Games like The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition
Looking for games like both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition 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 Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition 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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Windrose
Top pick for fans of both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
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Don't Starve Together
Second pick for fans of both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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Subnautica
Third pick for fans of both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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Rust
Ranked #4 for fans of both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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Green Hell
Ranked #5 for fans of both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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No Man's Sky
Ranked #6 for fans of both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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Out of Reach
Ranked #8 for fans of both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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Satisfactory
Ranked #9 for fans of both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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ARK: Survival Evolved
Ranked #10 for fans of both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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Grounded
Ranked #11 for fans of both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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Sid Meier's Pirates!
Ranked #12 for fans of both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. Shares RPG with both games.
Sail the Caribbean, marauding all on the high seas or ally your ship and crew as a privateer in search of riches - the life you choose is up to you. Face dogged enemies, raid unsuspecting villages, woo fair maidens, avoid capture or dig for buried treasure. Discover what it takes to become one of the most famous pirates in history!
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Conan Exiles
Ranked #13 for fans of both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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Sons Of The Forest
Ranked #14 for fans of both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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Skull and Bones
Ranked #15 for fans of both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. Shares Action and RPG with both games.
Skull and Bones is an open world naval action RPG where ship combat, build choice, and sailing skill define your pirate legend. Conquer rival ships and mythical beasts in a vast ocean of up to 20 players.
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Cultivation Tales
Ranked #16 for fans of both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Cultivation Tales is an open world survival craft online game. You will experience collecting, crafting, hunting, fighting, building, researching, in a wild mythical world. Fight for your clan and yourself, from mortal to divinity!
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Dying Light
Ranked #17 for fans of both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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Starbound
Ranked #18 for fans of both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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Voidtrain
Ranked #19 for fans of both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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Salt 2: Shores of Gold
Ranked #20 for fans of both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.
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Salt
Ranked #21 for fans of both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.
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7 Days to Die
Ranked #22 for fans of both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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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XERA: Survival
Ranked #23 for fans of both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
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Don't Starve
Ranked #24 for fans of both The Forest and Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. 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.