Games like Open Country
If Open Country is your kind of game, the closest matches are Call of the Wild: The Angler™, Soulmask and The Gold River Project — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its build and manage camps, complete tasks for locals and explore serene wilderness. 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.
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Players who liked Open Country also play
Steam players who put hours into Open Country 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.
Call of the Wild: The Angler™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Open Country.
Top pick for Open Country fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Open Country.
The Angler is an open world fishing game that can be played solo or with friends. Discover and catch a wide variety of unique fish species, from common to rare, on your journey to become a master angler.
Soulmask
WHY THIS
Shares resource gathering, crafting and an atmospheric mood with Open Country.
Second-strongest match for Open Country fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Open Country.
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.
The Gold River Project
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Open Country.
Third-strongest match for Open Country fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Open Country.
The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.
Frost Survival VR
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and an atmospheric mood with Open Country.
Ranked #4 for Open Country fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Open Country.
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!
Saleblazers
WHY THIS
Shares crafting with Open Country.
Ranked #5 for Open Country fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Open Country.
Fight. Sell. Survive. Live off the land, build your perfect shop, and defend against nightly horrors in this open world survival shop simulator for 1-8 players.
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Open Country fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Open Country.
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.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Open Country.
Ranked #7 for Open Country fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Open Country.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Eden Island
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and an atmospheric mood with Open Country.
Ranked #8 for Open Country fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Open Country.
Eden Island is a beautiful survival game. As a survivor, you will explore and survive on a realistic tropical island, craft weapons against beasts, farm and hunt, build your own home.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Open Country at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Open Country on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Open Country.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Open Country on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Open Country.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Open Country on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Open Country.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Open Country on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Open Country.
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.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Open Country on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Open Country.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under Open Country on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Open Country.
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 ~80% under Open Country on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Open Country.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Open Country on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Open Country.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
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 Adventure with Open Country.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Open Country.
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 Adventure with Open Country.
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 Adventure with Open Country.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Open Country.
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!
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Open Country.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
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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.
Call of the Wild: The Angler™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Open Country.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Open Country.
The Angler is an open world fishing game that can be played solo or with friends. Discover and catch a wide variety of unique fish species, from common to rare, on your journey to become a master angler.
Saleblazers
WHY THIS
Shares crafting with Open Country.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Open Country.
Fight. Sell. Survive. Live off the land, build your perfect shop, and defend against nightly horrors in this open world survival shop simulator for 1-8 players.
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Open Country.
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.
Frequently asked about Open Country
- Is Open Country verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Open Country 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 Open Country cost?
- Open Country is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Open Country have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Open Country supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Open Country?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Open Country are Call of the Wild: The Angler™, Soulmask, The Gold River Project.
- Who developed Open Country?
- Open Country was developed by FUN Labs and published by 505 Games.
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 Open Country.
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