Games like Terraria and ARK: Survival Evolved
Looking for games like both Terraria and ARK: Survival Evolved? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both Terraria 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 Terraria 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 Terraria 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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Don't Starve Together
Second pick for fans of both Terraria 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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Starbound
Third pick for fans of both Terraria and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
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No Man's Sky
Ranked #4 for fans of both Terraria 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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The Forest
Ranked #5 for fans of both Terraria 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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Rust
Ranked #6 for fans of both Terraria 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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Satisfactory
Ranked #7 for fans of both Terraria 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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Don't Starve
Ranked #8 for fans of both Terraria 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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Dig or Die
Ranked #9 for fans of both Terraria 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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Core Keeper
Ranked #10 for fans of both Terraria and ARK: Survival Evolved. 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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Subnautica
Ranked #11 for fans of both Terraria 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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How to Survive 2
Ranked #13 for fans of both Terraria 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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Crashlands
Ranked #14 for fans of both Terraria and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
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Grounded
Ranked #15 for fans of both Terraria 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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Valheim
Ranked #16 for fans of both Terraria and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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Stardew Valley
Ranked #17 for fans of both Terraria and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Indie and Simulation with both games.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
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Necesse
Ranked #18 for fans of both Terraria and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
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Voidtrain
Ranked #19 for fans of both Terraria 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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Green Hell
Ranked #20 for fans of both Terraria 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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Out of Reach
Ranked #21 for fans of both Terraria 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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Forager
Ranked #22 for fans of both Terraria and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
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RimWorld
Ranked #23 for fans of both Terraria and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Strategy and Indie with both games.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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Dinosaur World
Ranked #24 for fans of both Terraria and ARK: Survival Evolved. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Dinosaur World is a survival game about dinosaurs.