Games like Anchor
If Anchor is your kind of game, the closest matches are Zeverland, Rust and Longvinter — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Anchor: Anchor is a large-scale underwater multiplayer survival game. Build your base, craft tools and weapons, explore, loot and prepare for battle. Every player is a potential threat in a persistent world where bases can be raided, alliances broken, and the ocean itself hunts you.
Players who liked Anchor also play
Steam players who put hours into Anchor also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Zeverland
WHY THIS
Top pick for Anchor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Anchor.
Welcome to Zeverland. Common sense is your best weapon against the Zeds. After figuring out the "not dying" part, grab some friends to save the world. Find a cure, build a rocket, or a tower too high for Zeds to climb. Nothing's off limits. You're here at the very start of the apocalypse. Go wild!
Rust
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Anchor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Anchor.
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.
Longvinter
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Anchor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Anchor.
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Crestfallen: Medieval Survival
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Anchor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Anchor.
👑 Hail to the King! In Crestfallen: Medieval Survival, players clash for dominance over the realm through strategic castle 🏰 building and fierce combat. Craft epic armor, forge deadly medieval weapons⚔️, and build a kingdom worthy of legend 📜. Create a Guild 🐉, trade goods, and prevail! 🌟
Out of Reach
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Anchor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Anchor.
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!
Wild Terra 2: New Lands
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Anchor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Anchor.
MMORPG full of details that create a unique immersion and the spirit of adventure! Play your role in the life-filled medieval world controlled by players.
Tree of Life
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Anchor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Begin a journey in the beautiful world! Build your own town anywhere and explore the myterious lands anytime. Nothing is impossible in the open world: Be a legendary warrior and 5-star chef at the same time!
Boundless
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Anchor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Anchor.
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Anchor.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Anchor.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Anchor.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Anchor.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
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Frequently asked about Anchor
- Does Anchor have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Anchor supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Anchor?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Anchor are Zeverland, Rust, Longvinter.
- Who developed Anchor?
- Anchor was developed by Fearem.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Anchor.
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