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Games like The Forest and Wallpaper Engine

Looking for games like both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Each pick is scored by combining collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries — players who own The Forest and Wallpaper Engine 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.

The Forest — Steam game cover

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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    Green Hell — Steam game cover

    Green Hell

    Top pick for fans of both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine. 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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    Subnautica — Steam game cover

    Subnautica

    Second pick for fans of both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine. 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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    Satisfactory — Steam game cover

    Satisfactory

    Third pick for fans of both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine. 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 — Steam game cover

    Sons Of The Forest

    Ranked #4 for fans of both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine. 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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    Don't Starve Together — Steam game cover

    Don't Starve Together

    Ranked #5 for fans of both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine. 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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    Grounded — Steam game cover

    Grounded

    Ranked #6 for fans of both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine. 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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    Terraria — Steam game cover

    Terraria

    Ranked #7 for fans of both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

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    No Man's Sky — Steam game cover

    No Man's Sky

    Ranked #8 for fans of both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine. 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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    Darkwood — Steam game cover

    Darkwood

    Ranked #9 for fans of both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine. 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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    Rust — Steam game cover

    Rust

    Ranked #10 for fans of both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine. 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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    Core Keeper — Steam game cover

    Core Keeper

    Ranked #11 for fans of both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine. 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 — Steam game cover

    Voidtrain

    Ranked #12 for fans of both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine. 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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    Factorio — Steam game cover

    Factorio

    Ranked #13 for fans of both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine. 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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    Valheim — Steam game cover

    Valheim

    Ranked #14 for fans of both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine. 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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    Don't Starve — Steam game cover

    Don't Starve

    Ranked #15 for fans of both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine. 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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    Frost Survival VR — Steam game cover

    Frost Survival VR

    Ranked #16 for fans of both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine. Shares Indie and Adventure with both games.

    Sandbox Survival in VR. Face a frozen wilderness solo or in co-op - build a shelter, craft tools, hunt for food, and manage your resources to endure harsh conditions. Strategize your moves against unpredictable weather and lurking dangers. And remember to keep yourself safe and sane!

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    Dig or Die — Steam game cover

    Dig or Die

    Ranked #17 for fans of both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine. 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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    Green Hell VR — Steam game cover

    Green Hell VR

    Ranked #18 for fans of both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    Green Hell VR is an Open World Survival game set in the Amazon rainforest, based on the successful PC title Green Hell. You are left alone in the jungle with no food or equipment. To survive, you must learn real-life survival techniques, and crafting weapons can be a matter of life and death

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    ARK: Survival Evolved — Steam game cover

    ARK: Survival Evolved

    Ranked #19 for fans of both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine. 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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    Osiris: New Dawn — Steam game cover

    Osiris: New Dawn

    Ranked #20 for fans of both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    Osiris: New Dawn is an unforgiving near future space survival game with a cinematic feel and elements of horror. Play as a Mission Specialist in single or multiplayer to build your planetary base, pilotable vehicles, and controllable drones as you explore a dangerous solar system far from Earth.

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    Far Cry® Primal — Steam game cover

    Far Cry® Primal

    Ranked #21 for fans of both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine. 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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    Dinosaur World — Steam game cover

    Dinosaur World

    Ranked #22 for fans of both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    Dinosaur World is a survival game about dinosaurs.

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    Stardew Valley — Steam game cover

    Stardew Valley

    Ranked #23 for fans of both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine. 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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    7 Days to Die — Steam game cover

    7 Days to Die

    Ranked #24 for fans of both The Forest and Wallpaper Engine. 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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