Games like The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2
Looking for games like both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2 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 The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2 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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Red Dead Online
Top pick for fans of both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Step into the vibrant, ever-evolving world of Red Dead Online and experience life in frontier America. Chase down bounties, battle outlaw gangs and other players, hunt, fish and trade, search for exotic treasures, run Moonshine, and much more to discover in a world of astounding depth and detail.
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Green Hell
Third pick for fans of both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2. 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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Don't Starve Together
Ranked #4 for fans of both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2. 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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Rust
Ranked #5 for fans of both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2. 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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Dying Light
Ranked #6 for fans of both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2. 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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Far Cry® Primal
Ranked #7 for fans of both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
The award-winning Far Cry franchise returns with its innovative open world gameplay, bringing together massive beasts, breathtaking environments, and unpredictable savage encounters. Welcome to the Stone Age, a time of danger and adventure.
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Subnautica
Ranked #8 for fans of both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2. 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 #9 for fans of both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2. 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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Satisfactory
Ranked #10 for fans of both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2. 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
Ranked #11 for fans of both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2. 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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How to Survive 2
Ranked #12 for fans of both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2. 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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Hunt: Showdown 1896
Ranked #13 for fans of both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2. Shares Action with both games.
Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the brutally rewarding extraction shooter. Track twisted monsters and overcome ruthless PvP. Take bounties in corrupted backwaters lost to history. With a team, you might survive. Die with nothing or get out with everything.
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Red Dead Redemption
Ranked #14 for fans of both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2. Shares Action with both games.
Experience the story of former outlaw John Marston as he tracks down the last remaining members of the notorious Van der Linde Gang in the PC debut of the critically acclaimed predecessor to Red Dead Redemption 2.
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Sons Of The Forest
Ranked #15 for fans of both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2. 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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Starbound
Ranked #16 for fans of both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2. 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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ARK: Survival Evolved
Ranked #17 for fans of both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2. 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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Palworld
Ranked #18 for fans of both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2. 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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Fallout: New Vegas
Ranked #19 for fans of both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2. Shares Action and RPG with both games.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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Valheim
Ranked #20 for fans of both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2. 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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7 Days to Die
Ranked #21 for fans of both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2. 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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Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced
Ranked #22 for fans of both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Experience entertainment blockbusters Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online — now upgraded for a new generation with stunning visuals, faster loading, 3D audio, and more, plus exclusive content for GTA Online players.
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Voidtrain
Ranked #23 for fans of both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2. 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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METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
Ranked #24 for fans of both The Forest and Red Dead Redemption 2. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Ushering in a new era for the METAL GEAR franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain, will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered tactical freedom to carry out open-world missions.