Games like Outlast and Black Desert
Looking for games like both Outlast and Black Desert? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both Outlast and Black Desert 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 Outlast and Black Desert 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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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Top pick for fans of both Outlast and Black Desert. 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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Dying Light
Second pick for fans of both Outlast and Black Desert. 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 Elder Scrolls® Online
Third pick for fans of both Outlast and Black Desert. 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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DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2
Ranked #4 for fans of both Outlast and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2 builds upon the highly popular DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE with enhanced graphics that will further immerse players into the largest and most detailed Dragon Ball world ever developed.
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DESOLATE
Ranked #5 for fans of both Outlast and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
DESOLATE is a first person horror survival experience. Form a research team with up to 4 players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions, or do it all on your own.
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FINAL FANTASY XIV Online
Ranked #6 for fans of both Outlast and Black Desert. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with both games.
Join over 30 million adventurers worldwide and take part in an epic and ever-changing FINAL FANTASY. Experience an unforgettable story, exhilarating battles, and a myriad of captivating environments to explore.
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Outlast 2
Ranked #7 for fans of both Outlast and Black Desert. 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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The Forest
Ranked #8 for fans of both Outlast and Black Desert. 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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GTFO
Ranked #9 for fans of both Outlast and Black Desert. Shares Action with both games.
GTFO is a hardcore cooperative horror shooter that throws you from gripping suspense to explosive action in a heartbeat. Stealth, strategy, and teamwork are necessary to survive in your deadly, underground prison. Work together or die together.
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Throne and Liberty
Ranked #10 for fans of both Outlast and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Throne and Liberty captures the essence of classic MMORPGs while introducing new gameplay elements, depth and excitement at every turn. Gather your guild, prepare for battle, and set forth for throne... and liberty!
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New World: Aeternum
Ranked #11 for fans of both Outlast and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Experience a thrilling action RPG set on the supernatural island of Aeternum. Forge your destiny on an adventure filled with danger and opportunity.
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Secret World Legends
Ranked #12 for fans of both Outlast and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Secret World Legends is a story-driven, shared-world action RPG that plunges players into a shadowy war against the supernatural, where ancient myths and legends cross over into the modern day.
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Darkwood
Ranked #13 for fans of both Outlast and Black Desert. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
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The Evil Within 2
Ranked #14 for fans of both Outlast and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.
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Don't Starve Together
Ranked #15 for fans of both Outlast and Black Desert. 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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Mortal Online 2
Ranked #16 for fans of both Outlast and Black Desert. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Step into Nave, a vast fantasy sandbox world with a player-driven economy, persistent housing, and deep crafting systems. Engage in first-person, full-loot PvP combat with other players and perilous foes. Build, explore, and conquer in an unforgiving world. The land is yours—who will you become?
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The Evil Within
Ranked #17 for fans of both Outlast and Black Desert. Shares Action with both games.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
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EVE Online
Ranked #18 for fans of both Outlast and Black Desert. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.
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Metro: Last Light Redux
Ranked #19 for fans of both Outlast and Black Desert. 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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Alien: Isolation
Ranked #20 for fans of both Outlast and Black Desert. 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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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Ranked #21 for fans of both Outlast and Black Desert. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
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Guild Wars 2®
Ranked #22 for fans of both Outlast and Black Desert. Shares Adventure and Massively Multiplayer with both games.
Guild Wars 2 is an award-winning online roleplaying game with fast-paced action combat, deep character customization, and no subscription fee required. Choose from an arsenal of professions and weapons, explore a vast open world, compete in PVP modes and more. Join over 16 million players now!
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Life is Feudal: Your Own
Ranked #23 for fans of both Outlast and Black Desert. 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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PIONER
Ranked #24 for fans of both Outlast and Black Desert. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with both games.
PIONER drops players into a vast, grim world, where survival hinges on exploration, crafting, and smart resource management. As an MMO FPS, it offers both PvE missions and intense PvP zones, with unique crafting mechanics, hundreds of weapons and a deep story to explore.