Outlast 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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Dinosaur World
Ranked #20 for fans of both Outlast and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Dinosaur World is a survival game about dinosaurs.
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Far Cry® Primal
Ranked #22 for fans of both Outlast and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
The award-winning Far Cry franchise returns with its innovative open world gameplay, bringing together massive beasts, breathtaking environments, and unpredictable savage encounters. Welcome to the Stone Age, a time of danger and adventure.
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Conan Exiles
Ranked #23 for fans of both Outlast and ARK: Survival Evolved. 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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How to Survive
Ranked #24 for fans of both Outlast and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?