Games like PAYDAY 2 and The Forest
Looking for games like both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest 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 PAYDAY 2 and The Forest 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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PAYDAY 3
Top pick for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
PAYDAY 3 is the ultimate co-op FPS crime fantasy. Choose between stealth or loud playstyles, customize your character, and get ready to pull off the perfect heist.
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PAYDAY™ The Heist
Second pick for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest. Shares Action with both games.
Take on the role of a hardened career criminal executing intense, dynamic heists in constant pursuit of the next “big score”
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GTFO
Third pick for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest. 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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Dying Light
Ranked #4 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest. 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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Green Hell
Ranked #5 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest. 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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Left 4 Dead 2
Ranked #7 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest. 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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Crime Boss: Rockay City
Ranked #8 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest. Shares Action with both games.
Crime Boss: Rockay City is a 1-4 player co-op FPS heist game with enjoyable stealth and epic killing spree combat. Featuring a solo roguelike campaign that combines FPS and strategy elements with the most hilariously cheesy voice acting that make you laugh.
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Don't Starve Together
Ranked #9 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest. 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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Sons Of The Forest
Ranked #10 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest. 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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Subnautica
Ranked #11 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest. 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 #12 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest. 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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Left 4 Dead
Ranked #13 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest. Shares Action with both games.
From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.
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The Riftbreaker
Ranked #14 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
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No Man's Sky
Ranked #15 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest. 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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Escape from Tarkov
Ranked #16 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest. Shares Action and Simulation with both games.
Escape from Tarkov is the original extraction FPS where every raid is a gamble with death. Prep your raid, bleed, endure and fight through ruthless PMC players and Scavs, gain tactical advantage and cling to your loot — only extraction decides if you live or lose it all.
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How to Survive 2
Ranked #17 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest. 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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Crime Simulator
Ranked #18 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
You’re out of jail, but the debt isn’t gone. Sneak, steal, and break into houses solo or in 4-player co-op. Use lockpicks, sleeping gas, and brute force to complete jobs, outsmart security, and make enough money before time runs out. Will you pay back what you owe, or lose everything?
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Rust
Ranked #19 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest. 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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Back 4 Blood
Ranked #20 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest. Shares Action with both games.
Back 4 Blood is a thrilling cooperative first-person shooter from the creators of the critically acclaimed Left 4 Dead franchise. Experience the intense 4 player co-op narrative campaign, competitive multiplayer as human or Ridden, and frenetic gameplay that keeps you in the action.
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Grounded
Ranked #21 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest. 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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Zombie Survival Game Online
Ranked #22 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.
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Deep Rock Galactic
Ranked #23 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest. Shares Action with both games.
Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!
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State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
Ranked #24 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and The Forest. Shares Action and Simulation with both games.
The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.