Games like The Forest and Valheim
Looking for games like both The Forest and Valheim? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both The Forest and Valheim 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 Valheim 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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Subnautica
Top pick for fans of both The Forest and Valheim. 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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Don't Starve Together
Second pick for fans of both The Forest and Valheim. 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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No Man's Sky
Third pick for fans of both The Forest and Valheim. 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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Green Hell
Ranked #4 for fans of both The Forest and Valheim. 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 #6 for fans of both The Forest and Valheim. 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 #7 for fans of both The Forest and Valheim. 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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Core Keeper
Ranked #8 for fans of both The Forest and Valheim. 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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Rust
Ranked #9 for fans of both The Forest and Valheim. 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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Sons Of The Forest
Ranked #10 for fans of both The Forest and Valheim. 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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The Riftbreaker
Ranked #11 for fans of both The Forest and Valheim. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
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ARK: Survival Evolved
Ranked #12 for fans of both The Forest and Valheim. 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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Medieval Dynasty
Ranked #13 for fans of both The Forest and Valheim. 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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Voidtrain
Ranked #14 for fans of both The Forest and Valheim. 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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Don't Starve
Ranked #15 for fans of both The Forest and Valheim. 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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Starbound
Ranked #16 for fans of both The Forest and Valheim. 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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Dig or Die
Ranked #17 for fans of both The Forest and Valheim. 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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Kenshi
Ranked #18 for fans of both The Forest and Valheim. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
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Enshrouded
Ranked #19 for fans of both The Forest and Valheim. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
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Whisper of the Swallows
Ranked #20 for fans of both The Forest and Valheim. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
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The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
Ranked #21 for fans of both The Forest and Valheim. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!
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The Survivalists
Ranked #22 for fans of both The Forest and Valheim. 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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Windrose
Ranked #23 for fans of both The Forest and Valheim. 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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How to Survive 2
Ranked #24 for fans of both The Forest and Valheim. 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.