Games like The Forest and Don't Starve Together
Looking for games like both The Forest and Don't Starve Together? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both The Forest and Don't Starve Together 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 The Forest and Don't Starve Together 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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Rust
Second pick for fans of both The Forest and Don't Starve Together. 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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Don't Starve
Third pick for fans of both The Forest and Don't Starve Together. 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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Green Hell
Ranked #4 for fans of both The Forest and Don't Starve Together. 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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Satisfactory
Ranked #5 for fans of both The Forest and Don't Starve Together. 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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Sons Of The Forest
Ranked #6 for fans of both The Forest and Don't Starve Together. 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 #7 for fans of both The Forest and Don't Starve Together. 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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No Man's Sky
Ranked #8 for fans of both The Forest and Don't Starve Together. 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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Grounded
Ranked #9 for fans of both The Forest and Don't Starve Together. 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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Starbound
Ranked #10 for fans of both The Forest and Don't Starve Together. 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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Project Zomboid
Ranked #11 for fans of both The Forest and Don't Starve Together. Shares Indie and Simulation with both games.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
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Conan Exiles
Ranked #12 for fans of both The Forest and Don't Starve Together. 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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Dig or Die
Ranked #13 for fans of both The Forest and Don't Starve Together. 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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Valheim
Ranked #14 for fans of both The Forest and Don't Starve Together. 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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Core Keeper
Ranked #15 for fans of both The Forest and Don't Starve Together. 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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7 Days to Die
Ranked #16 for fans of both The Forest and Don't Starve Together. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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Factorio
Ranked #17 for fans of both The Forest and Don't Starve Together. Shares Strategy and Indie with both games.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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ARK: Survival Ascended
Ranked #18 for fans of both The Forest and Don't Starve Together. 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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How to Survive 2
Ranked #19 for fans of both The Forest and Don't Starve Together. 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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Darkwood
Ranked #20 for fans of both The Forest and Don't Starve Together. 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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Dying Light
Ranked #21 for fans of both The Forest and Don't Starve Together. 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 Survivalists
Ranked #22 for fans of both The Forest and Don't Starve Together. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
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How to Survive
Ranked #23 for fans of both The Forest and Don't Starve Together. 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?
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State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
Ranked #24 for fans of both The Forest and Don't Starve Together. 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.