Games like The Forest and The Sims™ 4
Looking for games like both The Forest and The Sims™ 4? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both The Forest and The Sims™ 4 share Adventure, Simulation 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 The Sims™ 4 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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The Sims™ 3
Top pick for fans of both The Forest and The Sims™ 4. Shares Simulation with both games.
The Sims 3: Create the perfect world with full customization at your fingertips. Refine personalities and help fulfill destinies.
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The Sims™ 2 Legacy Collection
Third pick for fans of both The Forest and The Sims™ 4. Shares Simulation with both games.
The game you know and love. For Windows 10/11. In The Sims 2, you direct your Sims over a lifetime. Give them a long existence, or leave their lives in shambles. Guide their characteristics from one generation to the next.
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Sons Of The Forest
Ranked #4 for fans of both The Forest and The Sims™ 4. 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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Stardew Valley
Ranked #5 for fans of both The Forest and The Sims™ 4. 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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Satisfactory
Ranked #6 for fans of both The Forest and The Sims™ 4. 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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The Sims™ Legacy Collection
Ranked #7 for fans of both The Forest and The Sims™ 4. Shares Simulation and Casual with both games.
The original game you know and love. For Windows 10/11. Create a neighborhood of Sims and guide their lives through careers and romance. Or create chaos with open-ended gameplay that lets you shape their destinies.
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My Time at Portia
Ranked #8 for fans of both The Forest and The Sims™ 4. Shares Indie and Adventure with both games.
Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!
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inZOI
Ranked #9 for fans of both The Forest and The Sims™ 4. Shares Adventure and Simulation with both games.
"Every life becomes a story" Create your unique story by controlling and observing the lives of 'Zois'. Customize characters and build houses using inZOI's easy-to-use tools to live the life of your dreams and experience the different emotions of life created by its deep and detailed simulation.
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Rust
Ranked #10 for fans of both The Forest and The Sims™ 4. 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 #11 for fans of both The Forest and The Sims™ 4. 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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Project Zomboid
Ranked #12 for fans of both The Forest and The Sims™ 4. 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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7 Days to Die
Ranked #13 for fans of both The Forest and The Sims™ 4. 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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Conan Exiles
Ranked #14 for fans of both The Forest and The Sims™ 4. 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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My Time at Sandrock
Ranked #15 for fans of both The Forest and The Sims™ 4. Shares Indie and Adventure with both games.
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
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RimWorld
Ranked #16 for fans of both The Forest and The Sims™ 4. 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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Core Keeper
Ranked #17 for fans of both The Forest and The Sims™ 4. 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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Voidtrain
Ranked #18 for fans of both The Forest and The Sims™ 4. 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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Valheim
Ranked #19 for fans of both The Forest and The Sims™ 4. 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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Medieval Dynasty
Ranked #20 for fans of both The Forest and The Sims™ 4. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
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ARK: Survival Evolved
Ranked #21 for fans of both The Forest and The Sims™ 4. 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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Soulmask
Ranked #22 for fans of both The Forest and The Sims™ 4. Shares Indie and Adventure with both games.
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
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The Front
Ranked #23 for fans of both The Forest and The Sims™ 4. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
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Life is Feudal: Your Own
Ranked #24 for fans of both The Forest and The Sims™ 4. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!