Games like Terraria
If Terraria is your kind of game, the closest matches are Don't Starve Together, Starbound and Rust — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its replayability is high, tactical positioning matters and writing quality is exceptional. 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 →Terraria is a procedurally generated 2D sandbox action-adventure that tasks players with mining, crafting, building, and battling through a massive world filled with boss encounters and progression milestones. Released in 2011 by Re-Logic, the challenging game features a hardmode transition that dramatically alters the world after certain boss defeats, alongside robust mod support that expands its already considerable content. Players describe the experience as immersive, with tactical positioning mattering significantly during combat encounters. Reviewers highlight the high replayability, driven by randomized world generation and numerous viable character builds. The game supports online cooperative multiplayer and runs verified on Steam Deck. At $9.99, it holds a 98% positive rating from over 590,000 Steam reviews.
About Terraria: Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Players who liked Terraria also play
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Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and boss fights with Terraria.
Top pick for Terraria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Terraria.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Starbound
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and procedural generation with Terraria.
Second-strongest match for Terraria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Terraria.
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...
Rust
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Terraria.
Third-strongest match for Terraria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Terraria.
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.
Necesse
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Terraria.
Ranked #4 for Terraria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Terraria.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Crea
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Terraria.
Ranked #5 for Terraria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Terraria.
Progress with every slain monster, learn over 80 skills through talents, craft hundreds of items, and explore vast procedurally-generated worlds in this ever-expanding sandbox RPG!
Conan Exiles
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Terraria.
Ranked #6 for Terraria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Terraria.
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.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Terraria.
Ranked #7 for Terraria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Terraria.
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!
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Terraria.
Ranked #8 for Terraria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Terraria.
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!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Terraria
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Terraria cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Terraria.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Terraria.
Reviewers of Terraria cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Terraria.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Terraria.
Reviewers of Terraria cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Terraria.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Terraria.
Reviewers of Terraria cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Terraria.
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?
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and an immersive mood with Terraria.
Reviewers of Terraria cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Terraria.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Terraria.
Reviewers of Terraria cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Terraria.
You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. Before you stands a war-torn, monster-infested continent you can explore at will. Your current contract? Tracking down Ciri — the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world.
Necesse
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Terraria.
Reviewers of Terraria cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Terraria.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and a challenging mood with Terraria.
Reviewers of Terraria cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Terraria.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Terraria at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Terraria on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Terraria.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Terraria on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Terraria.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Terraria on Steam right now. Shares Action with Terraria.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Terraria on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Terraria.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Terraria on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Terraria.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Terraria on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Terraria.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Terraria on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Terraria.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Terraria on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Terraria.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Terraria.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Terraria.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Terraria.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Terraria.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Terraria.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Terraria.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and boss fights with Terraria.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Terraria.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Necesse
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Terraria.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Terraria.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Terraria.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Terraria.
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!
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Terraria.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Terraria.
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!
Frequently asked about Terraria
- Is Terraria verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Terraria is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Terraria cost?
- Terraria is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Terraria have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Terraria supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Terraria?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Terraria are Don't Starve Together, Starbound, Rust.
- Who developed Terraria?
- Terraria was developed by Re-Logic.
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