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Games like Phasmophobia and Valheim

Looking for games like both Phasmophobia and Valheim? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both Phasmophobia and Valheim share Action, Indie, Early Access 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 Phasmophobia 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.

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Shared genres:ActionIndieEarly Access

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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    Satisfactory — Steam game cover

    Satisfactory

    Top pick for fans of both Phasmophobia 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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    Grounded — Steam game cover

    Grounded

    Second pick for fans of both Phasmophobia 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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    The Forest — Steam game cover

    The Forest

    Third pick for fans of both Phasmophobia 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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    Subnautica — Steam game cover

    Subnautica

    Ranked #4 for fans of both Phasmophobia 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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    How to Survive 2 — Steam game cover

    How to Survive 2

    Ranked #5 for fans of both Phasmophobia 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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    Tribes of Midgard — Steam game cover

    Tribes of Midgard

    Ranked #6 for fans of both Phasmophobia and Valheim. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    A vibrant blend of survival and action RPG for 1-10 players! Craft legendary items, grow your home base and embark on an epic journey through procedural realms to face towering creatures hel-bent on unleashing Ragnarök. Valhalla can wait, Einherjar!  

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    Ghost Exorcism INC. — Steam game cover

    Ghost Exorcism INC.

    Ranked #7 for fans of both Phasmophobia and Valheim. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    Ghost Exorcism INC is a horror game where you can play alone, or in a team of up to 6 exorcists. Your mission will be to identify paranormal entities, and then exorcise them.

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    Terraria — Steam game cover

    Terraria

    Ranked #8 for fans of both Phasmophobia and Valheim. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

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    Palworld — Steam game cover

    Palworld

    Ranked #9 for fans of both Phasmophobia and Valheim. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

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    Voidtrain — Steam game cover

    Voidtrain

    Ranked #10 for fans of both Phasmophobia 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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    Dig or Die — Steam game cover

    Dig or Die

    Ranked #11 for fans of both Phasmophobia 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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    No Man's Sky — Steam game cover

    No Man's Sky

    Ranked #12 for fans of both Phasmophobia 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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    Don't Starve Together — Steam game cover

    Don't Starve Together

    Ranked #13 for fans of both Phasmophobia and Valheim. 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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    The Riftbreaker — Steam game cover

    The Riftbreaker

    Ranked #14 for fans of both Phasmophobia and Valheim. 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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    ARK: Survival Evolved — Steam game cover

    ARK: Survival Evolved

    Ranked #15 for fans of both Phasmophobia 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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    Core Keeper — Steam game cover

    Core Keeper

    Ranked #16 for fans of both Phasmophobia 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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    Green Hell — Steam game cover

    Green Hell

    Ranked #17 for fans of both Phasmophobia 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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    Niffelheim — Steam game cover

    Niffelheim

    Ranked #18 for fans of both Phasmophobia and Valheim. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    Your avatar is a brave warrior who has fallen in battle. But instead of well-deserved peace in Asgard, his soul is trapped in the harsh world of Niffelheim. Survive in this hostile world, ransack the neighbor lands, explore dangerous dungeons and find your way to Valhalla

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    Dawn of Defiance — Steam game cover

    Dawn of Defiance

    Ranked #19 for fans of both Phasmophobia and Valheim. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.

    You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.

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    The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ — Steam game cover

    The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™

    Ranked #20 for fans of both Phasmophobia 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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    Abiotic Factor — Steam game cover

    Abiotic Factor

    Ranked #21 for fans of both Phasmophobia and Valheim. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.

    Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

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    Descending The Woods — Steam game cover

    Descending The Woods

    Ranked #22 for fans of both Phasmophobia and Valheim. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    By day, tend to your farm, care for your pets, and explore the mysteries of the haunted woods. By nightfall, They will come from the woods, Beware of ghosts and demons of the haunted woods. Hide, Survive, Build, Fight and Explore in this eerie Survival Horror alone or with friends.

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    Enshrouded — Steam game cover

    Enshrouded

    Ranked #23 for fans of both Phasmophobia 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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    Road to Eden — Steam game cover

    Road to Eden

    Ranked #24 for fans of both Phasmophobia and Valheim. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    Road to Eden is a third-person multiplayer survival coop game, set within the post-apocalyptic ruins of a world destroyed by an alien invasion. You wake up at the side of the road with no memory and must team up with other survivors to make the long and dangerous journey to Eden.

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